7 hours agoMember-onlyStreamvolution: The Art and Science Behind Netflix’s Unrivaled Video Encoding MasteryDecoding the Secrets Behind Netflix’s Unrivalled Streaming Ecosystem In the fiercely competitive landscape of streaming services, Netflix has managed to hold onto its crown as the undisputed champion. It is slipping though – I won’t lie 🤪. They are trying to make a comeback – so all power to them. One of the core secret sauces behind this…Innovation3 min readInnovation3 min read
Jan 30Innovation Newsletter 1st Edition: “Unmanned AI-Powered Lunch Delivery System that Connects Restaurants to Office Pantries via Hyperloop Tubes”Beginning the hope of consistently enabling operators to experiment with new things to deliver to my purpose — creation of jobs and purpose for others — Usual Initial “Foreword” (because Shubbankar thinks others care oh so much about what he thinks, lol !!) I have started a newsletter on LinkedIn to share ideas and my ludicrous optimism as I would like to call it. This is so that established companies as well as aspiring entrepreneurs see opportunities in new ventures — thus creating jobs which will in turn create livelihood — which will…Innovation5 min readInnovation5 min read
Sep 11, 2022Member-only3 Startups founded last week (Vol.1)Dexla, PipeClose and Technicaly — Trying to give a brief overview of recent startups. I know I have tried to start a series like this before as well and failed to continue to product content. I am hoping this time it will be different. My objective with this series and most of the writing I…Startup7 min readStartup7 min read
Sep 2, 2022Member-onlyAn example of what the AI community is lacking and how can you learn from it?A positive discovery but a startling negative that this had not been looked into so far Long story short — “engineers at the company DeepMind built a machine-learning system based on research on how babies’ brain works, and it did better on certain tasks than its conventional counterparts”. While this…Artificial Intelligence6 min readArtificial Intelligence6 min read
Aug 13, 2022Member-onlyUber may have made the wrong call in unifying SignUp and Login. Here is why.Did Uber make a mistake unifying SignUp and Login? I think so. Uber has data and experience within its teams that I can hardly fathom let alone compete against. Thus, take my opinions with a pinch of salt — but here they are anyway :-) !! Here is the awesomely…Engineering9 min readEngineering9 min read
Jul 3, 2022The Four-Minute Mile and what I learned from this intriguing storyWe believe we can do it if it has been done before, but that is what I want you to move away from — and this story is proof — Reading about Roger Bannister and the 4-minute mile sprint was strange, yet insightful. Strange because more than 1500 people had achieved this feat the last time I Googled the details. Insightful because there is so much more to it — bringing to the fore the notion about breaking mental barriers.Self Improvement4 min readSelf Improvement4 min read
Jun 9, 2022Insurance for CPG product launches to drive a higher risk appetiteHow might we stimulate innovative communities by designing an experience that gets them to try more of what is “different”? — Here is an idea I was thinking that would help me and others find more new products every week or month at the grocery store. I like tinkering with possibilities and hope it drives food for thought for you. Experience Grocery chains are often able to establish their brand as the…Innovation3 min readInnovation3 min read
May 14, 2022Connecting Sharing Economy to Cloud and SaaSThe cloud model is highly efficient but can we think about applying similar concepts elsewhere? Do you think the capability of the cloud could be decentralised by the use of individual computing power aggregated at a public level? …Cloud Computing6 min readCloud Computing6 min read
May 3, 20225G enables AgriTech, and here are some “outlandish” ideas for shipping Projects around this5G is just getting started and agriculture is one of the main industries we should target for creating incremental value Let me get straight to the point and share what this would look like in one such use case shared by Amdocs (credits for example below). Example: 7:01am: A drone is sent to scan an apple orchard using high-fidelity 4K images 7:02am: Tens of Gigabits of 4K resolution drone images were…Agriculture4 min readAgriculture4 min read
Apr 23, 2022Some Seth Godin Lessons in Shipping a “Project”Imagine if just 1% of projects in the world took 1% less cost and time ?!?! Here is the link to the whole thing (audio version) in case anyone is interested. I am just sharing what you need to be incrementally better at shipping projects rather than perfect ;-P !! Pen and Paper While this was not a point made by Seth specific to shipping projects — I think…Project Management4 min readProject Management4 min read