They say retirement planning is one of the most complex problems to solve since it involves a lot of moving parts – Known variables Unknown variables Typically, people use Known.1&2&3 and estimate Unknown.1&2&3 to arrive at Future Corpus Size that will be needed to comfortably retire. But that’s the typical approach that everyone takes –… Continue reading Building a retirement calculator with GenAI tools
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Ideas that are meant for the digital world, but do not exist anywhere yet
“Automating away the issue around high network transaction fees”
2021 has seen a stark increase in transaction fees on popular crypto networks, none so more than Ethereum, where user-facing fees have regularly crossed $100 for long periods of time. The idea is that every platform, centralized or decentralized, worth its salt should provide the “ability to let users schedule a transaction when the associated… Continue reading “Automating away the issue around high network transaction fees”
“Leverage smart contracts in the world of UPI to reduce occurrence of scams”
As the UPI payment ecosystem in India has grown by leaps & bounds in the past few years, one of the challenges that users are facing is the finality of transactions, or what one would call, the irreversibility of transactions for the sender. This has led to an uptick in online scams, primarily driven by… Continue reading “Leverage smart contracts in the world of UPI to reduce occurrence of scams”
It’s time for media platforms to go beyond their subscription-only revenue models by enabling microtransactions
It is no secret that the media industry is in trouble. Human beings have moved away from scheduled consumption of content, whether it’s television or print media, to a world where news is live and everything happens in real-time. The advent of the Internet and the proliferation of mass media consumption that happens through our… Continue reading It’s time for media platforms to go beyond their subscription-only revenue models by enabling microtransactions
The 3 Rs that Microsoft Powerpoint needs – Rearrange, Resize & Reorder
As time goes by, most of us corporate slaves find ourselves spending more time with Microsoft Powerpoint and less time with Microsoft Excel. I must also admit that after a lifetime of being in love with Excel, I’m definitely warming up to Powerpoint, slowly but surely… And as all relationships go, after the initial honeymoon… Continue reading The 3 Rs that Microsoft Powerpoint needs – Rearrange, Resize & Reorder
Get Google’s help to influence road quality improvement around the world
We can all agree that road conditions all around the world (most cities in most countries) could do with a lot of improvement. The problem gets exacerbated in overcrowded cities with poor road quality (e.g. India and other developing nations). We all use Google Maps most of the time, not just to navigate, but also… Continue reading Get Google’s help to influence road quality improvement around the world
“Counter Strike scorecards to use ‘relative ranking'”
Most first-person-shooter (FPS) games have a simple scoring mechanism. The number of enemies you kill is counted as your Kill score, and the number of times you die is counted as your Death score. Team A’s total Kill score will typically be the Team B’s total Death score. Similarly, Team B’s total Kill score will… Continue reading “Counter Strike scorecards to use ‘relative ranking’”
Comparison Sites: Cameras: The Present and the Future
This is the first in a series of posts where we look at comparison sites across product categories and review their approach and recommend suggestions to make their user offerings stronger. I discovered Snapsort just under two years ago and found it a refreshing change from the usual technically overdosed sites like Digital Photography Review.… Continue reading Comparison Sites: Cameras: The Present and the Future
How Linkedin needs to get into the Reputation game (and why)
We all know how Linkedin works – people have their own profiles, which they update with their work experience, and over time, build a set of recommendations from other Linkedin users with whom they have worked. Since all the information people save in their profile is uploaded directly by them, the one important way to… Continue reading How Linkedin needs to get into the Reputation game (and why)
How IMDb can go from reactively tracking movies to proactively changing the movie industry
IMDb has been around since 1990 and has been able to surpass our expectations of what a movie database should possess. Not only does IMDb allow for movies to be rated on a scale of 1 to 10 which help viewers decide which movies to watch – but it has now become the largest global… Continue reading How IMDb can go from reactively tracking movies to proactively changing the movie industry