Kaushal Dave

AI and Decision Science Leader at Amazon.

[Kaushal Dave @DecisionIntell]

Noah Lyles won the men's 100m final at the 2024 Paris Olympics with a time of 9.784 seconds, beating Kishane Thompson by just 0.005 seconds (9.789 seconds). A win by 5000th of a second. That's 20 times faster than the blink of an eye! It takes about 0.01 seconds for you to feel something when lightly touched. Lyles' winning margin was half of that time! #Paris2024 #100M #OlympicGames #Olympics2024Paris

[Kaushal Dave @DecisionIntell]

Massive thanks to you all! I've hit my fundraising target! Please take a look at my #JustGiving page to find out what I’m doing and why - https://t.co/J2r3CuAQRz

[Kaushal Dave @DecisionIntell]

I'm fundraising for @BAPSCharities in the #UnitedKingdom to help create better communities, nations and ultimately a more peaceful and just world. Check out my @JustGiving page and please donate if you can. Thank you!
https://t.co/MfUS4y85Fi

[Kaushal Dave @DecisionIntell]

Honorable @RishiSunak, it was a privilege to welcome and meet you and Mrs. Sunak at the @BAPS Swaminarayan Hindu Mandir in Neasden, UK! May the tranquility and values of our sacred space guide your leadership and decision-making for the betterment of the United Kingdom. #RishiSunak #UKPolitics #IndianDiaspora #HinduHeritage #LeadershipWithValues #Elections2024

[Kaushal Dave @DecisionIntell]

@panos_panay we should certainly try this for @amazon devices Operations and #SupplyChain. #decisionintelligence .. I'll send a direct chime to you and the team :)

[Aera Technology @Aera_Technology]

We are proud to announce our expanded Test Drive program, allowing enterprises to see the value of #DecisionIntelligence in weeks. Stop by booth 800 at #GartnerSC Orlando to learn more. https://t.co/kTADeZzoh4

[Adam Selipsky @aselipsky]

.@awscloud is investing an additional $9 billion (SG$12B) into our cloud computing infrastructure in Singapore. Our investments are expected to support over 12K jobs a year, and contribute $17.6 billion (SG$23.7B) to Singapore’s GDP by 2028.

We also announced a new flagship #AI program in collaboration with the Singapore Government and government agencies to help enterprises, startups, and communities accelerate their adoption of AI & generative AI.

The program will support AI research and development, and includes a series of AI and professional certification programs to train 5,000 people a year on AI skills over the next three years. https://t.co/13HYdbJ0Bi

[Adam Selipsky @aselipsky]

When you open that next order from @amazon, check out the packaging. An #AI model powered by @awscloud likely played a key role in picking the most efficient packaging option for your purchase. Behind the scenes at our operations sites, our Package Decision Engine uses natural language processing and text-based data from each item Amazon sells, along with computer vision pictures that provide product dimensions. All that info helps the model predict the more sustainable packaging to use while still protecting the items. As we expand this innovation globally, the Package Decision Engine will help Amazon avoid excess packaging in more places than ever before. https://t.co/vTUC3kpSGl

[Adam Selipsky @aselipsky]

Claude 3 Opus, the powerhouse AI model from @AnthropicAI, is now available on Amazon Bedrock.

Opus can tackle highly complex tasks with remarkable fluency, and has the ability to navigate open-ended scenarios with human-like understanding. Bedrock is the easiest and most secure place to get started with gen AI, and now provides even more options for customers who need the ability to choose the right model for their use case.

Claude 3 Opus early benchmarks show it outperforming peers, including GPT-4, on expert knowledge, reasoning, and math tasks. Check out the new model in action in the Bedrock console, and let us know what you think. https://t.co/lpZiMSaluh

[Kaushal Dave @DecisionIntell]

Thrilled to share a moment with @aselipsky, CEO of Amazon Web Services (@awscloud), today! It’s not every day you get to meet a leader who is not only steering one of the world’s most innovative companies but also deeply involved in enhancing AWS's #supplychain capabilities.

