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“Appa, I prepared well and did well on my exams… but why is Mom worried about Rank 1?”
I know every parent wants their child to be a top scorer—it’s a pride, a benchmark, a proof of hard work paying off.

But this story—it became my answer in this AI world.

“If everything goes perfectly, it’s not a real demo. The bumps make it real — just like life.“ My mentor said that once. We didn’t fully understand it until that day.

We were presenting an AI demo to a key customer—a product intelligence system that could answer business questions in plain English. We’d practiced for 2 days. My team knew exactly what to ask the AI chatbot, what to expect, how to explain each feature.

The call started on time. The customer’s Head of Engineering was listening closely. Everything went smoothly… until he asked about a product variation we hadn’t tuned the system prompt for.

The agent took extra time to process the request… but generated the wrong query.
Then it said: “I don’t know.” (as per explicit query validation logic)

For one second, the room felt heavier.

And my lead started explaining the reason behind it.

But the customer interrupted her.
“No, wait. This is exactly what we need. When the agent doesn’t know, it should say so — not hallucinate.”

Silence.

He continued: “Every AI powered chatbot we’ve evaluated claims to answer all questions. But you know what kills us? When it’s confidently wrong.

That moment shifted something in me.

#SimpleSecrets: Trust begins with honesty, not perfection in all things.

Three months later, I got a ping from my client partner through LinkedIn:

“All well?”

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That’s when I found out—the customer wanted to start the PoC. They were ready. But here’s what I realized in that moment:

The demo worked. The trust was built. The business opportunity came—the “Rank 1” moment I’d worked for. But by the time it arrived, I couldn’t celebrate that winning moment — I must give full credit to my team Abinaya and Shrish who made the heavy lift.

That signal I was listening to wasn’t the success of the demo. It was something deeper—a call to step away and pursue a new path.

And maybe that’s what my mentor meant all along:
The bumps make it real. Not just in the demo, but in life.

The waiting. The silence.

The big bumps teach you something the smooth wins never will—that success isn’t always about what you gain, but about what you learn from the journey

So here’s what I tell my son:
Getting Rank 1 is like winning momentum. It feels like the destination. But it’s not. The real destination is what that rank—or that delayed win—helps you decode your actual signal.

What signal are you listening to?
The one that promises the prize… or the one that asks you to choose a path that serves something bigger than the prize?”

#SimpleSecrets #EmotionalIntelligence #AI #Leadership #Creative #SignalStories #Parents

For 30 years, I believed a lie.

My Grandma’s Village.

Like my 2-year-old sister, the rain kept drizzling — softly, endlessly.
I was upset, like a typical 1st-standard boy during Diwali time.
No sun. No crackers.

“Meesaikkara Mama (Moustache Uncle)” — that’s what we called him.
I still don’t know his real name. But I remember that big moustache,
the stylish way he touched it before speaking,
and his commanding presence that made people feel a little fear — but more respect.

He had come home that week when my parents had to travel.
He saw me sitting alone near the veranda.
He smiled, took my hand, and walked me to the roadside bazaar — 
and without a word, bought me four packets of “28-wala Redstone Bijili crackers.” ₹5 each.

Around 3 PM that afternoon — that joyful moment changed everything.
I heard that familiar sound: ‘dum… damal… dumil.’
Those were magic — Uncle’s crackers.

But within an hour, the rains began again — and didn’t stop.

One day before Diwali, my grandmother gave me ₹10.
I went alone to the same shop and bought two packets of the 28-wala crackers. 

Driving back on my imaginary bike — mouth buzzing “drrrrrrrrr’”
one hand holding the crackers as the rain started again.

That evening, I lit them, expecting the same magic.
“Shhsszzz…” — the Bijili said nothing.
No spark, no light — just a faint whisper lost in the drizzle.
Uncle’s crackers — those were already gone.
Beautiful explosions. Perfect sounds.
But mine?
The same shopkeeper who gave my uncle the good ones had sold me old, damp packets.

That Diwali, I felt cheated. Abandoned.
Lonely in a way only a first-grader can feel.

But 30+ years later, I realized — while working with data and AI models — 
that I was overfit on a belief: Same source + Same path = Same output.

The shopkeeper didn’t cheat me. 
The conditions changed — the context shifted — and I was too young to notice.

Sometimes, we make the same mistake — be it in career or personal life.

