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He is 24, curious, and a product of formal, structured, theoretical education, classic Indian oral tutelage and the immersive integrated learning approach of traditional guru-shishya parampara. He l...
*Since Mid-2025: Federal Instructional-Systems Jobs Down 16.4%, UK Demand Down 21%, US Demand Down 9.5%* ## The question In the past few weeks, instructional designers have started voicing their op...
The eLearning industry has been through very little serious disruption since it emerged as a byproduct of internet technologies. It is now facing its very first existential ripple, and from where I s...
"All roads lead to God, my son." "All roads?" "Yes, all roads." "Are you sure?" "Yes, of course. Our sacred scriptures say so." "Maybe they mean certain paths lead to God." "No, my son. A...
Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini do not like the headlines I write. But I do. Because I wrote them. That is the entire advantage of being editor of my own magazine, writer of my own articles: the decision is...
Small and mid-sized businesses I know are not investing in AI capabilities. They are stable businesses with clients, a steady pipeline of work, and clear signs they will grow that business. They also...
*This article was first published in June 2025 as part of an AI column series for GoSeeko. Almost a year on, the observations have held up with remarkable fidelity. A few things have changed — and th...
*The views expressed in this article are probably solely those of the author, who may be of the mind to assert every moral right to be identified as such, unless there is a possibility of repercussio...
Today is the first day in 5 that I took a break to write. Am currently studying for exams. Which means that most days I am doing nothing but studying. That's also how I design or write or research o...
Last weekend I met three parents of teenage children who spoke about the need for young people to write so that they could develop their thinking abilities. It was a session on artificial intelligenc...
In many cultures, socialising is work. Or at least an important part of work. In cultures where socialising is not integrated with work, it is a set of activities that is carefully and deliberately s...
*Sanjay Mukherjee, 1 April 2026* --- On the morning of 31 March 2026, tens of thousands of Oracle employees opened their inboxes to find a five-line email from "Oracle Leadership." No call from HR....
Am back in Mumbai after quite a few months. By noon I was in Juhu for a couple of meetings. With twenty minutes before the first one, I did what I always do when I'm in the vicinity — walked the beac...
I could be a lawyer. Do people pass on their law genes to their next generation? My dad had a Masters in law. One of my uncles — the brother born right after my dad — wasn't just a lawyer, but went ...
Research is an important part of a student's life. It is also an important part of work life later on. Research also happens to be one of the key task areas that AI evangelists and marketeers highlig...
 I just collected an order of c...
 I have spent the last 48 hours carrying a t...
Last month — February 2026 — a close friend in the USA started a new job. He had been out of work 14 months, had applied to more than 5000 jobs in those 14 months, working 12 hours a day to prepare p...
Many months ago, I met a group of students who were debating if there was any future in studying visual design. All of them were pursuing bachelors in Visual Design or Visual Arts. Their main concern...
My first full-time job was as a sales executive with a travel agency in Santacruz (West), Mumbai — then Bombay. I was the last one hired in a team of twelve, and I got the territory nobody else wante...
Last week (March 5, 2026), I had a strange experience with ChatGPT. I was mid-session, in a technical conversation about enterprise technology stacks. I had just asked for alternatives to .NET when a...
One fine morning in early 1991, I found myself reporting to Ramesh Borwankar, a Chef de Partie (CDP) in the central kitchen of the 5 star hotel, Centaur near Santacruz Airport, Mumbai. The central ki...
Late-stage failures in complex systems are rarely dramatic. They are microscopic. Yesterday, a production build failed. The error message was precise: --- - A `console.log` placed outside the loo...
*Multi-Agent AI Is Not the Future* --- There is a particular kind of confidence that comes from talking about technology rather than working with it. The frameworks are clean. The roadmaps are cohe...
The most important question I have learned to ask when coding with AI. For the solo builder — the one who owns the vision, the design, the build, and the deployment.
The evolution of Generative AI has created a void and an abyss. A void because there is no corresponding evolution of method to harness the capabilities of AI nor make people learn fast enough to co...
Thankfully, I am not a leader. Never have been. But I live in a world where everyone knows everything. And if some of them don't know everything, they don't know that. So, most of the people I meet ...
Since May 2023, I have been using a range of Generative AI and AI-augmented software to make video clips, short movies and even music videos. As part of the process, I also look for contests and comp...
Pune, October 3, 2025 Meet Koobdoo, the newest member of the Learning Equilibrium team. Koobdoo is curious, restless, and always exploring. Koobdoo's World chronicles Koobdoo's discoveries....
