What didn't work: failing with 5 startups before not failing with one
May 28, 2020
Before Loki.ai became a financially sustainable venture, I failed with 5 startups. Here is what I learnt.
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I founded and am the CEO of Loki.ai - a provider of automation and analytics tools for Asia. I enjoy reading and running.
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Dealing with a cyber-attack: lessons learnt
May 6, 2020
We faced a major cyber-attack on 5th May. Here are the lessons we learnt.
Developing personal protocols for maintaining mental health
Dec 31, 2019
Over the last year, I tried to develop personal protocols to maintain my mental health and make it less sensitive to external events. This post contains a summary of these protocols.
Using Machine Learning to extract insights from customer names and images
Dec 19, 2019
Customer names and images have enormous predictive value, and can be used for a number of use cases in marketing, ecommerce, and sociology.
Using satellite data to track economic change in developing countries
Dec 02, 2019
Frequently updated satellite imagery can be used to track economic change at the macro- and micro-levels in developing countries
Dear Journalists, AI is coming for your jobs
Nov 03, 2019
Repetitive journalism will soon get automated, leading to both increased productivity and job losses
What's in a name? Plenty of possibilities for analytics.
Jul 28, 2019
Names can be used to estimate affluence, ethnicity, age, gender, religion, and more
Doing sales without being a jerk - lessons learnt
Jul 27, 2019
Add more value than you extract. Build real relationships. Follow up humanely
Great content does nothing in the face of bad strategy – lessons from The Content Trap
Jul 25, 2019
TL;DR: Superior content is great. Superior strategy is better.
Operationalizing DataViz – using sharp visual elements to create stories worth consuming
Jul 22, 2019
The most poorly read stories, it turns out, are often the most “dutiful” — incremental pieces, typically with minimal added context.
Why publishers must make their owned-and-operated platforms great again
Jul 22, 2019
Don’t ever tether your business to the benevolence of a third party. – Jim VandeHei, Co-Founder of Axios and Politico
Bootstrapping a data/API company in Asia from 0-80M+ requests in 2 years – lessons learnt
Jul 19, 2019
Lessons learnt while growing Loki.ai
Why sleep might be the biggest performance-enhancing substance – a summary of Why We Sleep
Jul 18, 2019
Lessons learnt from Matthew Walker's book Why We Sleep
Principles and Lessons from Peter Thiel's and Eric Weinstein's conversation on The Portal
Jul 17, 2019
Power-law distributions of talent, preference falsification, institutional betrayal, and other lessons from The Portal
Using data, machine learning, and recommendation systems to understand and engage media audiences
May 8, 2016
Companies can collect data about how readers are using their site and social media, and then use this information to drive content strategy and personalize offerings for users.
Creating better articles faster: here is how you can half the time for creating in-depth, interactive articles
May 8, 2016
Building in-house content-management systems can create significant impact for publishers and marketers.
Traditional Media is far from doomed, but only if product and editorial start having lunch together
May 6, 2016
How can traditional media companies, who built their reputations doing serious long-form journalism, compete with cat pictures and exploding watermelon videos that dominate the web?
Reimagining Media for the web (Part 1)
April 14, 2016
Most traditional media companies do not get the web. This post explains why.
Reimagining Media for the web (Part 2)
April 14, 2016
Most traditional media companies do not get the web. This post explains how they can start becoming better.
Strategic Self-Improvement – Becoming the best at what you do
November 8, 2013
After countless conversations and countless readings, I realized that success in any career is largely determined by whether you are one of the best at what you do.
Note to self
March 20, 2013
Every time you wallow in self-doubt, or in a sense of artificially-inflated self-worth, more sand slithers away to the wrong end of the hourglass.
University "Education"
February 20, 2013
If only [students] focused on what mattered, and realized that grades don't really matter.
Outliers
October 8, 2012
But shying away from variability actually reduces our chances of creating something radically better.