In learning from data (experience), we build a model based on the sample we get. Now going by Bayesian Thinking, we continuously update our beliefs as we continue to get more and more evidence. Beliefs are flexible. They should be flexible. They need to change when we observe something that contradicts our existing belief (which…

Many readers are likely to misinterpret the tone of my views in https://atomic-temporary-200527999.wpcomstaging.com considering me as an advocate of luck. I am not in favour of analysing success. I like to analyse (appreciate) the path instead. For example, many analyses, books study successful people, great companies. That is, they do P( Path | Success) type…

In his blog, James very nicely articulates that in the long run, hard work clearly wins over the luck. That has to be true otherwise there would be no motivation whatsoever to do something. I would like to quote his line: As a general rule, the wilder the success, the more extreme and unlikely the…

I feel “Luck” is a form of Uncertainty. The completeness (Dattatreya) is the union of certainty (laws) and uncertainty (randomness). This element is all pervading. Given. And precisely for that reason, called as Datta. Scientists show us how laws operate in this Universe. Mystics show us the other side, call it miracles, synchronicity (Carl Jung),…

In last blog, we went through tiny habits techniques by BJ Fogg. We can use these habits to achieve some goal. Now naturally we would ask, what should be our goal? We do know what we are good at, for sure. But we don’t know what we are really good at! We need to explore…

Chaos Theory. Butterfly Effect. If America sneezes India catches cold. Heard any of these? There’s one more, Small changes that change everything. The wonderful book by BJ Fogg, talks about the #tinyHabits. It is a well-researched book that has worked well for so many lives. Even if you develop #tinyNumber of them, that is enough…

Everyone likes the word Success. All have different ideas about what it means and how to measure it. I am not an exception. Yet I am surprised by this! Everyone has a tendency to quickly reduce anybody’s success story into essential qualities and associate them to Success. I am not an exception. Yet I am…

Leadership requires a corresponding time window for its assessment to be called successful. The same leadership skills fail miserably when time window changes. I think, there’s nothing called as Evolution of Leadership, or a Universal Leader. Leadership is no doubt continuous however it has its own cycle. Even lord Vishnu has to adopt drastically different…

Records are made to be broken, says Terry Vaughn (I fear plagiarism!). A slight modification would be “New year resolutions are made to be unkept or unfulfilled!” Most often, we talk about “learning (something) from data”. However, there is also something called “unlearning (something) from data”. Let us try for a moment to replace the…