@deepigoyal Thanks for the detailed data backed facts.
Can you incentivise delivery partners to follow traffic rules? They often ride on the wrong side of the road and skip traffic lights risking not just their life but others as well.
Kinda obvious next step from Insta.
The problem? Insta works because you peak into friends/celebs’ lives and sharing your own. Filtered yes but still real life.
Strip away the human angle, drop the barrier to entry, and it stops being social. It’s just AI slop on autoplay.
I write this as an optimist. Over the last 20+ years since the Indian economy opened up, we’ve been closing the gap between us and the western nations. That gap is widening once again, thanks to AI. We are at a point in the global innovation cycle that it is clear to me what has brought India so far won’t take us much further. We need to rethink our approach to entrepreneurship and investing if we are to compete. Below is a short diagnosis, and a strawman proposal ⬇️
We’ll soon be working 90 hour work weeks but for not the reason some IT sweatshop’s CEO thinks.
There will be AI agents who will automate majority of daily grunt work leading to increased productivity.
You can stare at who ever you want.
It’s confusing to be Indian today.
Huge young population confused on the dire state of institutions.
Low trust society with differences across political, social, caste, religious and geographical lines.
Very few things which binds us together. Cricket is one.
What else?
Each day is a cruel reminder of the fact that India has heat like Arab countries, infrastructure like sub-Saharan Africa, work culture like East Asia, taxes like Europe- to get air and water quality like Delhi.
The only thing we can take pride is in our Healthcare system which is destined to collapse, given the quality of lives we lead & the burden on it that will follow.
Thank you Rohit Shetty, Bollywood hotshots, 7 writers and producers for burning 350 crore so that we can get such reviews!
You bring the best in Rahul Desai out.
Computer scientists and AI researchers can now win in Nobel in any of the fields be in Physics, Chemistry or Biology.
AlphaFold is one of those rare breakthroughs which could change humanity forever.
BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in Chemistry with one half to David Baker “for computational protein design” and the other half jointly to Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper “for protein structure prediction.”
Most major Indian cities are shit for tourists.
Only way to travel across India as foreigners is to hire private tours with dedicated taxis, local friend or guide to navigate through all the chaos.
This is how local elites also survive.
In a closed bubble of their own.
India had ONLY 1.5M foreign tourists for leisure in 2023, excluding Bangladesh.
That’s rank ~85, less than the Philippines and Botswana!
The sad reality is if you filter out ProudIndians™’ views, people think India is worse than even poorer and younger developing nations.
Kamra exposing Ola could be the Mkbhd calling out Fisker moment.
Remember it is not the person who triggered it is responsible but the company itself who failed at many levels including building a great product, customer support and managing their PR.
While I appreciate Beerbiceps’ hustle to get Naval on the pod.
But the questions were just subpar. The urge to get validated by foreigners about our Indian-ness and religion just doesn’t end.
Naval didn’t share anything new and dismissed many topics as uninteresting.
The biggest challenge is to deploy any sort of intelligence to the farthest corners of the world and to solve the right problems.
Not to keep it confined to only the riches and to create tools to get quicker dopamine hits.