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I can't believe I just cured my motion sickness! For the longest time, I never refrained from using my phone in a car because the moment the car started moving it would give me...
28 February 20251 min readTechnology & AINews Bits
❌ ✈️ Flying Sucks Now, Doesn’t It? ❌ ✈️ Remember the first few times you ever flew? Wasn’t it magical? It would be exciting. You would pack your bags and be ready to leave the...
27 February 20251 min readTechnology & AINews Bits
🕵 Spy bots are real! 🕵 If you thought you're the only one using AI, remember, even secret spies use chatbots in their daily lives. 🙃 The CIA has rolled out an AI powered...
31 January 20251 min readTechnology & AINews Bits
❄️ Through the harshest winters, come the smartest rings 💍 I recently read about the story of ŌURA, the smart ring company. But I was quite impressed to see that this was one of...
29 January 20251 min readTechnology & AINews Bits
The newest way to no code is to... code? 🚀 "We don’t care about building for professional coders anymore." This is what Amjad Masad, the founder of Replit has said. Replit is a...
27 January 20251 min readTechnology & AINews Bits
🌶️ It's getting Big Spicy in Big Tech 🌶️ I recently saw Zuck's interview on the Joe Rogan and was quite surprised by the sheer shade he threw by calling out Apple for what he...
20 January 20251 min readTechnology & AINews Bits
Someone recently asked me why I make all my newsbits posts. I thought about it myself. I think in the end, I just love to write. It's therapeutic for me. I want to be able to...
19 January 20251 min readPersonal PhilosophyNews Bits
🚨 Real time wildfire updates save lives 🚨 It has obviously been very hard to read about one of the most devastating wildfire seasons in Los Angeles. Among all this, I felt a...
16 January 20251 min readTechnology & AINews Bits
"I am rich and have no idea what to do with my life" That was the title of a raw piece written by the co founder of Loom stemming from an existential crisis after getting a pretty...
9 January 20251 min readPersonal PhilosophyNews Bits
If you’re making your users wait, atleast make it fun 🤓 I was ordering something on Zomato, a food delivery app in India. And when I was waiting for my order to be confirmed, I...
4 January 20251 min readTechnology & AINews Bits
It's tougher to be unkind. Recently I was on a customer service chat with Google because I had an issue with my account (amazing cs interface btw) For the most part, I thought I...
2 January 20251 min readPersonal PhilosophyNews Bits
Your Year Wrapped As the sun sets on your year, take a few moments to think about the experiences, people, art, hardships and achievements you have encountered. Re read your...
30 December 20241 min readTechnology & AINews Bits
It's always meaningful to reflect especially on an experience as precious as our undergrad. When HKUST Engineering reached out and asked me to share my experiences, it brought...
29 December 20242 min readPersonal PhilosophyNews Bits
An amazing perspective on AI and music by Spotify CTO and CPO Gustav Söderström If you think about music, it's going through a journey of more capable tools. Go way back, even if...
18 November 20242 min readCulture & CreativityNews Bits
Just found out about 'blind box live streaming' in China where they have gamified livestream shopping.. Gambling + Shopping + Community Viewers pay small amounts to purchase...
15 November 20241 min readTechnology & AINews Bits
I just saw the classiest response by a company that just got sherlocked! 📵 Being sherlocked is a phenomena in the tech industry where a third party improvement to an existing big...
19 July 20241 min readTechnology & AINews Bits
The world just got a little more easier to talk to! A few weeks ago, Google Translate straight up doubled the number of languages they support by adding 110 new ones thanks to the...
12 July 20241 min readTechnology & AINews Bits
We could be talking to animals soon 🦁 Just read about the Coller Doolittle challenge. Jeremy Coller (chairman of Coller Capital and philanthropist) has just offered $10M to...
2 July 20241 min readTechnology & AINews Bits
Maybe less is better? Have you ever felt like you want to downgrade to a dumb phone to reduce distractions and social media addictions, but there you cannot because maps...
