Intelligent conversations. Mar ‘24.
My top picks on medium this month for intelligent conversations. Curated nuggets for making points that help you stand out during job interviews, on dinner tables and sidebars huddles.
Recommended reading picks for my students at IBA, Karachi and beyond. I scroll through medium endlessly every week to dig out free to read gems that help us think differently.
Medium has been my go to place for content for over a decade. There was a time when it was over shadowed by Twitter, but between Twitter transition to X and medium reinviting itself all over again, it is very much back.
If you don’t have time to read books, read what other professors, professionals and practitioners write about to stay in touch.
Cross category top reads or read these first.
Top of the pile is Richard Chin with the Most dangerous way to innovate.
And Roger Martin on Strategy and artificial intelligence. The essence of what AI is good or not good at?
For Computational thinking students.
What does it take to build the technology infrastructure for a global company. Also why you are never done building infrastructure when you are in the business of data.
Dusko Pavlovic brilliant series on the language processing continues with a deep dive in / on and around semantics. Some math required but the meaning of meaning discussion can still be had ignoring the math since he defines vectors in terms of Pizza recipes.
On colors, decision makers and decision making.
For Tech Product Development Students.
10 things you need to know about human behavior when it comes to designing digital solutions.
Crafting and plotting user journeys. Common mistakes. A great review of common mistakes we all make in user journey mapping.
Core product design principles that you should never forget.
Revisiting Ed Tufte
For Ethics, technology and AI students.
A great over view of ground rules you need to be aware of in the generative AI space.
Dusko Pavlovic again on limitation of chatbots with 4 elephants in the room. What can Chat GPT do or not do and why does that matter to you?
On the staying in touch front.
This week in AI, summarized.
See you next month.
