That we could make payments via mobile across the spectrum, from street vendors to high-end retail outlets, would have looked far-fetched even a decade ago. Today, people are making road trips across India without needing cash. That’s how mainstream Unified Payments Interface (UPI) has become in India. Consider the ripples UPI created in the ecosystem:... Continue Reading →
Can Threads Replace Twitter?
Last week, Meta released Threads, its competitor to Twitter. Threads has been launched as a standalone app based on Instagram. Not the political type? Threads plans to stay away from politics and hard news. As experiences of both Facebook and Twitter show, conversations around politics attract negativity and scrutiny that are best avoided. Bit ironical,... Continue Reading →
Why Hollywood writers fear AI?
Even as the ‘Writers Guild of America’ (Hollywood writers) is striking for better pay, it’s AI anxiety that underpins the movement. The writers are concerned about how Generative AI (like ChatGPT) could impact their future. They fear AI could be used to create the first draft of a script, which would later be refined by... Continue Reading →
The Hero’s Journey
Did you experience a deja vu while watching a movie you never saw before? Did you see a vague pattern that you could intuitively sense, but couldn’t really put a finger on? Did you feel there’s a method to the madness that surrounds movies? If you did, it’s because there really IS a *Formula* at... Continue Reading →
Being my own light
"Success is becoming in middle adulthood what you dreamed to be in late childhood." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb. In the heady days of my graduation around 2006, I alongside my friends created a new website. We got our hands dirty with whatever primitive tools were available at that point. And given how central cinema was... Continue Reading →
Musings by Madhav 