Opinion

  • How Being Around Smart People Ignited a 3X Leap in My Growth

    How Being Around Smart People Ignited a 3X Leap in My Growth

    How the combined genius of photographers, writers, and entrepreneurs helped me harness my potential and helped me find my place. When my English teacher said, “You’re not smart. You hang out with smart people and create an image that you’re smart” it hurt. I was fourteen. I was making a funny comment during the class…

  • Why mediocrity succeeds, and high performance doesn't!

    Why mediocrity succeeds, and high performance doesn't!

    Your comfort food or go-to place for a drink isn’t some fancy place that has a thousand 4.7-star reviews. It’s always that place with thirty 3.5-star reviews. Why! We go to the same restaurants, use the airline service, and call the same handyman not because they’re great. It’s because they’re average, and they’ve been consistently…

  • Liabilities are good in low doses

    Liabilities are good in low doses

    I recently attended a financial planning workshop and the hosts kept talking about “liabilities” and how they’re bad for us. There are two misconceptions about the word “liability”. One is they’re always mapped to loans and other financial commitments. Second? Liabilities are considered bad and are asked to be kept out of one’s life. I…

  • How much AI is 'too much' AI?

    How much AI is 'too much' AI?

    Today, AI can do pretty much anything. It can write stories, create images, mimic your voice in a video or a podcast, generate summaries, etc. You name it and AI can do it. AI tools made life easy for so many content creators and businesses. Apart from being used in businesses, AI has also found…

  • Web3 Doesn’t Have a Future Unless It Excites People Like You and Me

    Image generated with Midjourney The success of any technology lies in its adoption numbers. For that to happen people should see value in it – even from the initial days. Also, the excitement of the early adopters should be contagious to the people who come after them, and the crucial part is the people who…