The Slow Hunch

Intuition, gut-thinking, snap judgements get a bad rap in today's data hungry world. We think of intuition as something instantaneous. So, someone developing an intuition over a span of years - sounds like an idea I knew no name for. The Slow Hunch. In the book 'Where good ideas come from' by Steven Johnson, he …

Bullish on crypto

I am positive about cryptocurrencies on a 10+ year horizon. But when I talk about them, my arguments are not solid enough. So here I will try to articulate some reasons for the positive belief. Reason One:  Successful Role Models Fred Wilson, Chamath Pahilapithiya, and Peter Thiel, all of whom I look up to for …

Unicorns, Dragons and Galactic worlds

Yesterday I wondered if mythology and innovation were linked in a society. If Silicon Valley carries the mantle of being the most innovative place in the world today, it must have its mythology too. We can see it in use of mythical creatures like unicorns and dragons to denote, well, businesses. We can see how …

What happens in an exponential world

The world's population is growing like this: World GDP is growing like this: And GDP per person is growing like this: More and more people are getting (and probably will get) educated, to a higher and higher level: Scientific Output is increasing exponentially: And of course you already know about Moore's law. All of this …