Nov 1st, 2026 #84
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The One Percent Project
“The skills that require judgment and decision-making will drive far more value.”
— VASUTA AGARWAL
Vasuta Agarwal — moved from chip design to McKinsey to InMobi, and now leads revenue at Gnani.ai, an AI company, thinks AI will automate information gathering, analysis, and many entry-level tasks, but judgment stays human. Knowing things will matter less than knowing what to do with them. After two decades in technology and leadership, she approached her new AI role like a beginner and went back to first principles: “You can never assume that you now know enough.” Worth your 45 minutes.
Two for the week
+Charlie Munger — "A Lesson on Elementary Worldly Wisdom”
Data needs a frame to be useful. Munger: “If the facts don’t hang together on a latticework of theory, you don’t have them in a usable form.”
+ Richard Hamming — “You and Your Research”
Hamming moved fields on purpose: “I shifted from numerical analysis, to hardware, to software, and so on, periodically, because you tend to use up your ideas.”
“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”
Best
Pritish
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