27 June 20241 min readTechnology & AINews Bits
Have you had a chance to use Perplexity yet? It is quickly gaining traction and becoming an addition to my GenAI stack. Where tools like ChatGPT, Gemini etc are being used to...
18 June 20241 min readTechnology & AINews Bits
Apple announced Apple Intelligence (AI lol) at WWDC yesterday. And in typical Apple fashion, it's late to the game, but it looks polished. Some interesting features I saw The Siri...
11 June 20242 min readTechnology & AINews Bits
Something I read recently that made me pause Only decades ago, the average person had one source of information, if any — the local newspaper. It’d take an hour, tops, out of...
8 June 20241 min readPersonal PhilosophyNews Bits
I believe governments and law making bodies have the strongest authority and opportunity to solve climate change. Companies are created on capitalist principles, and its very hard...
27 March 20231 min readTechnology & AINews Bits
Hardest languages to learn for english speakers? A few months ago, I shared a post about the most spoken languages in the world. (It actually became my most popular post! I also...
24 March 20231 min readCulture & CreativityNews Bits
A quick one for today, but enough said. 😆 newsbits
22 March 20231 min readTechnology & AINews Bits
Its time to stop investing your money emotionally, and learn how money works. Many of us may not even know how most of the popular companies today earn and spend money. Are they...
17 March 20231 min readTechnology & AINews Bits
Have you ever wondered what are the most liked tweets of all time? The highest liked tweet was the announcement of the passing of Chadwick Boseman (popular for playing Black...
15 March 20231 min readCulture & CreativityNews Bits
Some core wisdom in this post. As someone in working with software engineers on a daily basis, this post taught me a lot, so I am sure it has some great advice for those working...
13 March 20231 min readPersonal PhilosophyNews Bits
Did you know about this Facebook hardware product called the Portal which was almost sold off to Amazon? They are shutting it down. The Facebook Portal was a highly acclaimed...
10 March 20231 min readTechnology & AINews Bits
“We never read the same book twice. Because we’ve changed. The perceptions about the book have changed. What we’re going through in this very moment is new and different” Author...
9 March 20231 min readPersonal PhilosophyNews Bits
Did you know that Apple’s first ever emoji library was created by just one employee and an intern? 🎉 Another fact for you, emoji comes from the japanese work 絵文字 which roughly...
3 March 20231 min readCulture & CreativityNews Bits
Would you pay 60$ a month for a dating app? What about 500$? 🤯 Firstly did you know that a majority of popular dating apps are owned by one company? Match Group Global ones like...
27 February 20231 min readTechnology & AINews Bits
If the new generations are getting most of their content online, they should be taught to distinguish between real and fake news. Teachers have noticed a clear decline in reading...
25 February 20231 min readTechnology & AINews Bits
What should we really use our manager 1 on 1s for? Recently I came across this question in a thread. Many of us might be lucky enough to have managers who have blocked a 30 min...
23 February 20231 min readTechnology & AINews Bits
Ways you never knew you could use ChatGPT The other day, for the first time I felt the true power of a tool like ChatGPT, when it straight up gave me the exact Excel formulas I...
21 February 20231 min readTechnology & AINews Bits
A simple slide deck went viral in 2009 because it was revolutionary. Yes I’m talking about the Netflix culture deck that was published in 2009 by Reed Hastings (The CEO). This...
19 February 20231 min readTechnology & AINews Bits
Sony just released a new walkman! And no, this is not a headline from the early 2000s 😄 Apparently the Sony Walkman is still alive and kicking it! It looks sleek and well...
19 February 20231 min readCulture & CreativityNews Bits
Don’t ban ChatGPT in schools. Teach with it. As we all know, ChatGPT has taken the entire world by storm. There hasnt been this much buzz and amazement about some tech for a long...
17 February 20231 min readTechnology & AINews Bits
How to use LinkedIn more effectively to attract more recruiters, from a Senior Product Designer at LinkedIn! I found this really nice article from Katie Jacquez, who gave some...
