What is Deep Work? Have you heard of Cal Newport? According to Cal Newport, “Deep work is my term for the activity of focusing without distraction on a cognitively demanding task. It describes, in other words, when you’re really locked into doing something hard with your mind. ” … More What is deep work?
Do you read a newspaper? Or like many others, have you moved online to get your share of news? … More Do you read a newspaper?
It’s not the writer’s block this side. I have umpteen things to write about but I think I am suffering from something I would like to call a time-block. The day-light savings have ended and now my work calls are pushed out by an hour. The traffic is worse due to white-topping of the roads. … More It’s a time-block
Robin Dunbar, an anthropologist and evolutionary psychologist coined the Dunbar number. The Dunbar Number is the cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships. Also known as the rule of 150, 150 is that limit or Dunbar Number. With a multitude of social media networks and connections, think … More Dunbar Number
When the time comes, All dreams fall flat. The hospital messes up. The family thinks nothing is wrong. You think nothing will happen to you. Advice of colleagues makes no difference. Those who can help are unaware of the situation. Those who don’t know you come forward to help. You are not around to see … More When the time comes
When VT shared the below tweet with me, I wasn’t surprised. Indians have taken social media by storm. For good or for bad, there is no stopping of sharing the forwards, tagging children or writing contact numbers on the wall. If you are not an Indian, it’s okay. I understand your confusion. I have had … More Facebook users in 2018
When I don’t write, I feel I am not doing what makes me happy. I sulk and I feel upset about not being able to follow my heart. When I don’t write, I write in my head. I form the words and the sentences as I think and then I write. All that in the … More When I don’t write
There are a few questions that I am frequently asked. When do you blog? Do you have a specific time to write? What topics do you write about? I won’t get into why I blog. You all know that but let me tell you a few things I strongly believe in. If you like doing … More How do you get the time to blog?
Over a decade ago, when I was working with an Indian IT Services organization, the company prohibited use of social media (read Orkut) and external emails on the office computers. The company also tracked the use of access card to get data for attendance of the employees. The result? My peers used a variety of proxies … More Trust over control
This weekend we watched Eye in the Sky, a 2015 British thriller that shares the dilemma of what’s right and what’s not in a war. What this movie beautifully brought out is the Trolley problem. For those, who haven’t heard of the trolley problem, consider the below situation. There is a trolley running down a track. On … More The trolley problem : Eye in the Sky
happiness and food 