This is for all the tinkerers. The ones who can’t stop figuring things out.

Maybe it’s your uncle with his old Jawa bike, fixing oil leaks for the hundredth time. Or your grand father, explaining how the exhaust of a Morris Minor works.  Your father was sure in love with his Rolleiflex SLR? Maybe it’s someone who opens a shortwave radio just to see what’s inside. Or a friend upgrading their PC graphics card or struggling all night with the Linux kernel.

Tinkerers aren’t afraid to get their hands dirty. They live for that “aha” moment when the puzzle finally clicks.

We all know a tinkerer. Maybe you are one. This is my call to become what you can call a Tinker Tonker. We are living through a defining moment. The age of AI. To thrive in this era, we need to tinker with the AI possibilities. We need to let a thousand experiments bloom.

Picture a coachman in the late 1800s.

Every day, he drives the rich man from the village to London. His father did the same. His grandfather too. But now it’s 1885. The rich man has bought a car. Roads are getting paved. The man wants to drive himself. The coachman feels lost. His future is slipping away. He thought his son would inherit his trade. Not anymore.

Yet, unknown to him, the world is exploding with new opportunities. Steam cars, petrol cars, electric cars. Lorries, trucks, buses, motorcycles. All are in the works, just about to get launched. Even zeppelins and aeroplanes are around the corner.

If only he could see this as an age of opportunity. He could become a driver, a mechanic, a salesman, a pilot. He could invent the next version of the automobile. Or better start a company.

The world was opening up in ways he could only imagine. But imagine he must. Similarly in the age of AI, imagine we must.

This is where we are today. AI is our 1885 moment. It will change everything—forever. Standing still isn’t an option.

The only way forward is to experiment. To do something. Anything.

The world is a puzzle. You won’t figure it out immediately. But once you cross from the unknown to the known, you enter rare space. You can move faster than everyone else.

The path forward is not supposed to be smooth. Real breakthroughs often come when we face challenges that seem “too hard” in the moment. Psychologists call this desirable difficulty.

It’s the same principle that drives a tinkerer to keep fiddling with a radio until it works or forces a coder to debug for hours until that one missing semicolon is found. Desirable difficulties slow you down just enough to make you learn deeper and build real mastery. Every failed experiment, every setback is part of the process.

At Bsharp, we’ve lived this philosophy.

Before Gen AI, we built a platform where you could point your phone at a device and get sales or service advice. It worked—sort of. But it was clunky. Customers  didnt adopt. Still, it was our first step. Later, we tried video dubbing. We nailed the dubbing, but the translation was poor. “Operation success. Patient died.” Things didn’t work out that iteration.

But failure taught us something crucial—always focus on the crux of the problem. Not the fluff.

Every problem has a crux. Find it. Solve it. For dubbing, the crux was translation quality. Everything else was irrelevant. The journey will be rough. You will face rejections, cash flow issues, setbacks. You will get “face-punched” by reality.

But persistence wins. And mastering desirable difficulties make you sharper.

Our persistence paid off.

We launched Instant Answers—a private GPT for companies that processes thousands of documents and delivers answers in seconds, securely.

We built LearnBee, a multilingual training engine. Upload a document, and it creates training in multiple languages.

We created Quest, an AI-powered learning adventure.

Each success came after years of failed experiments. Every difficulty forced us to get better.

Curiosity is the spark. Sometimes, it’s as simple as clicking “Sign Up for Free” on a new tool.

Try out tools in Marketing:

Try Synthesia for video.

HeyGen Avatars.

Canva for design.

Try out tools for Sales:

Tavus.io for AI – Human Interaction

Apollo.io for Lead Generation.

Try out tools for Product Management:

Rocket.new for prototyping

Cursor for development

Convert Figma designs to frontend with Locofy.ai

Simulate voice with Elevenlabs

Make product videos with TruPeer

Experiment. Push boundaries.

I was sitting my college library in ‘94 when I was stunned by this ad. It has inspired me everyday since then.

On those lines, heavily borrowing from the Nike ad, I write:

Too often we are scared.
Scared of what we might not be able to do.
Scared of what people might think if we tried.
We let our fears stand in the way of our hopes.
We say no when we want to say yes.
We sit quietly when we want to scream.
And we shout with the others,
when we should keep our mouths shut.
Why?
After all, we do only go around once.
There’s really no time to be afraid.
So stop.
Try something you’ve never tried.
Risk it.
(until this was the Nike original)
(now starts my plug)
Sign up for free.
Speed learn that course.
Compose a song. Share it with your partner.
Write a book. Publish it on the Kindle.
Create that video. Make it viral.
Dream up the software.
Vibe code it as if the world is going to end.
Make it viral.
Render a holographic art masterpiece.
Learn 3D printing. Print jewelry for your mom.
Edit DNA.
(back to Nike original)
Patent something.
For you have nothing to lose,
And everything,
Everything,
Everything to gain.
Just do it.

Be a tinkerer.

Embrace the desirable difficulties.

Try. Fail. Learn. Repeat.

That’s how the future is built.