In Search of Divine

I want to share my predictions for 2035, primarily out of curiosity. My goal is to look back on this post and see how many of these predictions came true. This exercise isn’t just fun—it’s also a way to optimize my judgment, much like how an AI model fine-tunes its parameters based on data. Similarly, I aim to refine my thinking by comparing it to the reality of 2035. Admittedly, making bold predictions is risky, as it’s a form of “standing out,” something Jordan Peterson cautions against in his "Zebra Story." If you haven’t heard it, I highly recommend watching "The Zebra Story | Jordan Peterson" . For context, I often jokingly refer to the internet as God with my friends and family. We call it "Dev" or "Bhagwan" in Hindi. If the internet is God or "Dev", then AI is its amplified form—a “Mahadev”. In mathematical terms, if the internet is f(x) , then AI is 10^f(x) . This isn’t to say there’s nothing more powerful coming, but for now, A...

To understand the root cause of any situation, drilling with "5 whys" is my default approach. When I am curious and doing this exercise in my mind, I am not sure about counting the number of whys, to be frank. The "5 whys" is pretty much a natural flow of questioning that I've been doing without much effort for years.  Recently I was having a conversation and we were discussing how to change an outcome. This question was a trigger for me to think about the process of decision-making without our minds and how it leads to an outcome. Let me try to put my thoughts in a structured way. Imagine a machine that takes inputs and gives an output. And it has various stages in between. Our mind is this machine. The stages are Inputs, Enhancing the Inputs, Judgement, Decision, Action, Outcome and Experience. Let's understand each of these seven stages. Stage 1: Inputs     This stage represents the raw inputs that the mind is receiving. It can come from many sources the ...

It's surprising how human communication is so flawed and no one is paying attention to fix it at the fundamental level.  Just like the languages in Technology are evolving, well so should our human language. But sadly the language we use daily, to get by, isn't evolving to simplify our needs. We do introduce new slang and some words to our vocabulary every year but that doesn't help much.  Because of this oftentimes it's not that the answers don't exist, it's just that we aren't asking the right question. And this is true when it comes to asking questions to a computer or a family or friends or colleagues etc. Even media houses seem to be intentionally ignoring this and becoming more of an entertainment+ gossip propagator instead of helping society find answers and evolve. Let me give you an example. Let's say we want to know an answer to: How do I lose weight? Well, the default behavior is we stop here and immediately start looking for answers. But inst...

 Introduction     During my usual quiet walk, a thought occur and engulfed me. And I kind of lost myself for some time in it. It was a meaningful thought. It was powerful, a shift in perspective, something I foresee will prove helpful in the future when I re-read it. So I have decided to jot it down here for my future self and share it with others as well. Let me try to explain it in as simple words as I possibly can.     The human population just crossed the 8 billion mark. We can categorize all of us in many, many ways including religion, race, nationality, age, gender, height, weight, color, wealth, IQ, etc But these are inherently divisive. It doesn't do a good job of showing us the commonality among us. Well, from the fundamental point of view, we are all one (a mixture of five elements) but how many of us truly experience it? I am not interested in just saying it.      Being honest, being candid I can't ignore but notice a division the momen...

Need a favor! I will not have asked unless it was urgent and required. So please I do expect your full support in return 🙏 Why?  What's Happening?  We have taken up a fight against all the big whales. It’s been a couple of years and the fight is getting intense. The market is tough because of Covid-19, the Ukraine war & the inflation in the USA. And of course, the whales are not liking it any better that we are trying to bring down their prices. So basically, I and my team at BillTrim are swimming against the tide 🏊‍♂️ and need a tonne of support to make it to the shore safely. We have recently pivoted our business model from trimming your bills and charging 25% to something quite more appealing & committed called " BillPay ". Now, we not only negotiate your bills but also keep tabs monthly to make sure they stay lean and paid on time. This is another step towards our goal of having BillTrim be free for all users. We have finally decided to get into fight mode a...

  I am sure all of us have read & hear the law of conservation of energy a hundred times. It states that “energy can neither be created nor destroyed - only converted from one form of energy to another”.  I recently had a similar insight which is worth both noting down and sharing.  While introspecting the fluctuations with the emotion of “Love” between me and my parents, me and my wife, me and my kid, me and my friends, me and my country, etc suddenly it clicked to me that the resource of “Love” is limited within me. Let me explain:  We identify each other via a name, gender, location, country of citizenship, religious belief, etc but subconsciously each one of us is basically a bundle of emotions that define us as who we are. The amount of each of the emotions varies and hence the character and personalities variance among us. I am me and you are you because we have different amounts of emotions within us.  I soon realized that to find the right an...

During a recent Skype meeting with one of our lead developer, I heard him say "what if we have 100 times ... " Now don't get me wrong, I have been there and done exactly the same, various time myself. But not having been involved directly, gifted me an opportunity to look at the software development process a bit objectively, over the past year. And I have come to this, unshaken realization, which is to "stop daydreaming on SCALE" and consequently make costly assumptions that will leave its ripple effects throughout the project. Unnecessary "Tech Debt" in other words. Imagine a 10-year kid planning on opening a lemonade factory after selling just 10 lemonade, of which 5 are bought by own family and friends. This is not only naive but also super dangerous thought that developers think of more than they should, especially, young ones. I will like to remind and request all startup developers to remember a principle namely "Do Things that Do...