Here is a note from one of my 1994 diaries. I had written this on the first Tuesday after taking over as manager of a 216-seater multi-cuisine restaurant and a 30-seater pub in Mumbai. 1. Record al...
***Pune, Maharashtra India, 28 September 2025, 18:30 pm:*** Yesterday I got an email from Adobe Creative Cloud telling me my account had been suspended because my payment information wasn’t updated....
https://videopress.com/v/qyAsECz4?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=true Generated with MidJourney Journalists think they have the right to decide what is newswo...
About Writer’s Block … ***Pune, Maharashtra India, 8 September 2025, 08:15 am:*** Digital illustration depicting a writer, generated in collaboration with MidJourney. *Can I write a 5000-word art...
Yep. A few weeks ago I took an AI skills assessment—and flunked. Then I took a course to learn how to do it right, and passed. Barely. My skill level? Rookie. For perspective: a rookie is at the bot...
***Pune, Maharashtra, India, 4 April 2025, 1030:*** I go to Starbucks every week day. At least twice a week, I go to more than one outlet depending on where I have a meeting. At least once a month, ...
***Mumbai, Maharashtra India, 1 March 2025, 20.10 pm:*** Just spent two days in Mumbai, mostly attending the Mumbai Tech Week at the Jio World Convention Centre in Bandra Kurla Complex (BKC). Headin...
An introduction to the concept of learning equilibrium and why it matters for corporate training
Image depicting a commercial airline pilot interacting with AI Recently I was working with AI models to generate visuals of airline pilots. As I evaluated outputs, I thought about bias, fact, accura...
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This week’s ‘Conversations with AI’ post is about music. To be precise, it is about playlists. I asked the same set questions to three platforms (ChatGPT, Claude and Stability) and this post presents...
When looking for an image from a Generative AI platform, what’s essential: a good prompt, multiple prompts, or prompting skill? To answer this, let’s compare it to how I’d communicate an image requir...
**Illustration generated with ChatGPT to depict the importance of domain expert collaboration with AI platforms to generate more accurate and high quality assets for use within professional training ...
*Pune-based [The Gamification Company (TGC)](https://thegamificationcompany.com) has just launched a potential epic in the learning industry: a values-based gaming experience. At a time when organisa...
**This illustration was generated with the help of 'Stable Artisan & Assistant app by Stability AI. As per terms, IPR of the image resides with the author** *In this latest in the ‘Conversations wit...
***Pune, Maharashtra, India, 20.36 hours, 24 September 2024:*** So, which AI platform does one go for? Is there one that fits best for all the work that I may want to do? Is there anyone out there w...
These are four images I have generated from four different AI platforms with the same prompt. How would one rate each of these? How would one place these in an order of quality best to least)? Are an...
**Image generated in collaboration with MidJourney to depict a human being conversing with an AI platform** Beyond the fun and excitement, Generative AI is an evolving technology. And at the moment,...
*This is a recent graphic design iteration I had with ChatGPT. I generated this conversational text with GPT-4o, OpenAI’s large-scale language-generation model. My role was client/designer and ChatGP...
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***Pune, India, January 22, 11:30 pm:*** The future of learning is going to be exactly the same as the present and past of learning: a struggle against externally administered moral and social value...
***Pune, India, 19 January, 11:45 pm:*** I play chess every day. For 10-15 minutes, spread across the whole day. I studied and learned to play at an early age, had some minor success in local, schoo...
***Pune, Maharashtra India, 17 January 2024, 10:10 pm:*** Being a compulsive writer and inquisitive busybody, I probe and query all that I encounter, asking questions, answering them, and then askin...
***Pune, India, 16 January, 2024:*** There is a good chance that two people with similar educational backgrounds, similar mental capacities and similar abilities would differ in their opinion of an ...
***Pune, India, 14 January 2024*** Why is it important to define and differentiate between learning, training, and performance? Why is it important to go back to the basics? In May 2023, the World ...
***Pune, Maharashtra India, 13 January 2024, 11:43 pm:*** By definition in the context, ‘train’ is a verb that means to teach or prepare (someone) by means of specific instruction and practice over ...
***Pune, Maharashtra India, 11 January 2024, 10:22 am:*** We live in a time of constant change and conflict. Individuals and organisations are championing and evangelising change, change management,...
***Pune, Maharashtra India, 11 January 2024, 10:55 pm:*** So what is learning? Learning is the process of obtaining knowledge. Learning is the change in behaviour due to accumulated experience. L...
