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, …
I got a lovely message today. They may have felt my pain, my suffering…my hard work and that I didn’t any rest from so many days… They asked me if I was tired or fatigued…whether I felt low…just out of the blue they messaged me. Oh how wonderful, that someone cares… And then I read …
Sleep tracking. Yes, been reading a lot about it lately. My sleep patterns have been disturbed, mostly due to a disruption of my exercise schedule. So while I struggle to get that back, I have been trying to measure my sleep patterns to know more about the subject. Today’s wearable tech still has a long …
The 1972 book Limits to Growth, which predicted our civilisation would probably collapse some time this century, has been criticised as doomsday fantasy since it was published. Now, someone decided to check the model anyway and see if it actually made sense, 40 years on. Turns out, we are pretty much following the model to …
