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26 articlesCollective Intelligence: Making AI Work for Everyone
Insights from Cooper Union's panel on AI, inclusivity, and the future of human-machine collaboration Last week, I joined a diverse group of thinkers and pr...
RAPTOR: Recursive Thinking for Smarter AI Retrieval – The Executive Code Podcast
I'm excited (and a bit nervous) to share the second episode of The Executive Code podcast, where my colleague Kirim and I explore the intersection of AI, e...
The Culinary Code of AI: Understanding Language Models
By Rajiv Pant and Devesh Raj(Originally published: February 10, 2025 – Updated: February 16, 2025) ChatGPT's arrival in late 2022 marked a turning point in...
Beyond Human Intelligence: Reflections on Consciousness, AI, and the Nature of Mind
Last night, I had a fascinating conversation that started me thinking deeply about the nature of intelligence and consciousness. A close friend shared a st...
Prompt Engineering to Generate Code to Solve A Math Problem
This weekend, my 12-year-old son and I visited our friends for a family BBQ. During our time there, we engaged in a series of math puzzles, competing again...
Yale CEO Summit June 2023: The Intersection of AI and Leadership
I've admired Jeff Sonnenfeld for more than a decade since I studied his book Firing Back and wrote a review. Having attended Professor Jeffrey Sonnenfeld's...
Reinventing How We Will Consume Information: LLM-Powered Agents as Superhuman Guides with Immense Knowledge and Teachers with Infinite Patience
I write this blog post to explore an emerging frontier in the way we consume information – one that will have profound implications for the way we read, le...
Introduction to Generative AI and Large Language Models for Media Business People
It has been more than 7 years since I wrote a blog post titled Information for Technologists Interested in Learning about Artificial Intelligence. Througho...
Humor, Seriously by Jennifer Aaker and Naomi Bagdonas (Book Review)
Since I also wrote my review of Arianna Huffington's The Sleep Revolution while pulling an all-nighter, it is only appropriate that I write my review of a ...
MatheMagic Card Trick
Introduction MatheMagic Card Trick is a fun and simple number revealing magic trick using math. Use the page generate-cards.html to generate your cards to ...
Reflecting on Compliments in a Multicultural World
When I receive a compliment for speaking English well, I graciously respond with, “Thank you. Your command over English is equally impressive.” Living in N...
Reflections on the Yale CEO Summit 2016: Disruption and Leadership in Focus
Yesterday, I attended the Yale CEO Summit for the second time. The summit, held at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City, brought together some of the world...
Information for Technologists Interested in Learning about Artificial Intelligence
This article is primarily for people with a background in technology and software engineering wanting to learn about AI. Topics include artificial intellig...
Why Data Breaches Don’t Hurt Stock Prices (Harvard Business Review)
If you are a CEO, CFO, corporate board member or investor, the article Why Data Breaches Don’t Hurt Stock Prices published on Harvard Business Review by El...
Reflecting on the Yale CEO Summit 2014: A Confluence of Global Leadership and Local Sensitivities
I recently attended the Yale CEO Summit, a gathering of some of the world's most influential leaders across various sectors. The summit, held at the Waldor...
IESE Business School Executive Education Course
Rajiv was invited to be a Guest Speaker in the Executive Education course at the IESE Business School. He spoke about leadership, management and organization...
Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business – Guest Speaker on Organizational Behavior
At Stanford University's Graduate School of Business, Rajiv was a guest speaker / panelist and spoke about organizational behavior at two sessions to MBA s...
Your Brain At Work (Book Review)
Let me tell you a story about my friends Emily and Paul. Emily and Paul were struggling in their demanding jobs and in managing their busy family life rais...
Jeffrey Pfeffer, Professor, Stanford University Graduate School of Business
Jeffrey Pfeffer shared this recommendation for Rajiv on August 21, 2012 via LinkedIn: Rajiv was one of the most insightful, self-reflective, and self-aware...
How to Avoid Duplicate Search Results when using Apple Mail.app with Gmail
I use Gmail's IMAP feature with my Apple Mac OS's built in Mail.app program. Mail.app keeps local copies (on all my personal Macs) of all my email messages...
Bavarian International School in Germany
Rajiv gave a lecture on Cloud Computing & Social Networks at the Bavarian International School in Germany. (February 5, 2010)
Using Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) with an EC2 Instance
One of the differences between Amazon EC2 server instances and normal servers is that the server's local disk storage state (i.e. changes to data) on EC2 i...
Management & Technical Career Growth Tracks
Described here is one way to enable technologists to grow their careers in your organization while still allowing them to focus on the type of work they ar...
Amazon NowNow Gave Me This Answer on Where To Learn Spanish
The Amazon Kindle mobile reading device comes with their NowNow service included, where you can ask any question you like and you get a response from a pai...
With land and air covered, now for the water
Hang gliding over beautiful mountains and the beach was great fun, so with land and air covered, I needed to learn to swim. I'm one of those few adults who...
Medill School of Journalism and the Computer Science Department at Northwestern University
In 2003 & 2002, Rajiv was invited by the Medill School of Journalism and the Computer Science Department at Northwestern University. He gave lectures on ne...