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Asim Kumar

Asim Kumar

Sep 3, 2026

3:01
Tell us a bit about your background, your journey, so that the audience knows better about you and also about how you came to talking about these things today, especially with your interest in financial markets and all that.
3:17
Yeah, so...
3:20
Like you said it in the intro, my background is in network engineering and security engineering.
3:25
And that's how I started back in the mid-90s.
3:31
Life was great.
3:32
And then I had the best of the best industrial credentials, the degrees, and life was good.
3:40
The 2000 era was there.

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18:17
In that sense, where do I learn something real?
3:16
Tell us a bit about your background, your journey so that the audience knows better about you and also about how you came to talking about these things today, especially with your interest in financial markets and all that.
3:32
Yeah.
3:33
So like you said it in the intro, my background is in network engineering and security engineering, and that's how I started back in the mid-90s.
3:46
Life was great.
3:47
And then I had the best of the best industrial credentials, the degrees, and life was good.
3:56
The 2000 era was there.
4:02
And then we were like indispensable at one time.

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18:32
In that sense, where do I learn something real?
BlessedHOST
21:07
Do you believe AI is changing human psychology as much as it's changing technology?
21:15
Yeah, I mean, AI in today's world, I'll give you a real example on myself again on this front.
21:25
I had a background of a network engineer and security engineer, and then learned the financial markets.
21:34
But I was not a programmer, per se.
21:36
So I was very hardware-based person.
21:39
And then on the financial markets, yes, there was a lot of statistical analysis piece.
21:46
Yes, pretty much all IQ.

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BlessedHOST
29:35
How can someone tell when they're acting from genuine insights rather than simply reacting to uncertainty?
speaker_0NARRATOR
3:42
So that was
3:43
the feeling.
3:44
And then two years later, in 2002, when the dot-com crash really started showing real cracks, and every week was like a pink slip Monday for us.
3:56
And I was seeing people, not just to brag myself, much better credentials, much better than me.
4:03
They were getting laid off and I was like, I could be next.
4:08
And I mentioned I was a network engineer.
4:10
So in networks, when we say any system that doesn't have a backup is a fragile system.
5:57
I

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