Good Read: Core Principles By Viktor E Frankl
The Bet By Anton Chekhov
I know it is late, but still not too late. I am planning to write the Lockdown diary. I don't know about others, but I am very comfortable with this lockdown. I can even say that I am enjoying this phase! I have some thoughts on why I am enjoying the lockdown or why it... Continue Reading →
Magic of Powerpoint
NY Times July 30, 1987: Microsoft buys Forethought, maker of PowerPoint, for $14M in cash Today: PowerPoint has 500M usersMicrosoft Office is $30B+ revenue per year$14M of Microsoft stock from July 1987 would be worth ~$10B today This is a good example of the "moat" Warren Buffett always talks about. In a way Bill Gates... Continue Reading →
10 Laws of Dharma
Here are the 10 laws of Dharma (धर्म), see which ones you are following: Patience (dhriti / धृती) – Staying secure in your own inner peace.Forgiveness (kshama / क्षमा) – Letting go of things that don’t necessarily serve you.Piety or self-control (dama / दम) – Knowing that the best things come to those that wait... Continue Reading →
Letting Go…
It's a very tough decision and I'm not sure if every person has to face it at least once in his life. The decision of letting go... I had bought a Kindle eBook reader in 2012. Really liked it and accumulated a lot of books on it. Sometime in 2016 it started causing issues. The... Continue Reading →
Kintsugi: The Art of Precious Scars
Kintsugi (金継ぎ, "golden joinery"), also known as Kintsukuroi (金繕い, "golden repair"), is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum, a method similar to the maki-e technique. As a philosophy, it treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object, rather than something to disguise. Source: Wikipedia Very interesting concept. Instead of hiding... Continue Reading →
And People Stayed Home…
A poem by Kathleen O’Meara (1839–1888).
My Blog Featured In IIM-A Alumni Magazine
I had written a blog on lessons in Marketing via cooking sometime in October 2018. I had sent the same to our alumni web magazine/newsletter and had forgotten about it. I recently got to know from a feedback from my IIM-A classmate that the article was actually published in the IIM-A newsletter called WIMWIAN in... Continue Reading →
Ames Window and Feynman’s First Principle
I came across an interesting optical illusion called Ames Window. Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KrpZMNEDOY This shows how the optical illusion fools our brain even though we know that the reality is different. This is a very good example to keep in mind, because our brains are really susceptible to make such mistakes, and this is... Continue Reading →
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