Thank you, Adam, for your commitment and for a great conversation today. Looking forward to seeing how AWS continues to lead and innovate in this space! #AWS #Leadership #Innovation #Amazon

[Kaushal Dave @DecisionIntell]

At Amazon, we measured traffic to the Amazon website on eclipse day, April 8, during the roughly four-hour passage of the eclipse across the US using the first three digits of a zip code. Our hypothesis was that during the eclipse, people would pause their daily routines (including online shopping) to go outside and look at the sky. Comparing our eclipse-day traffic measurements to a baseline level, measured from prior, non-eclipse dates, confirmed our hypothesis. https://t.co/URoFGIVf8V

[BAPS Hindu Mandir @AbuDhabiMandir]

THE LETTER: The Handwritten Destiny of Abu Dhabi Mandir

After four years, a historic letter that foretold the destiny of the first traditional temple in the Middle East is revealed.

🎬 Watch here: https://t.co/7WRbRU5T5J

[Lulu Cheng Meservey @lulumeservey]

A lot of people dunking on this, but going on TV is hard. Most founders have had interviews they flubbed.
Usually for the same 3 reasons:

(1) weak elevator pitch (below I suggest a better one)
(2) didn’t prep for the TV format
(3) forgot the audience

Quick points on each:

(1) ELEVATOR PITCH
Before your company even launches, you need to be able to clearly say what you do and why it matters. That was the first and most important question here too. The biggest mistake is leading with the backend: it’s built with AI, it’s built on blockchain, whatever, consumers don’t care. That’s how web3 ended up with the “no use case” meme.
That’s like if Google’s pitch were, “We’re built using C++.”

You have to start with benefits — how does it make the user’s life better? In this case, maybe it’s:

“Have you ever seen someone spoil a moment by taking out their phone? So imagine you’re at dinner with friends. Humane can translate a menu, take a video, settle a debate, or prioritize incoming messages, all without interrupting the experience.”
(And I would do a whole campaign around people ruining the moment by taking a phone out)

Sell benefits, not backend.

(2) TV FORMAT
You’ll get only a few minutes and it ends abruptly. Your first answer needs to be tight and punchy, and it should end where you want the next question to pick up. Time is short, so every long answer, unclear answer, or answer that requires a followup is wasted opportunity cost — that’s 30 seconds you could’ve spent convincing users to go buy a Humane.

You should get the the most important messages out first, so you won’t have regrets if you get cut off later. But you have the benefit of video to do a demo and connect with the audience to build trust — take advantage of this.

(3) THE AUDIENCE
It’s unclear but I’m guessing the target audience for Humane is users and maybe potential hires. If so, then consider the Venn overlap between that audience and the audience of Squawk Box. Let’s say you end up with “well-off coastal millennials who want to be early adapters for social signaling but aren’t technical experts” (again I’m just making this up for an example).

If that’s the case, everything you say on the show should be geared toward them, eg:
- explain what Humane does in simple, not overly technical, terms
- show how sleek it is, point out how it’ll amaze your friends
- emphasize how it’s perfect for families with young kids because you can capture moments or learn together without having to introduce screen time, etc.

Going on TV is hard, and founders should get kudos for just doing it. This was a great opportunity — big show, respected hosts, and zero hostility or skepticism, very friendly interview.

The next founders who get an opportunity like this can take advantage of it to grow their company by doing the three things above.

