I opened Wikipedia yesterday to check a few facts about Web3 (whatever that is) and saw an earnest donation request by Wikipedia. I am not a philanthropist on any scale and I had shared an interesting story of one of the few of my noble deeds. But I never [...]
Come December and we start thinking about business diary for the new year. "What do I want to do about it in the new year?" "Am I going to continue the way I did in the ending year or do something different?" I always had one major issue with [...]
20th November is my youngest brother's date of birth. Of late, surprisingly triggered by our mom, we all, including my two brothers, are into the fad of wishing each other in the family on birthdays at the stroke of midnight. Habitually, I had set an alarm for myself, to [...]
Recently, I read a wonderful quote by Shane Parrish, "Ideas are cheap. Execution is expensive. The ability to execute separates people, not the ability to come up with ideas." So ideas are vital but have no meaning till you execute them and thus the rhetoric! I couldn't agree more and in fact, [...]
Call it pandemic or endemic, remote work is not going to go away in hurry! Remote work may look like an interesting proposition as no one is breathing fire on your neck and you get flexibility at work. But it is not that it does not have its own [...]
Could a title be more cliched than this! But the story indeed is of names. Think about it. Naming things is not an easy task. Most of the time it is problem of plenty, but it is a problem for sure. Think of geometry when you drew diagrams, you [...]
Our fond memories now get captured digitally in photo or video form. But it wasn't so till ten to fifteen years back. So most of us still have loads of shoeboxes full of photo prints - invaluable memories but locked up somewhere and unavailable to share with others. There [...]
Although I now live in the coastal area of India, I had not seen the sea till the age of 20 years. I grew at a place that may appear at the center of the Indian peninsula, in a careless look. So there was no chance of sighting the [...]
The people who have got their act together, don’t get distracted easily with trivial things. But even they find it difficult to focus. The primary reason they can’t focus on the work at hand is the thought of all that work, that they aren’t doing. The world around us [...]
Most meetings end, agreeing unanimously at least on one point and that is when to meet next! Phew, we have another meeting! And then more meetings!! Meetings are an essential part of our work and sending meeting requests an essential chore. Most often sending meeting requests is a thankless [...]