What I think about
137 pieces here and on Medium, and a newsletter on LinkedIn that a little over twenty-six thousand people read.
What agents will actually replace. Why an Indian business scales through the physical layer rather than around it. What a company costs the person running it.
Insurance and health, from eight years of it. Highways, power and the projects that take years to show whether they worked. India as a market rather than a story. And the parts of running a company that nobody writes down.
Latest
The Biggest Offline Economy in India Has No Operating System
Why I am building spirituality and wellness this time
Before that
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The Seeker’s Orbit: How India Will Plan Its Spiritual Yatras in the Age of AI
Inspiration does not knock. It simply arrives.
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5 Reasons India’s AI Future Is Voice-First (And the Keyboard Is the New Landline)
958 million internet users, 65 million daily ChatGPT users, and one interface problem nobody in Silicon Valley is solving for.
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500 Million Seekers Are Going Online. What They Find There Will Decide Everything.
Spirituality is moving to phones faster than any institution can keep up. The question is not whether technology will carry faith. It is whether it will carry it with trust.
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Persistent AI Agents: 5 Practical Workflows Worth Testing
Longer-running AI work is worth exploring, but availability, integrations and permissions still matter. Here are five workflows to test with tools you can access.
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AG-UI 1.0: The Missing Layer Between AI Agents and Your App, and 5 Practical Use Cases
AI agents are no longer short chatbots that answer one question and stop. They run for a while, call tools in the middle of an answer, hand work to other agents, and sometimes need a human to say yes before they act.
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India’s next big infrastructure is trust.
At 4 AM, a small Indian town is already at work.
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The Consupocalypse: What Survives When Your Customer Sends an Agent Instead
Two weeks ago most people outside tech had not heard of Muse. This month it wiped roughly a fifth off the value of the world’s biggest travel companies.
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Jev by TypeSafe AI: The Sub-100ms Action Engine and 5 Practical Use Cases
In the landscape of artificial intelligence, we have grown accustomed to ‘System Two’ models - generative giants like GPT-4 or Claude that excel at complex reasoning, writing creative prose, and holding nuanced...
The whole archive, year by year
137 pieces in all, 77 on Medium and 60 here, the older ones carried over from the first version of this site. A year at a time, newest first. The feed carries what is published here.
Read for years, in places I do not own
I have been thinking in public for years. The Entrepreneur’s Mind, the newsletter on LinkedIn, reaches a little over twenty-six thousand readers; Tech Is Now the Cheap Part and The Generalist’s Decade Has Arrived are the two from it I would hand somebody first. Beyond that the work has been carried by The Times of India, Business Today, The Hindu, ET BFSI and YourStory, and by Tech in Asia and SiliconIndia during the Artivatic years. Every link above goes to an archive rather than to a selection, because a selection flatters.
Bylines and interviews
The pieces editors ran under my name, and the conversations where I was the one being asked. Mostly from the Artivatic years, when the question was what technology could do for insurance in India.
- The roadmap of gen-next technologies in insurtech
- Leveraging AI and ML to increase insurance penetration
- Gaps in the health insurance ecosystem and how technology bridges them
- Real-time challenges in claim settlements
- Top insurtech trends to look forward to in 2022
- How technology helps start-ups and SMEs choose group health and commercial insurance
Interviews
- Talking ethical AI with Artivatic's Layak Singh
- Minimum data points with maximum efficiency
- Layak Singh, co-founder of Artivatic.ai
- A much wider attack surface
Quoted along the way in Mint, the Financial Express, the Economic Times, VCCircle, Dataquest and Elets BFSI.