[Kaushal Dave @DecisionIntell]

Streaming live on:
https://t.co/GlkXJsDQAU
** Sunday, October 8, 2023
** 4:45pm - 8pm ET (New York) Experience the grand dedication ceremony of #BAPS Swaminarayan #Akshardham, a landmark of Hindu architecture & culture. The breathtaking Mahamandir and other features on the 185-acre campus in Robbinsville, NJ, #USA were built by 12,500 volunteers, who devoted millions of hours of selfless service. #SanatanaDharma
#architecture

[Kaushal Dave @DecisionIntell]

Experience the grand dedication ceremony of #BAPS Swaminarayan #Akshardham, a landmark of Hindu architecture & culture.
The breathtaking Mahamandir and other features on the 185-acre campus in Robbinsville, NJ were built by 12,500 volunteers, who devoted millions of hours of selfless service.
Streaming live on:
https://t.co/GlkXJsDQAU
Sunday, October 8, 2023
4:45pm - 8pm ET (New York)

[Kaushal Dave @DecisionIntell]

Eleven thought traps most commonly affect us at work—and you can escape each in specific ways. https://t.co/ZpYcp8uKhe #procrastination #anxiety #leadership

[Nat Eliason @nateliason]

Prove you can do hard things

When a teenager asks why they need to learn calculus, what should you say?

You know they will never use it in adulthood, outside of certain career choices.

You could say, “It’ll help you get into college,” but then they’re left wondering why college cares if you know calculus.

And once they’re in college, maybe you could say, “To get a good job,” but why would a potential hirer care how you did in multivariate calculus if your job doesn’t require any knowledge of calculus?

But I recently realized there is a very good reason to take Calculus. It’s to prove you can do hard things.

The ability to do hard things is perhaps the most useful ability you can foster in yourself or your children. And proof that you are someone who can do them is one of the most useful assets you can have on your life resume.

Our self-image is composed of historical evidence of our abilities. The more hard things you push yourself to do, the more competent you will see yourself to be.

If you can run marathons or throw double your body weight over your head, the sleep deprivation from a newborn is only a mild irritant.

If you can excel at organic chemistry or econometrics, onboarding for a new finance job will be a breeze.

But if we avoid hard things, anything mildly challenging will seem insurmountable.

We’ll cry into TikTok over an errant period at the end of a text message. We’ll see ourselves as incapable of learning new skills, taking on new careers, and escaping bad situations.

The proof you can do hard things is one of the most powerful gifts you can give yourself.

My goal with our kids is to avoid lying to them as much as possible.

I won’t tell them that calculus is super important or even that grades are super important. The truth is, they aren’t, so long as you have other plans.

Calculus is a great way to prove you can do hard things if you have no other proof to show.

But if you’re learning programming and building apps in your free time, or winning soccer championships, or writing a novel, then you are doing hard things. Probably harder than Calculus.

This is also why there’s so much survivorship bias and bad advice in the “C students hire A students” trope. Most C students are not doing other hard things instead of school. They’re just goofing off, so they end up working for the A student.

But some C students are getting C’s because they’re obsessed with other projects. Hard projects. And that obsession with doing hard things lets them blow past their Excellent Sheep peers over time.

So if you have a C student who’s obsessed with something hard, you probably don’t have to worry. If they’re getting high and watching TikTok, well…

I don’t particularly care what grades my kids get once they start school. But I do care that they consistently prove to themselves they can do hard things. If Calculus is how they want to do it, fine, but there are many, many more options.

And if you’re not someone who knows they can do hard things, find a way to prove it to yourself.

Build a habit, learn a skill, create something, whatever it is that turns your default stance on challenges from “that seems hard” to “I can figure it out.”

Create proof you can do hard things.

[Kaushal Dave @DecisionIntell]

Knowing what's causing us to procrastinate can help overcome it. These are all #procrastination styles.
1) the perfectionist - everything has to be perfect. It takes too much energy to get there - can't start.
2) the dreamer - doesn’t like the nitty-gritty logistical details often needed to get projects done. They like to have ideas - can't start
3) the worrier - indecisive and dependent on others for advice or reassurance before taking initiative on their own - can't start
4) the defier - view life in terms of what others expect or require them to do, not what they want. This pessimism diminishes their motivation to complete tasks - can't start
#coaching #lifestyle #leadership @amazon