Anshul Kapoor

Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees. $30 per seat per month. $1.4 million annually. I called it "digital transformation." The board loved that phrase. They approved it in eleven minutes. No one asked what it would actually do. Including me. I told everyone it would "10x productivity." That's not a real number. But it sounds like one. HR asked how we'd measure the 10x. I said we'd "leverage analytics dashboards." They stopped asking. Three months later I checked the usage reports. 47 people had opened it. 12 had used it more than once. One of them was me. I used it to summarize an email I could have read in 30 seconds. It took 45 seconds. Plus the time it took to fix the hallucinations. But I called it a "pilot success." Success means the pilot didn't visibly fail. The CFO asked about ROI. I showed him a graph. The graph went up and to the right. It measured "AI enablement." I made that metric up. He nodded approvingly. We're "AI-enabled" now. I don't know what that means. But it's in our investor deck. A senior developer asked why we didn't use Claude or ChatGPT. I said we needed "enterprise-grade security." He asked what that meant. I said "compliance." He asked which compliance. I said "all of them." He looked skeptical. I scheduled him for a "career development conversation." He stopped asking questions. Microsoft sent a case study team. They wanted to feature us as a success story. I told them we "saved 40,000 hours." I calculated that number by multiplying employees by a number I made up. They didn't verify it. They never do. Now we're on Microsoft's website. "Global enterprise achieves 40,000 hours of productivity gains with Copilot." The CEO shared it on LinkedIn. He got 3,000 likes. He's never used Copilot. None of the executives have. We have an exemption. "Strategic focus requires minimal digital distraction." I wrote that policy. The licenses renew next month. I'm requesting an expansion. 5,000 more seats. We haven't used the first 4,000. But this time we'll "drive adoption." Adoption means mandatory training. Training means a 45-minute webinar no one watches. But completion will be tracked. Completion is a metric. Metrics go in dashboards. Dashboards go in board presentations. Board presentations get me promoted. I'll be SVP by Q3. I still don't know what Copilot does. But I know what it's for. It's for showing we're "investing in AI." Investment means spending. Spending means commitment. Commitment means we're serious about the future. The future is whatever I say it is. As long as the graph goes up and to the right.

@TARUNspeakss Because Hindu khatre me hain, pehle unhe bachana hai otherwise all this is useless.

Don't - die - kill each other - destroy our biosphere (planet) - underestimate aligning AI Thoughts?! #DontDie #AGI #doesnegativethinkingwork

@deepigoyal Offsetting carbon emissions can make you a carbon neutral company but saying '100% green deliveries' is 100% misleading. It would also be good to know the number being offset and if it only accounts for delivery or other activities as well! Like recycling MORE than 100% 😜

We offset more than 100% of the carbon our delivery fleet generates. We have been doing this for the last few years, while taking the required steps to reach our promise of Net Zero by 2030. Also, we recycle more than 100% of the plastic used for food deliveries. At the same time, we are making significant progress on cutting down the usage of plastic being used for food packaging. There’s no greenwashing. Public companies like us cannot lie. There are enough public institutions to keep us honest and accountable.

Aadhar is Schrödinger’s ID - Mandatory for everything and yet not proof of anything.

@nsitharaman @FinMinIndia It is interesting (and shameful) how quickly GOI was ready to implement heavy tax on #crypto and impose kyc on users in the name of "regulation" without implementing any actual #regulation to safeguard the citizens interests. @IndiasCrypto

@elonmusk Resembles the state of X these days

Pretty sure I saw this scene in The Joker

In today's edition, @TheMornStandard speaks with studio Lopez Design’s Anthony Lopez and Anshul Kapoor to uncover the intricacies of creating Central Vista’s wayfinding signage @santwana99 @Shahid_Faridi_ @Paro_Ghosh Read:newindianexpress.com/cities/delhi/2…

