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Shiva Kakkar

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January 4
  • Your Expertise Is Now a Liability. Here's Why the Intern Outperforms You with AI.

    Stanford, Harvard, and Carnegie Mellon all found the same thing: novices gain 35% productivity with AI while experts gain almost nothing. The Expert's Paradox isn't a bug—it's a predictable consequence of how expertise works. Your decades of knowledge have become the very thing preventing you from using the tools that will define the next decade.

  • The People Deciding India's AI Future Won't Spend ₹400 on It.

    IT Minister Vaishnaw told the IMF their AI readiness classification was wrong. He's right — but not in the way he thinks. The real problem isn't supply-side infrastructure. It's that Indians won't pay for the AI tools that will determine their economic future.

  • Why That ₹4 Lakh IIM Course Won't Make You AI-Ready? - II

    There's a difference between teaching AI and being transformed by AI. IIMs add modules. Jaipuria AI Labs rewired operations. Indians don't pay for learning—they pay to reduce perceived hiring risk. The IIM logo is insurance, not education.

  • Why That ₹4 Lakh IIM Course Won't Make You AI-Ready? - I

    IIM Bangalore ran 'Business Analytics and Intelligence' for 15 batches. In 2025, they renamed it 'Business Analytics & Artificial Intelligence' and called it transformation. Part 1 of 2 on why India's GenAI executive education boom is mostly theater.