The issue is not that you are not capable of doing it…the issue is that I know you are capable but you don’t. A phrase (or a close derivative) that I have found myself repeating often – to karate’s who I taught, to employees, even to family. The starting point for most people is “I …
120 calls. 10 hours a day. 6 days a week. 3,000 dirhams. Stressful work, with irate people at the other end of the telephone. No job stability. Would you do it? Well, I don’t think the JD above even remotely qualifies as anyone’s dream job. So the rephrased question is – Would you be ABLE …
Have you heard of “legacy planning?” Chances are that you have. Or maybe “estate planning” or something similar…back in the days, it used to be called “making a will”. With time, a will sounded too pedestrian for people with a lot of wealth, and so financial planners started to make it sound a lot more …
I get asked often, about how I manage to squeeze in so much in a day. Yoga, handling 5-6 business streams, operations, client calls, karate, reading, blogging, kid, etc. Teach us – they say. Well, I wish I could! I guess they all fit in perfectly with each other. I start my day early not …
I just bought dumbbells over Amazon – delivered in a day. I then looked at my order history, and was pretty amazed at the amount of stuff that has been bought over the past year. From diapers to TVs, quite a varied list! Cut to 20 years back, and every purchase was an event in …
We all have been through the biology class back in school when they taught us how we “see”. We have in fact drawn the two rays of light that create an upside-down image on the retina and the brain somehow correcting the orientation to enable us to see it correctly. Nothing can be further from …
What costs US$ 168 to build? The human body, by some accounts. Actually, an episode in Nova, a science show on PBS, came up with this figure for the value of there fundamental components of the human body. Britain’s Royal Society of Chemistry, in 2013, performed a similar exercise and came up with a figure …
The earth is tilted on it’s axis, and this is what gives rise to the seasons. This is the reason why we do not receive an equal amount of sunlight through the year. The sun “transits” between hemispheres – around the 16th of July it moves towards the southern hemisphere, and around the 14th of …
Ok, a lot of you messaged me yesterday. The general consensus was that blockchain and crypto are no more a mystery to them anymore. Yes, it isn’t like they became experts or something, but there was a mental block – a voice in their heads that said “I cannot understand this. It is too complicated.” …
Let me tell you a story. One day, a couple I know was having lunch with their friends who had come visiting after a long time. The couple had a boy named Keshava and their friends, also a couple, had a little girl who was playfully called Pitu. So Pitu comes along and says “Pappa, …
