2026 1

Workshops help AI adoption

To teach a mindshift change like AI adoption, I’ve tried to: Workshop: get them to do it. “Let’s try something. Can you share your screen?” Live-code: show them how. “I’ll share screens and tyep this.” Demo: show what’s possible. “Here’s what I built.” Talk: explain it. “Here’s something we can build.” Interview: ask them about it. “What do you think?” Listen: let them yap. The most effective are on top. ...

2024 1

Should courses be hard or easy?

Here’s a post I shared with the students of my Tools in Data Science course at IITM. This was in response to a student posting that: The design of TDS course lecture videos are designed in such a way that it could be understood only by the data scientists not by the students like me who are entirely new to the field of data science. Though I have gone through 6 weeks of course lecture videos, I am not fully aware of the usage of ChromeDevTools, Bash, Github etc…. ...