I'm Arjun. This is my digital garden.

The internet has found a new fidget spinner - The Faceapp Challenge. Yes, I’m talking about the app that uses AI to show us how we will look when we get old. D’oh! The Faceapp Challenge, like the Ice Bucket Challenge, or the Kiki Challenge has the same common denominator that “breaks the internet” every time - the stupidity of human intellect clubbed with a cognitive bias known as the bandwagon effect. It all starts with fun and games - just a harmless picture of you looking like a 65 year old posted on social media. You’re amused, your friends want to try it out too, you get your 15 seconds of instant gratification. End of story, right? Wrong. Faceapp User Agreement authorises them with a perpetual, irrevocable, non exclusive, royalty free, worldwide, fully paid and transferable license to basically do whatever they want with your picture. The deepfake tech behind Faceapp can be used in incredibly malicious ways. Could deepfake AI be used to potentially plant false criminal e

Why I feel Air India (AI) should be saved and MTNL & BSNL should not. Think of AI as the entitled only daughter that was provided with extraordinary privileges while her family was slowly drowning in debt. Once she realized that, she became frugal. Contrarily, MTNL and BSNL are those brat brothers who, despite realizing their family's travesty, never gave a damn. AI Express has still managed to post operating profits for the last two years. Their fleet is struggling, but maintained. They struggle with on time performance, but they are flying. They are still in the game, and not because they have a rich dad. MTNL and BSNL have utterly failed in understanding the competitiveness of the business they operate in. I doubt they even understood their finances well, given that their own auditors say that their net worth has fully eroded. And, luckily they don't have to worry about customer service anymore because, well, very few customers (I being one of them). Every organ

Early disruptors face a huge challenge in finding their footing in a chaotic, unorganized and unregulated market. Before Zoomcar, the concept of self-driven car rentals was alien to India. One of the reasons Zoomcar caught early traction was because it got people excited about not having the hassle of driving their own vehicles for long distance trips, while having the "fun" of driving, regardless. What sold self-driving rentals early was not convenience. It was carefreeness. Consequently, many of their early vehicles were being driven rashly with drivers cutting corners with traffic laws [anecdotal observations]. Their first few batches of vehicles must have worn out quickly. When you self-drive a rental today, you have to comply with their terms. That includes indemnifying the company, taking potential insurance liability on yourself (which discourages you from sharing the steering with your buddy sitting next to you), and being accountable for breaking any traffic