ALYK1- Machine Learning
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Introduction
I have friends.
To me, that’s a moderately sized accomplishment.
If that doesn’t impress you, please lower your standards a bit - you’re making me nervous.
There’s few, more lobe-aching experiences than sitting down, wanting to do a podcast and then trying to figure out what you have to say to the world that your potential listeners couldn’t pick up more concisely in the 2 minutes Tai Lopez shouts at them in between Youtube music videos.
So, what do I figure I’m good at?
I’m remarkably social, a skill I’ve honed through years of pretending to be just that.
I’m fairly intelligent, but more important than that, I’m a good-spirited learner, but more important than that…
… I’m a very good bullshitter.
I usually don’t have a problem entering a foreign social environment and fitting right in. To give you context, I’m a 29 year old Sikh dude, with a braided beard, longer than many people’s ponytails. It’s also got a silver bead on the end by the way. That means I’m not going to be on the shortlist to play Jason Bourne or James Bond anytime soon.
I stick out. But, that doesn’t have to necessarily be a weakness, as I hope to impart upon you… 10 minutes at a time, every few days.
You’ve heard of the phrase Fake it ‘til you make it’. That’s the spirit of this podcast, and it’s also what I would get tattooed on my inner ankle in Mandarin characters if I was… one of those people.
If you stick with me, I’ll give you the conversational and sociological trickery you’ll need to pretend like you know what you’re talking about the next time you’re; at a cocktail party, chatting up a cute person at the bus stop or navigating some excruciating smalltalk with your boss.
And hey, if you end up actually learning something, or picking up a book by someone who actually knows what their talking about as a result of me, awesome!
Some disclaimers: This is all firmly tongue-in-cheek. I’m not pretending to be an expert on 90% of what I talk about. This podcast isn’t a substitute for really going out there and getting yourself educated on something important. I’m going to do my best not to lie to you. I’m only going to dumb things down… a lot. Because, that’s the only way dumb people, like myself, stand a chance these days.
The first step to really being a better person, is acting like it. Hopefully someday soon you’ll be good enough to convince yourself it’s really you.
So let’s see how this goes…
Buzzword
I’m Ranbir Singh and it’s time to Act Like You Know.
Today’s episode is brought to you by the buzzword Disruptive Innovation.
O.K. Fine that’s 2 words. First podcast and I’m already cheating you say?
What does it mean? The innovation part is easy enough - that’s a new idea or thing.
Someone could make a new type of smartphone one that can run a Google search via smell or something.
Now, what makes an innovation disruptive? It has to royally fuck up the current status quo in some domain of our lives.
If Apple came out and announced the Iphone in 2007, but told the world if would cost twenty thousand dollars a unit, it wouldn’t have been disruptive.
Reason being - only a small fraction of the population would have been able to buy it, and the rest of us would still be pressing nine four times to get a zed (that’s zee for you americans)
Iphones being as moderately priced as they were, allowed Apple to sell $1.4 million of them that first year.
Much less than 1% of even the United States’s population at the time, but it enough to start us done the path to where we are today, with more than 2 billion smartphone users worldwide.
How to use this buzzword:
Drop the innovation appendage. Disruptive, disruption, disrupting, disrupt - any mutation of the world will do to get you the cred you’re looking forward.
Start pointing out work being done by tech companies, universities and labs as having the potential to be disruptive.
Hesitate to completely commit to something being the next big thing’, as that may compel the person to ask for more substance, at which point you’re be looking for the closest balcony to repel done and get outta there.
Anything
could
be disruptive. It’ll show that you are an optimist, hoping for the best outcomes from human grit and ingenuity.
If you fashion yourself to be the village troll, you can go the other way with you’re disruption callouts.
For example “Oh Sahil, your 5 page paper on arctic sovereignty was
so
disruptive.”
This will score you points as:
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- A sick burn, of course\
- Mocking a commonly evoked paradigm, as you’re indeed better than everyone else
As always with buzzwords, use with caution, results may vary.