17th September 2021
Thought of The Day
Thought of The Day
16th September 2021 “Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.” — Dale Carnegie
Chess Puzzle
Black has an active queen, but White hopes to take advantage of the weakened back rank and somehow turn the tables! 🙂 It's WHITE TO PLAY. Can he win? 1.Rb2, 1.Rd2, and 1.Re2 are the candidate first moves. But which of them is the best? And why? — Dawid Przepiórka, 1920
Thought of The Day
15th September 2021 "Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel." – Socrates
Chess Puzzle
WHITE TO MOVE AND MATE IN 2 Is this really a mate in 2, with the white king so severely exposed on b4? Well, well, well… there are more things in the kingdom of Caïssa, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy! 🙂 — Godfrey F. Heathcote (Revue d'Échecs 1904, 1st Prize)
Thought of The Day
14th September 2021 "A fit body, a calm mind, a house full of love. These things cannot be bought - they must be earned."
A World Of Languages
5 Indian languages feature in the world's most popular languages (including my mother tongue, Marathi). Interestingly Punjabi is not there even though a large number of people speak Punjabi.
Thought of The Day
13th September 2021 "You are as good as how nice you are to people you don't have to be nice to." — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Thought of The Day
12th September 2021 "The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for." — Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Constraints-Based Thinking, Strategy As An Art And Chess Puzzle
Recently I attended a leadership meeting where I had a brief discussion with Business Unit Head about the Strategy of our company not to diversify and focus on only one specific Industry vertical i.e. Banking and Financial Services (BFS). This was about Data and Analytics capabilities. I made a point with an analogy which was... Continue Reading →
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