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Curious Case of Chingari app’s high Views and Likes
While testing short video apps in India, I noticed a very strange pattern with Chingari. I had 1M views and 82K likes with almost no real content. This blog details my findings.
Post my blog, inc42 did a followup and ncreased the number of apps tested
My WFH setup
Details of what I use and why in my WFH setup. Everything from standing desk to VC setup
The uselessness of Net Promoter score
A longish article analysing the research around Net promoter score: how it came about, claims made around its uses, and how research does not back its claims
How to test your product or startup hypothesis with a Fake door test:
Here I talk about a quick and dirty way to test if your product has a market. Great for startups and also sometimes for product managers who want data to back their hypothesis
Structuring your thoughts as a Product Manager
A short blog post on a need to structure your thoughts and break down the problem into multiple parts. For eg: I use a simple framework of “Creation, Curation, and Consumption”(CCC) when thinking about content businesses
Negative Signalling
To develop your career the way you want it to be, sometimes it is important to not be perceived good at stuff you do not want to do. Eg: I avoided project management and it helped me get better product management roles
Fallacy of Anecdotal evidence
A simple thought experiment using a the popular “stock tips” scam that shows how we are very susceptible to falling for rudimentary scams and how anecdotal evidence biases us
Future of work: My really old thoughts on how the future of work would look like
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- Disagreeing Online- Should you engage?
Is there a point in trying to move an online discourse in Paul graham’s hierarchy of disagreement - Owning the Problem and the Decision you didn’t make- as a Product Manager
If you want to be seen as the owner of that product area, it comes with taking ownership of all the decisions of the past, good, bad and the stupid. Here is how to do it - Stopping Thinking in Tweets
I used to love twitter, maybe too much.Ps: Now I am on Threads One of the reasons was not just because it seemed like a great place for content consumption but also a… Read more: Stopping Thinking in Tweets - Twitter Blue and the credibility crisis
As some of you already know Twitter was perhaps my most favorite social media website. I loved using Twitter, and was, and still am very active (Though reducing) I was excited when musk… Read more: Twitter Blue and the credibility crisis - The LLM: Your Friendly Neighborhood Word Predictor (and Occasional Hallucinator) – ChatGPT / BARD – Thoughts
Here are some unorganised thoughts about my rudimentary knowledge about LLMs Let’s first start with what an LLM (ChatGPT, BARD) , Large language model is, simply put, a model generated by feeding humungous… Read more: The LLM: Your Friendly Neighborhood Word Predictor (and Occasional Hallucinator) – ChatGPT / BARD – Thoughts - Right to Not train- Written by Human
Can AR rehman block you from being inspired by his music, can James cameron prevent you from making a movie that uses the narative structure of avatar? All Art is stolen, all innovation… Read more: Right to Not train- Written by Human
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