Helping Leaders Navigate the AI Revolution
Practical insights on artificial intelligence, digital transformation, leadership, and the future of work
6 Published books | 30+ years in Technology Leadership | 100+ articles & essays on AI Strategy, Leadership, and Transformation
Areas of Focus
Artificial Intelligence
AI strategy, transformation, adoption, governance, agents and the future of work
Digital Transformation
Frameworks and insights for leading technology-enabled business transformation
Leadership & Innovation
Practical perspectives on leadership, innovation, and navigating disruption
Featured AI Insights
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Powers that be – Who controls the switch?
We have spent the last two years asking one question – How much electricity does AI need? Gigawatts, datacenters, and rising utility bills have dominated the headlines. It is a fair question. But what if it is the wrong one? What if we should be asking: Who will control electricity? At its heart, the grid… Continue
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AI’s Energy Paradox: Can AI Solve the Grid Crisis It Created?
The rapid surge in AI infrastructure’s power demand has created a historic collision between big tech and the U.S. power grid. This could become the watershed moment for American energy policy and grid stability. The combination of staggering growth, abrupt load changes due to AI workloads, and infrastructure bottlenecks are leading to higher bills for… Continue
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The AI ROI Trap
In a recent discussion with a CTO, I asked about the metrics they used for measuring the impact of AI on their business. He shared a slide that had been presented to the executive team as a bragging right that boldly claimed 87% Adoption of the company’s new AI co-pilot. When I pressed him with… Continue
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Is SaaS dead? Not yet – But the Build-vs-Buy question CxOs are asking as already obsolete
Back in the mid-1990s, I was part of a small team at Intel that worked on the project called WIINGS that managed indirect inventory and was critical to their factory stores. We were told that the ERP rollout will replace our software within a year. Decades later, its core logic still runs, largely untouched, while… Continue
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What beyond the Co-Pilot? The Wire-Hanger test most leadership teams fail
In one of our annual leadership conferences at Intel, Diane Bryant, our then CIO, conducted a break-out session on out-of-the-box / lateral thinking. We were ~20 people in her session when she asked us all to write down the maximum number of use cases for a metal-wire hanger, you know the flimsy ones that you… Continue
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Vibe Coding will 10x your best engineers – and your worst ones too
In case you have not yet caught on to the latest hype around AI, let me introduce you to the concept of vibe coding. It is popularized by Andrej Karpathy, an AI researcher, whose credentials are impressive and therefore his tweet hit more than 4 million views. I show the snapshot of the actual tweet… Continue
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Reflections and musings on life and other non-AI topics
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The things we leave unfinished
There is a strange comfort in keeping certain things unfinished. A book we stop reading halfway through, a message we type but never send, or a decision we keep postponing because we are not quite ready to live with its consequences. We often call these things regrets or mistakes, as though everything in life must… Continue
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The Two Clocks I Can’t Delete
I believe that the two clock phenomenon is common across all first-generation immigrants, like myself. For me, one says Santa Clara (US), the country I migrated to, and the other says New Delhi (India), the country I migrated from. For years I told myself this was practical, but somewhere along the way I noticed something… Continue
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The weight they chose to carry
Sometimes, there are moments that never make the news. No headlines. No hashtags. No awards. Just ordinary people doing ordinary things that quietly tell you a society is changing. During my recent visit to India, I went to the mall to clock my steps and escape the peak-summer heat. As my tracker counted my steps,… Continue
Meet Rajeev
I’m an AI strategist, author, and technology leader passionate about helping individuals and organizations navigate the opportunities and challenges of artificial intelligence. Open for consulting, advisory, and fractional opportunities.