August 2025 – Re-inventing by @rishad
4 posts published by Rishad during August 2025| Re-inventing by @rishad
4 posts published by Rishad during August 2025| Re-inventing by @rishad
1. Change sucks. When one has to change one has to unlearn and learn. Twist oneself into new shapes. Make mistakes. Look foolish. Be uncertain. Change is not easy nor good. It sucks. But irrelevance is even worse. 2. Inner Dinosaur Disease ( IDD) All of us suffer from Inner Dinosaur Disease. We ourselves struggle to change and so we do the IDD 2-Step Step one is the Deflection Dance. We blame our inability to change on our bosses, a terrible work culture, stuck in the mud clients, P and L pre...| Re-inventing by @rishad
Selling is critical not just to business but to life. We all need to advocate for our point of view, convince others to align with us and to separate ourselves and our companies from others thoroug…| Re-inventing by @rishad
mage by MidJourney One of the dozen topics I have written on over the past five years is how to be more effective. You can access all the best pieces in section 4 here: https://rishadtobaccowala.com/100 The 3 keys to being effective are 1) leveraging the only asset one has which is time, 2) making sure that every interaction has the ability to be a tattoo moment, and 3) soaring through feedback. 1. Time is the essential asset. Franz Kafka wrote “The meaning of life is that it stops”. How ...| Re-inventing by @rishad
Image using Midjourney This 260th edition of “The Future Does Not Fit in the Containers of the Past” marks its 5th year anniversary ( 5 X 52= 260). Over these past 5 years the content has spanned a dozen different topics including The Future, Managing Change, Creating Great Cultures and Future Forward Organizations, Leadership, How to Upgrade Our Mental Operating Systems, Strategy, Rethinking Media, Marketing and Creativity, Selling Better, Personal Growth, Wisdom, and Managing Careers. T...| Re-inventing by @rishad
( View from downtown campus of Northwestern University Medill School.) The Future of Work Summit by Northwestern University’s Medill School in Chicago was held yesterday (Saturday, July 26 ) and br…| Re-inventing by @rishad
This is the third of a series on Human in an AI Age. The first post Roots and Wings reminded us that humans are a unique combination of memories and dreams, of what we were and what we are becoming. Roots and Wings is about our distinct journeys that define our humanity. The post illustrated how the roots and wings approach can help us connect and resonate in an AI age. The second post Voices reflected on the combination of creative expression, taste, curation, connection and inspira...| Re-inventing by @rishad
This is the second of a series in how to thrive as a human in an AI Age. While AI is deeply significant, doubling in capability every seven months, and changing and impacting every industry and hum…| Re-inventing by @rishad
This is the first of a multi-post series on Human in the Age of AI. 18 months ago I wrote AI is Under-Hyped. The piece was prescient and today AI capability is doubling every 7 months and has surpassed Human Intelligence. The new term is Super Intelligence ( a more reasonable goal than AGI). So its no longer AI + HI where HI is human intelligence because Human Intelligence has been left in the dust. HI will still matter but it will be Human Intuition. Human Inventiveness. Human Insight. Human...| Re-inventing by @rishad
In Colombo, Sri Lanka, lies a cemetery containing the grave of Arthur Charles Clarke who wrote 2001: A Space Odyssey. The gravestone has this phrase inscribed on it: “He never grew up, but he never stopped growing” Arthur C Clarke remained forever young. By ensuring a growth mindset our companies and ourselves can also attempt to remain forever young. Our mobile operating system has upgraded itself 18 times in the past 18 years (Apple) or 16 times (Android) All around us software is const...| Re-inventing by @rishad
In an article for The Verge, Nilay Patel its editor in chief, noted that in an interview with Ben Thompson Mark Zuckerberg described a vision where a client comes to Meta and says “I want customers…| Re-inventing by @rishad
Work is central to the human experience and along with health and relationships is a key to happiness. Work is in the midst of the greatest change in decades and is expected to change more between …| Re-inventing by @rishad
