Another of my co-workers amazed me today. Our workplace is quite different from most. We work like a startup, even though we are well-established in our domain. We like to automate processes, make them more efficient, more lean, more easier for us to work with. And so we work on our tasks, and also some …
पण्डितो अनन्तपारं किल शब्द-शास्त्रं स्वल्पं तथायुर् बहवश् च विघ्नाः ।सारं ततो ग्राह्यम् अपास्य फल्गु हंसैर् यथा क्षीरम् इवाम्बुध्यात् ॥ ६ ॥ anantapāraṃ kila śabda-śāstraṃ svalpaṃ tathāyur bahavaś ca vighnāḥ |sāraṃ tato grāhyam apāsya phalgu haṃsair yathā kṣīram ivāmbudhyāt || 6 || The texts on grammar are long and have a lot of depth, The life of a …
My admin assistant gave birth on Monday, the first of this month. And today she pinged me, since she wanted to complete some work that was pending on her side. I didn’t ask her to obviously. I didn’t even know this was pending. But she took responsibility for the task and wanted to see it …
So more tensions now. Nancy Pelosi, for a brief moment in time, rode in arguably the most tracked plane in history, as she touched down on Taiwan a few minutes ago. And armchair war activists have already begun their calculations. From plane tracking to calculating the military power in the South China Sea, almost everyone …
It’s amusing when you go to a hypermarket in Dubai nowadays. When I was growing up, there was an apple, a banana, an orange, an eggplant…all fruits and vegetables came in one variety so you really had to choose between an apple or a banana which made things much simpler. Today, there are ten odd …
A few months back I had written about the brain drain – where Indian Americans make huge inroads managing the world’s biggest companies, where they could have in theory worked in India as well. In general, this applies to any person of Indian origin – when such a person makes it big, we Indians celebrate …
How much can one learn in a lifetime? More importantly, how much should one learn in a lifetime? Is it worth learning so much when some concepts may never be applied in real life? A few months back, I had written about the knowledge illusion (reproduced below) – where we think we know more than …
Of late, a lot of “Doctors” have been appearing on my LinkedIn timeline. Complete with convocation photos, a detailed thank you note and the “humbleness” of achievement of something that took 20 days to complete. Yes, you read that right. A full 20 days…not of coursework, of waiting. For a doctorate. From start to finish. …
Globalization works…until of course, it doesn’t. The world is now one family, said everyone, until the pandemic hit. And then, in an instant, everyone was on his own. Every country started to negotiate their own way out of the pandemic mess, from vaccines to food…globalization be damned. The rich countries all of a sudden forgot …
Today, as Rohāmrta was saying papapapapa, I recalled the day he started to say da-da-da-da. At that time, I thought he would be reciting rhymes by now, but apparently toddlers take a bit more time to start speaking, so well, typical first-time-dad issues. Nevertheless, I did go back and enjoy this piece that I wrote, …
