Serendipity and Learning

My year end reflection - on AI.  Proceed with caution: To be fair, I don't know much about AI. I know ChatGPT (I mean, who doesnt. Even my cat does). I have used it and found myself alternating between being blown away and feeling meh.  I have seen midjourney images (never tried) and AI driven story lines and plot lines. Quite impressive really. And apparently it has won a creativity contest as well.  And at a conference recently someone said, AI will be like electricity in future - that was a different way of looking at it. It could become as ubiquitous as electricity, but like anything these days will have a steep tab attached to it. And the moment that happens, it will be preserve of a few who can afford it.  Organizations will have (many already have) co-pilots enabled - and beautiful mails will be read and replied to by AI. (Human communication hopefully will keep pace.) But keeping all that aside, can AI really replace L&D professionals? Let us look at the points of engag

This year was a bad book year. The year I suffered from readers block . So, taking stock of what I read this year.  Five Seats of Power by Raghu Ananthanarayan Invaders and Infidels by Sandeep Balakrishna Hindu Rashtra by Anand Ranganathan Humble Inquiry by Edgar Schein (re-read) Navigating Polarities by Brian Emerson and Kelly Lewis Trust and Inspire Stephen Covey The Wisdom of the Bullfrog by Admiral William Mc Raven The Pathless Path by Paul Millerd Night sky tells the time by Prof V Krishnamurthy From Manjunath to Manjamma by Harsha Bhatt Four thousand weeks by Oliver Burkeman Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows Seeing Systems by Barry Oshry The Darkening age: Christian destruction of the classical world by Catherine Nixey Build by Tony Fadell I have more books in my to-read list than ever before A translation of the Kumarasambhava by MR Kale Shankaras translation of the Viveka Chudamani Upanishads by Dr. Radhakrishnan The systems thinker by Albert Rutherford The Bhagavad Gita b