Parag Arora

“Chain of Thoughts” approach to generating personalized answer from LLM

Lets take an example where our agent has to answer my question How to hire a CTO? Below are the steps that you should code in the agent to achieve the desired results: Step 1: Generate Step-by-Step

Content Productivity System

In today’s digital world, the need to produce high-quality content quickly and efficiently is becoming increasingly important. Businesses are looking for ways to stay competitive and increase their

Risk

Risk is the fear of losing something. Calculated risk is knowing the probability of losing and acting. Mitigating risk is decreasing the probability of losing. Taking risk is managing your fear of

Goals-based management ( cutting through random shit )

Doing 10x efforts require a lot of patience and control to not do 1x or 0.5x things. And there has never been any clear playbook to do 10x. To do 10x, you have to only set goals you see as 10x and

Employee Feedbacks

There are a lot of actions happening in the company, by people. People are just faces and never judge people or try to classify people. People keep growing or changing. Just keep seeing their actions

Presence: Future of collaboration

What does the future of collaboration look like? Surely not just restricted to just audio and video. Below is an image of what I collected defines presence for people I talked to this weekend: So

Investor or business advisor values to look for in a seed raise

A successful pre-seed raise sets a lot of foundation for the eventual success of the organization. I will stay away from feedbacks of startups who conclude and are convinced that money is just money

Startups that survive crashes

Startups that have survived and will survive arent the ones that are just created based on a market opportunity. They are created by passionate individuals who have envisioned the world after a few

Socio-psychological factors for viral engagement

Human beings are instinctively social creatures. Social media apps, largely since Facebook, have categorically tapped into some basic elements of social interaction, and brought it into cyberspace;

Good to Great mindmap

Fetching conversational sentiments in human-human chat

Sentiment analysis has recently become core part of analytics in chats between customers and brands specially in ones with measure as customers experience like in hospitality. Lot of research has

Creating your own blockchain based currency for solving problems in pure decentralised way

Why do you need cryptocurrency? We have been often asked with the one big question on how to create your own Bitcoin like blockchain for solving a niche problem. My answer to such visionary

Living the dream

People watch their own photos so much over Facebook. They like seeing them from 3rd person perspective and truly enjoy the person behind the happy moments and empathise with the sad moments. There is

Visualise

Stop, step back, relax and answer one question what is one thing which you are focused for the whole day? Why is it important to you? Is that your goal? If thats your goal, have you craved enough

You will be the person what you click

You are being categorised every time you read any news or watch any video. Spent 1 minute extra in one of those faking articles website, you are being categorised as a person who likes articles from

Want to be an idea machine?

Want to be an athlete? Run everyday. And be disciplined about it. Want to be a great musician, play music everyday. Want to learn things in your life, read an hour everyday Want to be an idea

Have goals…

Hard work without goals is like players with no score to make. Have goals. And have goals not just for success, have goals to be the person what is needed to achieve those goals. Goals are just

Productive Idea Flow

Productive Idea flow is when ideas keep on building over each other. You arrive at a good idea which is improvement over your current product and spend some time visualising how everything will look

On code commit history

Ever want to check quality of code, always start with quality of code commits. Code commits are generally last priority given by developers in the overall quality maintenance of code. A good code

Being successful

A very noble thought has come to a mind today lets be successful. The only problem is the mind does not know what is being successful. Lets drill down to what is being successful. Being successful

Bots is all about data, and being hungry enough to collect that

Akhil wants to buy a phone which does not heat up fast, as his phone is to be used in his Uber always engaged and in sunlight. His favourite ecommerce website can’t understand what he is looking

Maintaining forked private repo of a public repo

Lets assume you working on a public github repo e.g., https://github.com/parag/simplenlg-python3 . You have done git clone this repo but now you want to extend this library but privately. You could

Picking right messaging broker

I had implemented my last company (Plustxt) product over eJabbered. It worked well for couple of hundred thousand users but after I sold the company to Paytm and implemented for over 50+ million

Messaging aggregation platform and challenges

A messaging aggregation platform is a platform that is capable of receiving and sending messages to multiple (and popular) messaging platforms. Existing messaging apps installed on user devices act

Localizing ReactJS static apps

Since we are so much focused on messaging layer, internationalisation and localisation is mission critical for us. We explored lots of solutions for incorporating messages for multiple languages but

The Droid Age

Translation of the wisest words I think I will ever hear or read. Surely we will create droids one day who will serve us everything we think we desire Surely we will make their body look like us,

I am perfect?