This is the Château Frontenac in Quebec, towering more than 130 metres above the city streets below and inspired by the castles of Medieval France. But style alone isn't what makes it so impressive. Architecture isn't just about what you build — it's also about where you build. There's no single way to design a beautiful building or city, but there is one surefire way to make an individual building or whole town more interesting. And that is by designing it around the local environment: a river, valley, rockface, forest, or some other prominent feature. Venice is built on one hundred islands in a shallow lagoon and Mont Saint-Michel on a tidal island. Regardless of the style or age of their architecture, it is partly their location and how they have adapted that makes them innately *interesting* to us. For most of history it wasn't an aesthetic choice to build in "interesting" locations, but a necessity. Bagnoregio in Italy, Constantine in Algeria, Castellfollit de la Roca in Spain, Ganvie in Benin, Al Hajarayn in Yemen, Petra in Jordan... the list goes on. All of these towns were built out of necessity, whether defensive, because it was the only source of water, the only available land for construction, in the interests of seclusion, or proximity to the coast. People say modern architecture is boring, and that may well be true, but this is at least in part because it is usually used to build cities of repetitive, identical structures in incredibly uninteresting locations. Being boring, in such circumstances, is hard to avoid. So why does adapting buildings and cities to the local environment make them interesting? Too much of one thing — of anything — is boring. This rule applies to everything: food, music, films... as humans we are inherently drawn to variation, variation being a law of nature. For the natural world is endlessly changeful, filled with minutely differing details and subtle shifts in shape, size, colour, and texture. The canopy of a tree, the ocean, a meadow, the clouds, the tides, the weather — we are accustomed to delight in variation and become bored by monotony. Whereas a city of identical buildings — regardless of their style — laid out in a uniform pattern will become monotonous, a building or town shaped by local geography engages our natural, inescapable aesthetic preference for that which is varying, unexpected, and different. Up to a point it doesn't even matter what style of architecture you use in such locations; the location itself means that even the most boring buildings can't prevent it from being a fascinating place. Yanjin in China, built along a narrow river gorge and thus known as the world’s narrowest city, is a perfect example of that. Architecture is about solving problems, but when the conditions that shape our solution are the same, the result will also be the same. And so the beauty of architecture and urban design according to local environmental conditions is that the world itself is a treasury of endless variation. No two places, even within the same region, are identical; every river, hill, forest, plain, and coastline is different. Which means that every time we adapt architecture to the idiosyncrasies of local geography we create something necessarily unique — because the conditions of the problem are unique. All of this is why fantasy and science fiction films usually depict settlements in unusual locations, adapted to striking geographical features. It is, simply, much more interesting, atmospheric, and characterful. Why not apply the same thinking to real life? It won't solve all the problems of urban design and there are times when it may not be possible, but when we build according to the laws of nature — of variation — by choosing interesting locations and adapting to the environment, the world becomes a much more interesting place. Which brings us back to the Château Frontenac. It wasn't constructed on a fifty metre-tall hill overlooking Quebec out of defensive necessity; this is a hotel built in 1893. The decision about its location was purely aesthetic. And, over a century later, it seems hard to argue that they didn't make a good choice...

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@AnkitaSingh87 @GoFirstairways @GoFirstairways seems to be the worst of the lot, even among the low cost carriers. Not informing customers of the time change borders is completely negligent, how are they allowed to run thier operations like this?! @AAI_Official

Reached airport and got to know my @GoFirstairways flight is rescheduled again, delayed by 3+ hours! Without any msg/ email! Mr #Nesswadia #wadiagroup please shut down your shitty airlines & meanwhile change your tagline to #youcomelast Scene at Delhi airport! Shame

DDA and WWF India are organising ‘Butterfly Trail’ on 12th November, 2022 amidst the urban greens of Delhi at Sanjay Van. This is a step taken to build a sense of appreciation for the city’s rich flora and fauna. #WWFIndia #ButterflyTrail

You know that @0xPolygon is getting into the fabric of mainstream when @Mastercard casually demos their products on Polygon Testnet🫡 during the largest fintech festival Determined and relentless steps towards #MassAdoption by @0xPolygon community Let’s keep building folks!

So the govt's left with just two important advice on how people should act against #AirPollution 1.Avoid outdoor physical activity 2.Remain indoors & keep activity levels low 😂 #DELHIPOLLUTION #DelhiAQI #DelhiHealthEmergency @ArvindKejriwal @BhagwantMann @narendramodi @NPCCHH

They're back! Who better to test the latest in martial arts technology than the cast of Netflix's @CobraKaiSeries? Watch as @jb_mixmatch, @GianniDecenzo, @PeytonList, @Xolo_Mariduena and @MaryMMouser punch and crane kick these gadgets, rating them along the way.

The time is now #DigitalIndia #FTW

May the force be with them #iran vs #Moralpolicing #MashaAmini