Over February and March this year, I spent a few weeks walking through India - part work, part wandering, part listening. In every conversation, every transaction, every quiet observation at the edges of the chaos, I found myself returning to one core truth: high touch will always, in the end, … [Read more...]
The Disappearance of the Technical Gatekeeper
There was a time - till very recent, in fact - when an idea by itself wasn’t enough. You could have the most compelling insight into human behaviour, the clearest understanding of a broken process, the most obvious gap in a market, and it still wouldn’t matter. If you couldn’t code, your idea … [Read more...]
You Don’t Need a Lawyer. You Need Better Prompts.
The Tehsil offices in Punjab do not move fast. Nothing is simple, everything takes time, and, of course, palms must be oiled. The professional working with us was doing what professionals in such situations often do: explaining to us why things were complicated, why delays were inevitable, why … [Read more...]
Rising Above the Mundane: A Call to Level Up Knowledge Work
To me, knowledge work has always felt like it held so much promise. A life spent solving problems, creating new ideas, shaping the future - what could be more fulfilling? But if I’m being honest, the reality hasn’t always lived up to that vision. For too long, knowledge work has been weighed … [Read more...]
Why Do We Only Listen When an Influencer Says It?
It’s baffling how often the simplest ideas go unnoticed until they’re said aloud by someone with a platform. You know the moment - the one where you’ve been mulling over a thought for ages, and then an influencer, a person with authority, articulates it, and suddenly, it’s like the light bulb … [Read more...]
Buying Canadian Isn’t Enough – We Need to Build Canadian and Back Our Builders
I’ve always believed that Canada is a country of builders. We don’t always make a big deal about it, but we have this quiet, determined way of solving problems. We innovate, we adapt, and we find workarounds when things don’t go as planned. But for all that resourcefulness, we don’t seem to own … [Read more...]
The Product Manager’s Dilemma: Escaping the Tactics Trap
I remember the first time I felt stuck as a Product Manager. I was deep in execution mode - writing specs, prioritizing features, jumping from meeting to meeting, making sure everything was on track. It felt productive. It felt necessary. And yet, something consistently ... felt off. No … [Read more...]
The Silent Erosion of Thought: How Unchecked AI Adoption is Rewiring Our Minds
I see it every day. Bright, capable students - sharp thinkers, ambitious professionals - turning to AI not as an assistant, but as an autopilot. They reach for ChatGPT before they reach for their own reasoning. They defer to algorithms before they trust their own analysis. They struggle to … [Read more...]
The Illusion of Responsibility: Who Should We Trust With Truth?
I don’t have children, nor do I blindly endorse social media or web-based businesses. But I’ve spent enough time reflecting on how profoundly these platforms affect and impact our children to know that the questions folks around me raise deserve a more thoughtful approach than either resignation or … [Read more...]
Dancing on the Edge of Intelligence: How AI Could Rewrite Humanity’s Story
When Geoffrey Hinton, often celebrated as one of the “godfathers” of artificial intelligence, raises the odds of humanity’s extinction due to AI, it’s more than a passing remark. In an interview with The Guardian, Hinton estimates a 10-20% chance that AI might wipe out humanity within the next three … [Read more...]