80 million people watched the Chandrayaan live stream. That undoubtedly was an unparalleled moment ushering so many of us into a frenzy of collective pride, community & nationalism. But an interesting thing caught my attention: Google Trends for Chandrayaan spiked from 0 to 100% and then fell to ~30% all…

When the 2nd Industrial Revolution started, global textile & steel industry employed ~2 million people. These people were the hardest hit by industrialization. They only saw gloom & doom now that businesses replaced people with machines. ~70 years later, today, both these industries employ ~80 million people globally. Going by…

From day 1 we have been focused on building the best software while remaining cost competitive. Sharing some of the simple IT project management best practises with you that are now saving us about ~26% of software development time & costs. As a result we are now able to pass…

Advancement is survival on steroids. Too much of steroids too fast can sometimes be harmful. The case of the AI is in the same category today. With one extra problem: The damage is self sustaining. Here is why: The AI systems derive their strength from the following 3 mathematical frameworks: …

Abstract For various reasons, the performance of a machine learning/artificial intelligence model once deployed can lag far behind the training performance. These range from having biases and variations in data, to unidentified assumptions to improper hyper parameter usage. Since such instances are a direct loss to the investments made, and…

The more one looks at different businesses, countries, people, the quicker one culminates to a single conclusion — that those who beat the competition, grew their quality of life, rose higher, and lasted longer, were simply doing a simple thing. They were building for the future. Let us look at…

Change is the only constant. Even the nature of competition changes over time. How people competed yesterday is different than how they compete now. And it will be different tomorrow. Here is a quick study of the nature of competition — personal, social, or business. The nature of low competition …

According to PWC, the estimated cost for RBI to manage old bank notes over a 5-year period between 2016 till 2021 was around 4.5 lakh crores. As per the World Bank, India is the world’s largest recipient of remittances as it received $87 billion in 2021 with the United States…

Having a self-motivated team that goes the extra mile for the customer is vital to scaling a business. I wanted to know how it’s done as we scaled our custom software development business at itmtb. In search of the answers, I turned to the most unusual places that have a…