15 February 20231 min readTechnology & AINews Bits
What if you woke up one day and almost 60% of your meetings were gone from the calendar? Thats what Shopify decided to do, last month. They have removed all recurring meetings...
13 February 20231 min readTechnology & AINews Bits
If only I had access to this information in school and university…. Whether you are interested in being a veterinarian, pilot, product manager, chef, music composer, banker...
9 February 20231 min readTechnology & AINews Bits
Pinterest's 2023 trend predictions predictions People use Pinterest to save interesting things that are up and coming. That means they may on to what’s next. They also mentioned...
7 February 20231 min readTechnology & AINews Bits
Dopamine masterclass by Dr Huberman This year I decided to fill up my commutes and idle time with podcasts. I wanted something that would be interesting and doesnt involve me...
5 February 20232 min readCulture & CreativityNews Bits
Some delightful easter eggs I found while using PayPay Corporation's app. One of my favourite use cases of PayPay is that I can pay my utility bills directly through them by...
1 February 20231 min readTechnology & AINews Bits
2022 in search trends 1. Interesting to see how NFT surged and then died down 2. Wordle had been quite relevant all throughout the year, but I think it lost steam after the NYT...
30 January 20231 min readTechnology & AINews Bits
Show me a 10ft paywall, I’ll show you a 12ft ladder 12ft.io is a site that removes most paywalls, ads and other distractions from online articles by showing the cached version...
27 January 20231 min readTechnology & AINews Bits
An epic battle between the growth PM, the revenue PM and legal PM at The Weather Channel 😆 Growth PM Pushing the user to download the mobile app, or create an account Revenue PM...
26 January 20231 min readTechnology & AINews Bits
How to deal with an intense amount of junk mail in Japan Every time I emptied my mailbox, in a few days I could count almost 50+ pieces of mail that were completely useless to me...
25 January 20231 min readTechnology & AINews Bits
Lenny Rachitsky is hands down the best product newsletter writer out there. I like his newsletter because instead of just using theory or jargon, it gives us real life stories and...
23 January 20231 min readTechnology & AINews Bits
Some simple tips that can elevate conversations A skill that everyone could benefit from improving, yet few pay active attention to it. 1. Don’t Interrupt interrupting shows that...
23 January 20231 min readPersonal PhilosophyNews Bits
A beautiful visualization of languages I recently found this map on twitter and I couldnt stop looking at it... Here were some of the interesting things I found 1. Chinese (and...
21 January 20231 min readCulture & CreativityNews Bits
A primer on customer interviews from the best in the business Teresa Torres who is the author of Continuous Discovery Habits, recently wrote this post to give very straightforward...
19 January 20231 min readTechnology & AINews Bits
Some interesting insights from surveys done in 2022 1. 40% of Americans are typically making cashless purchases throughout the week 2. 30% of TikTok adult users say thats they...
17 January 20231 min readTechnology & AINews Bits
Murphy’s law: If there is a test, there will be a way to cheat it 😂 Many Chinese students have been cheating on the Test of English as a Foreign Language (Toefl) exam since it...
15 January 20231 min readTechnology & AINews Bits
Soon AI could help you automate things like filing complaints, cancelling subscriptions and fighting parking tickets… DoNotPay has just launched a new AI powered chatbot to...
13 January 20231 min readTechnology & AINews Bits
Reading books is the most efficient way to absorb wisdom. If you don’t already read, well it’s never too late to do that. Read what you love, until you love what to read. If you...
11 January 20231 min readTechnology & AINews Bits
🗞 Introducing News Bits 🗞 I spend more than an hour daily reading tech, business, finance, and pop culture news from all around the internet. But just reading and moving on...
10 January 20231 min readTechnology & AINews Bits
How would teleportation look like as a product? Today, as part of a Product Manager training at Rakuten, we were asked to create a product map for moonshot projects. Our team got...
14 July 20211 min readTechnology & AINews Bits
Can exes still be friends? Recently I cancelled my paid Medium subscription because I slowly shifted to Twitter and newsletters for my reading. I was quite surprised and happy to...
7 July 20211 min readTechnology & AINews Bits