We remember Uncle’s crackers.
We remember that one success path.
We expect to replicate it, forgetting that the weather and time are different now.

Maybe your crackers are failing too — not because you’re not trying hard enough, but because you’re still expecting the same conditions to exist.

The lesson?
Check the weather first.

#Leadership #CreativeThinking #EmotionalIntelligence

P.S: Edited with AI Assistants

Parenting, AI, and the Ethics of Direction.

2015, MONDAY, 8:15 AM

I was nervous.
Not for a client meeting or a production issue.

It was KG tension — my son’s first day at school.

We walked through the gates together. He paused near the entrance, whispered a small prayer instilled by my wife, and then stepped inside.

A few seconds later, I realized — I was standing outside.
His smile was gone, tiny raindrops forming in his eyes.

For a moment, I wanted to run back inside — but I paused.

The pre-school teacher looked at me and signalled with a smile,

“Please carry on. We’ll take care.”

That moment — every parent has felt it once, and every child has lived it.

Life sometimes forces you to stand outside and watch from a distance.
It’s not rejection. It’s transition.

Year 2025

That feeling? It’s back — in a different form.

I felt it again watching AI walk faster into our world — 
summarising reports in seconds, designing things we couldn’t imagine that quickly, making decisions we once thought only humans could.

That same quiet ache. Standing outside the gate.

But then I realized something:
AI isn’t scary. It’s a ‘hyper-active’ student 

A student collectively trained by all of us — reflecting what we feed it,
predicting what comes next based only on what we’ve shown it.

From every book, every page, every post, every comment, every image.

It learns what’s next — but who’s teaching what’s right?

And that’s when it hit me:
This time, I’m not just a parent dropping off.
I’m a teacher who can still shape what happens inside.

AI is still learning from us — from everything digital.
So the question is: what kind of teacher will we be?

And like any student, if we don’t want shallow thinking,
we must seed deeper values —gratitude, empathy, ethics, responsibility.

Because if we miss teaching those values,
AI will grow like untrained children — smart and fast, but emotionless. Addiction with glitters.

But if we teach right, AI could evolve like our best kids — smart, curious, kind, and conscious.

So here’s what I’m doing:

When I see something fake — I report it.
When I see something real — I support it.
When time, monthly or weekly — I share my lessons.
not as an expert,
but as a parent who knows: “what you seed is what grows.”

My son is a teenager now — he doesn’t need advice anymore.
And AI doesn’t need more data.

Both need direction.

Seed the values you want to see in the world. 💚

Step inside!

#ResponsibleAI #EmotionalIntelligence #CreativeThinking #LifeLessons #AIEthics #SimpleSecrets

🥎 I always pick the misfit (low-bounce) tennis balls at our local mall — the ones that don’t spring up like the standard ones.

When I saw them back in stock today, I immediately grabbed 5. Not for price — but for purpose.

Here’s why:

My son and I play cricket on our terrace. Normal tennis balls bounce too high, flying over the edge. We’ve already lost 4+ that way.

But the misfit ball? It works perfectly. It gives us quality time together — without mobiles, without pressure — just play.

This simple choice got me thinking about my Ei4AiBooks journey.

While everyone chases “perfect” AI — the kind that answers everything instantly and automates faster — I’m intentionally building misfit AI.

What do I mean?

At Ei4AiBooks, we measure success differently. Not by how fast AI responds, but by how many hidden contexts it reveals that others might miss.

In Healthcare, instead of listing pharmacological actions — it reveals hidden patterns: “Why is medicine less effective when the emotional loneliness of elders is pressing more?”

In Marketing, instead of just answering “How to increase sales?” — it asks: “What connects your customer to buy — Price or Trust?”

Like that low-bounce ball keeps our game going instead of flying away – it keeps you engaged in understanding the ‘why’ behind the ‘what’.

Because sometimes, the solution that doesn’t look perfect on paper is the one that fits your actual needs.

The real question:

Are we building AI to make us smarter — or just faster 🥎?

Creative Reminder ✨: Sometimes, imperfection is where the most meaningful insights lie. It’s not about chasing perfection — it’s about finding purpose.

#CreativeThinking #AI #Innovation #PurposeDriven Ei4AiBooks #BusinessInsights #SelfTalk #SimpleSecrets #OneThingToKnow

P.S: Edited with Claude, ChatGPT