Visualize the AI Ecosystem
AI is all the rage these days. But few people have a clear picture of what the AI ecosystem looks like. I have been thinking about it for some time, and feel that a supply...
A bold vision of AI Education
Recently I read about an article by Dimitri Bertsimas, who is the Vice Provost of MIT Opening Learning, that describes a vision of what he calls Universal AI: “Universal...
Khanmigo Offers A Glimpse of what AI can do to help future education
I am a fan of Sal Kahn, the person who not only founded Kahn Academy, but also have been working tirelessly to help better education for the past twenty years. The fact that...
2025: A Year of Uncertainty(?) and Growth(!)
It is 2025. What will it bring? It is fair to say that I have no idea. Looking back, who would have thought that the stock market would be one of the best years? I did not....
100% focus = Joy
I stumbled upon this idea while listening to “People I mostly admire”, one of favorite podcasts, where its host Steve Levitt interviewed Dan Gilbert, the famed...
The American Civil War was a War on Supply Chains
I love to look at the Early Modern Period and the Modern Age through a capitalist lense. I see the significance of capitalism in almost every turn of historical events when I...
The Transportation sector is much larger than the entertainment industry… but why do people think the other way?
This is a simple post about building the right perspective on sizes of different industries. I was listening to one of favorite supply chain management podcasts...
How the consulting world screwed up the ‘Lean’ Idea
The lean idea was started by Toyota in the war-torn Japan in the 1950s, almost by necessity. It turns to be very effective and helped Toyota grow and even dominate the world...
Excel trick: Search for multiple keywords from a list
Recently I was given a large spreadsheet with people’s expertise written in long phrases, and I had to identify those people who have AI-related expertise. The issue...