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The Unpredictable Ripple of New Technology
In a book I was reading, Cal Newport shared this interesting story: When IBM first set up an email system for their employees, they had to figure out the server capacity sufficient to handle the email volume. So they looked at all the communication...
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Meditation is a long road
Meditation is not an ATM, where you swipe your card (i.e., spend 20 min) and expect 'blissful calm' to come out gushing. This is one reason so many...
Whatsapp & Slack addiction
In a 2014 study, Timothy Wilson of the University of Virginia left students in a room for 15 odd minutes with nothing to do (phones were taken...
Would you swap your life?
"Would you swap your life with that of an 80-year-old billionaire?" Almost any sensible youngster will respond to this question with an emphatic...
Tolerance for sloppiness
After graduation, one of my IIT buddies, a mechanical engineer, took up a job at a large auto manufacturer in India. Once he joined the...
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The trail of envy
I live in a private residential complex owned by a group of IAS/IPS officers in Kerala. And when these IAS officers retire, often as the Chief Secretary (the highest rank in the state government), almost all of them take some post-retirement gig...
Addiction
Addiction is the inability to control our urge for something that we know is harmful and leaves us dissatisfied. The more we use it, the more desensitized we become and need higher doses to get the same high. All smartphone users - does it ring a...
Life is full of beauty
The most enjoyable course I took during my MBA at Wharton was taught not by a professor, but by a librarian. In the final semester of the MBA, no more under any pressure, I took a course outside the business school with the University of...
We discover the value of anything when we lose it
The glass is not half empty. Nor is it half full. The glass is 95% full -- just that we don't look around hard enough. When we move into a new house or buy a new car, in probably two weeks' time, we start taking it for granted. We discover the...