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Gyan of gyaanis

At the end of any premier event, there is a rash of posts on Linked in. And therefore, I dread Linkedin the day after the world cup. Leadership lessons from Rohit. Coaching fundamentals by Rahul. How to hold your head under pressure despite being a star on Virat. How to work the team on the Netherlands captain. How to play in adversity on the Afghanistan wicketkeeper. How to serve like the 12th man selflessly. Pages upon pages from people who may have last bowled in kindergarten (or 7th grade). In their gully. With a plastic ball. Underam. In a 5 over match. With one bounce out. Nothing might be factually wrong, but a lot of it is hearsay.

The same thing happened with Chandrayaan. Everybody who had thrown a paper plane in the air was suddenly giving gyan about the work culture at ISRO and the humility of the scientists there. (Again, nothing factually wrong there)

The same thing happened a few years back with the pandemic. And still happening with AI.

Now, note, I absolutely love some great pieces of writing and leadership lessons and AI and whatever, but a lot of times, the gyan someone gives is second hand. It is one thing to write it being in the know, being around when it happened - it is another thing to watch it on TV and write about leadership lessons - when the truth is - we dont know. We really dont know.

Sort of goes on the same vein as I have written before.

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