Aswath Krishnan

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How to Use Prompt Engineering to Rewire Your Brain

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Have you ever wondered what shapes your mind and behaviors? The influences that nudge us towards success or failure, happiness or despair? L...

Pareto Product Management

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As Product Managers or entrepreneurs, we often have multiple good ideas and an exciting vision. That's necessary but not sufficient.  It...

The new approach to building software with AI

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Traditional software simply executes explicit instructions provided by Human Intelligence. This blog is powered by software. And like most s...

Aha moments with GPT

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🤯 1)  I had my first "Aha! moment" with #ChatGPT / #LLMs in November 2022, just around when ChatGPT was released.I had asked Ch...

Human2023 -> Human100000: the Odyssey of Our Past and Future

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We have been talking about the progress of GPT (or ChatGPT) across versions 1 through 4. We measure them by the number of parameters, test s...

Air - an inspirational movie about how to make things happen

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I just watched Air, a fun and inspiring movie about how Nike, then an underdog in the shoe industry, managed to sign Michael Jordan, a rooki...

The Pipes of Information and Their Hold on Us

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Those who control the pipes of information, control the world.  It's a notion I have heard and generally agreed with. Humans are powerfu...

GPT-4 shares ideas on how to improve it

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I don't plan to fill my blog with AI-generated content but felt this was pretty interesting to share.  AI progress can accelerate expone...

Utopai

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An age of unparalleled peace, joy, love, creativity, and discovery for all of humanity. Fueled by an abundance of wisdom, resources, science...

Compulsive Thinking

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If you are an analytical person like me, you think a lot. You are compulsively problem-solving, analyzing, plotting, ideating, imagining, wh...

Part 2: Paul Graham, Sam Altman, Garry Tan, Jessica Livingston, and Michael Seibel on how to work on startup ideas (GPT generated)

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See Part 1 discussion on how to generate ideas here . This covers how to execute on ideas and how to take care of yourself Generated by Bing...

Part 1: Paul Graham, Mark Zuckerberg, and Sam Altman discuss principles for coming up with startup ideas (GPT generated)

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Generated by Bing GPT chat, with no edits.  This is a possible conversation between Paul Graham, Mark Zuckerberg, and Sam Altman where they ...

Important things can be boring, so make them fun

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A popular friend of mine once shared a trick to liven up any gathering.  "I just make up a game." He went on to demonstrate by mak...

Different game, different rules

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Couple of years ago, I reached out to a smart person to see if he wanted to invest in a friend's startup.  His response was quick and co...

Wait, What's the Problem?

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This is probably the most valuable question you can ask when working on anything. A very common failure mode for founders, PMs, software tea...

You are an artist and you need a canvas

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Four years ago, I spent $12 to register www.aswathkrishnan.com and then spent a few days on and off wrestling with Blogger to create a free ...

Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, and my favorite chore

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Most of us aren't fans of chores. So "favorite chore" sounds like an oxymoron and it's even surprising that billionaires d...

Languishing to Flowing

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Languishing Naming a problem or an uncomfortable emotion is a good first step towards overcoming it. This is why there was collective relief...

Simple but difficult

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Can something be simple but difficult? At first glance, that seems contradictory. But if you think on it, you'll realize many, many prob...

Deal with the devil

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I recently had an unpleasant experience on a deal with an organization that had an unscrupulous track record. In retrospect, I realize that&...

They Or Us

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I am outraged! Aren’t you? They are out there Saying lies   That defy us! Wait, wait   Who are they?   Who is us? Weren’t we all Just one? A...

Last lesson from my grandmother

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I went back to Chennai, my hometown, and visited my grandmother in December 2022. It had been a long four years since my previous visit and ...

Layoffs

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We are in the midst of a relentless wave of layoffs.  It's really sad how normal and mechanical it is becoming to business leaders, inve...

From Ordinary to Extraordinary: Reopening my eyes and heart to the wonder all around

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I had a life-changing epiphany on a recent excursion in the comforts of my own house and surroundings. It was a snow day. I bundled up and w...
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