Most people haven’t.But his story is one of the most remarkable tales of raw genius the world has ever known. Ramanujan was born in 1887 in Erode, a small village in southern India.His family was poor, deeply religious, and part of a traditional Brahmin community. He had almost no formal education in mathematics, he couldn’t…

The other day, I overheard my wife helping our kids with their math homework. They’re nine, old enough to be tackling complex arithmetic, but something in that moment brought me back to the basics. She was explaining the structure. The logic. The importance of rules like where the decimal point sits or how numbers must…

https://ibenps.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/number.mp4 In one of the more hauntingly profound video clips circulating online, a frail but sharp-eyed Arthur M. Young leans forward and utters a question that sounds almost biblical: “What is a number that a man may know it, and a man that he may know a number?” At first glance, it may appear poetic…

The Cost of a Click: Why Teams Skip the Easiest Win in Group Chat platforms like Slack, WhatsApp and iMessege We now live in a world where it takes more cognitive effort to ignore a Group Chat Message than to acknowledge it. And yet, radio silence. Inside most companies, messages are read, skimmed, absorbed… and…

Over the last three decades, I have worked across the full spectrum of business, from mega-corporations in the United States and Vietnam to nimble startups with teams that could fit around a single table. I have sat in rooms with global CEOs and I have watched interns experience their first onboarding session. Across countries, industries,…

Understanding ChatGPT models is like knowing who to ask for help on your team. Some are fast talkers. Some are deep thinkers. Some are great at visuals. Here’s a breakdown of each model as if they were people you work with every day. GPT-4o – The Superhuman Assistant This is the all-rounder. Smart, fast, and…