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
Category: 1 Line Ideas
Ideas that are meant for the digital world, which do not exist anywhere yet, and which can be conveyed in a couple of lines
“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”
“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’”
“Reinventing life for the resume maker in each of us…”
Making resumes is an iterative process. A long, arduous one – depending on your proclivity towards the same. Which, unless you’re a resume-maker by profession, is probably close to zero. You ask someone who has a keen eye for detail, an OCD for accuracy, unwillingness to haphazardly copy-paste something together, patience to give every word… Continue reading “Reinventing life for the resume maker in each of us…”
In the era of zero to no privacy, doesn’t the world need…
…a service that scours the world wide web and tells you where your email ID is registered? It might have been the technology forums you registered on 3 years ago when you were desperately looking to revive your dead laptop by hunting for answers using your slow phone browser, or the product review sites you… Continue reading In the era of zero to no privacy, doesn’t the world need…
“SMS texts need to evolve…”
I mean, if SMS texts have evolved from using alphabets and digits to using special characters to allowing those special characters to show up as emoticons in your text messages, you would think that bold and italics and underline aren’t too far behind, right? And if they aren’t, where are they? Don’t they know they’re… Continue reading “SMS texts need to evolve…”
Four degrees of separation
The idea of six degrees of separation was expressed by Frigyes Karinthy in 1929 and for the past few decades, it has been part of our consciousness with respect to how the world is shrinking. However, more 80 years later, I find it surprising that no one has revised the degree of six downwards. Today… Continue reading Four degrees of separation
Your impact on your social network
Facebook, like no other entity of our time, has been advocating a more open and connected world since the get-go. One way Facebook is attempting to build user involvement in this endeavour is by measuring a user’s impact on his or her network. In this case, impact is measured as the Number of people the… Continue reading Your impact on your social network