<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"> <id>https://vikrantpayal.github.io/</id><title>Vikrant Payal</title><subtitle>Vikrant Payal's blog. Tech notes and thoughts..</subtitle> <updated>2025-12-13T01:02:32+00:00</updated> <author> <name>Vikrant Payal</name> <uri>https://vikrantpayal.github.io/</uri> </author><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="https://vikrantpayal.github.io/feed.xml"/><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" hreflang="en" href="https://vikrantpayal.github.io/"/> <generator uri="https://jekyllrb.com/" version="4.4.1">Jekyll</generator> <rights> © 2025 Vikrant Payal </rights> <icon>/assets/img/favicons/favicon.ico</icon> <logo>/assets/img/favicons/favicon-96x96.png</logo> <entry><title>Interesting people</title><link href="https://vikrantpayal.github.io/posts/interesting-people/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Interesting people" /><published>2025-12-13T00:00:00+00:00</published> <updated>2025-12-13T00:00:00+00:00</updated> <id>https://vikrantpayal.github.io/posts/interesting-people/</id> <content type="text/html" src="https://vikrantpayal.github.io/posts/interesting-people/" /> <author> <name>Vikrant Payal</name> </author> <summary>Qasar Younis</summary> </entry> <entry><title>Good talk - Power of ideas that don't make sense</title><link href="https://vikrantpayal.github.io/posts/power-of-ideas-that-dont-make-sense/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Good talk - Power of ideas that don&amp;apos;t make sense" /><published>2025-11-16T00:00:00+00:00</published> <updated>2025-11-16T00:00:00+00:00</updated> <id>https://vikrantpayal.github.io/posts/power-of-ideas-that-dont-make-sense/</id> <content type="text/html" src="https://vikrantpayal.github.io/posts/power-of-ideas-that-dont-make-sense/" /> <author> <name>Vikrant Payal</name> </author> <category term="leadership" /> <summary>Good talk : Sutherland Rory Sutherland’s talk on customer experience.. A very good resource to understand the perspective of the customer (or user) as compared to how an engineer sees a problem and solution. Sutherland, power of ideas that don’t make sense</summary> </entry> <entry><title>Good resources</title><link href="https://vikrantpayal.github.io/posts/good-resources/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Good resources" /><published>2025-11-10T00:00:00+00:00</published> <updated>2025-11-10T00:00:00+00:00</updated> <id>https://vikrantpayal.github.io/posts/good-resources/</id> <content type="text/html" src="https://vikrantpayal.github.io/posts/good-resources/" /> <author> <name>Vikrant Payal</name> </author> <category term="tech" /> <summary>Good reference material to learn from.. API Basics SWAPI Educative AI/Machine Learning Advanced Keras JAX</summary> </entry> <entry><title>AI: Build vs. Buy</title><link href="https://vikrantpayal.github.io/posts/build-vs-buy-ai/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="AI: Build vs. Buy" /><published>2025-11-10T00:00:00+00:00</published> <updated>2025-11-10T00:00:00+00:00</updated> <id>https://vikrantpayal.github.io/posts/build-vs-buy-ai/</id> <content type="text/html" src="https://vikrantpayal.github.io/posts/build-vs-buy-ai/" /> <author> <name>Vikrant Payal</name> </author> <category term="leadership" /> <summary>When you are building the AI ecosystem of your enterprise, the build vs. buy fork needs deep consideration. Your AI strategy will be driven more by internal factors than by what’s in the market. This is more true for AI solutions than tried-and-tested solutions for standard enterprise use cases for two reasons (1) Irrespective of what it says on the brochure, out of the box AI solutions don’...</summary> </entry> <entry><title>My values at work</title><link href="https://vikrantpayal.github.io/posts/values-at-work/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="My values at work" /><published>2025-02-25T00:00:00+00:00</published> <updated>2025-02-25T00:00:00+00:00</updated> <id>https://vikrantpayal.github.io/posts/values-at-work/</id> <content type="text/html" src="https://vikrantpayal.github.io/posts/values-at-work/" /> <author> <name>Vikrant Payal</name> </author> <category term="leadership" /> <summary>Through the two decades of my work experience, these values have helped me the most. I live by them and encourage my teams to adopt them. Exhibit a sense of urgency. Be responsive. Deliver with speed (speed first, perfection second). Solve problems. Always be clear on what problem you are solving for the company. Create real value for the end customer. The value generated should be prop...</summary> </entry> </feed>