When I am happy for I am perfect is the pivot when I became imperfect As perfect is perfect only to imperfect For the perfect, its just being me And its only the one who is not real I who in duality

Favourite Food

And again I am asked, about my favourite food Blessed me smile, in no search of answer For if there is an answer, I open those gates Those gates of stupidity, for favourite was past Tasteless I seek,

On Entrepreneurship and learnings from Swami Vivekananda

Solution to all problems and living in a higher state is very simple though under-rated it is surrendering. Surrendering to an idea, a cause, a desire to knowledge, or just any work you are doing in

Brainstuck

And I want to go across the ocean And look for a seat by the garden as now And pick up a book like one I am reading now Go through some pages and keep thinking on those As I am just doing And then I

Happiness fulfilment – only way to create successful companies

Everything what humans do is for the selfish interest of feeling happy which is fine and an accepted fact. Even public services are also done for the happiness. People consider happiness as a feeling

Last hour of the day

Last hour is the most important hour of the day. It should not be dedicated to a specific task for the day. It should be kept absolutely free, preferably quite, alone with a good music or walking or

Compound interest value of efforts

Making disciplined effort is extremely important. Pick out the projects that matters to you most and keep dedicating small or large time to them everyday. Fix amount of time you will dedicate. These

Biggest misery

Biggest misery of human is when he wants something desperately, but once he gets it realise that he did not want it. This is also called addiction and is completely opposite of being a rational human

Being industrious

There is no way to be happy, rich and wealthy without being industrious. We need to let go of every distraction idea and focus on being industrious on one thing at a time. Having the right focus and

A relaxed mind

Being relaxed always is most under rated yet it is the biggest thing that can make difference. A relaxed mind is the best state of mind and most productive. 24 hours of being relaxed is more

Restlessness in enterprises

Restlessness is the most anti-productive feeling. It is only beneficial for people who are just put on work to show restlessness to get work done. Also, that is a very bad way to get work done. It is

Startup perspective to AAP failure

[Also published at nextbigwhat here: http://www.nextbigwhat.com/aap-startup-scaling-up-297/ ] We have been seeing many thought leaders and risk takers failing in industry. They are able to gain good

Art of naming your users in ideation process

[Published on nextbigwhat.com here http://www.nextbigwhat.com/user-persona-ideation-and-product-attributes-297 ] In the initial days after I passed out from IIT, used to have dozens of business plans

Productivity Tip: Say it and Just do it (don’t just do it)

Dont just do it, say it and just do it. The biggest productivity tip has always been to focus on what you are doing. But thats not as simple as it sounds like. With connected information age, we are

Why I became a struggling Vegeterian

If a group of beings from another planet were to land on Earth beings who considered themselves as superior to you as you feel yourself to be to other animals would you concede them the rights over

Diwali Celebrations

Was one of the best Diwali since last few years. Had Anushi and Mom, Dad. Mom Dad had specially planned visit to Bangalore for I could not go

Behind your next disruptive innovation

[Published at nextbigwhat.com here] The frustration of finding an innovation is killing your innovation. The frustration of thinking how your competitor or peers are coming up with those innovative

Plan for big data and real time contextual analysis (and drop conventional google search optimizations )

[Update: check Steve Jobs video at the end of this article] To most of the discussions happening at the time, big data is another fad. Serious players know that world is now changing, and will be

I live on I Can Do It Street

This is the best story I have ever heard. Story is famously known as leaving the city of regret. Dont know the original source, so just putting it below. I had not really planned on taking a trip

Gaetan Dugas Strategy for viral marketing – Presentation template

Before you go and read the presentation template, please note: I do not intend to present a strategy to spread HIV, but to learn from Gaetan Dugas case study Guiding Principle: Any viral campaign

Dear entrepreneur, making money is easy !

(published on nextbigwhat here) If you are really hurt by reading the title and planning to share this with wtf, please hold on and read more. You might be struggling from last 2-3 years building an

How to use laptop – good posture practices

I have been developing a back pain lately. Two days vacation at Wayanad with absolutely zero back pain made me realize it was bad working posture. I work on a laptop which adds up to the problem

Looking for a product manager for your startup? Find a conflict manager

on nextbigwhat here A startup is an experiment turned to a company designed to grow fast and achieve the purpose it was intended to serve in its lifecycle. So, if you call your company a startup, you

Hello world!

Hello World! Getting started with my blog deleting my previous entries. As I am writing this blog post, following logical questions came to my mind Why should I write another blog? I have always