Few weeks ago I wrote about Spanish erotic thriller web-series on Netflix called Dark Desire. The web series is an average one-time watch (Rating: 6.5/10). But I really liked the female lead Maite Perroni and hence when the Season 2 came up recently, I decided to watch. I just finished watching the Season 2 and... Continue Reading →
Rejuvenated and Inspired
I am back from a short 3-4 days of vacation. It was a much needed break to rejuvenate myself and get inspired and recharged for the rest of the year. In fact it has been a great 1 week since Valentine's Day to unwind, chuck away the routine schedule and spend some quality time with... Continue Reading →
The First Book of 2022 – Whole Numbers and Half Truths
In last few years I have become softer. In the sense that I have adapted my logical and analytical side to accommodate the side which deals with feelings, emotions, empathy etc. I may not have become kinder but I am less acerbic, less caustic and (I hope) less toxic. Interestingly, I have always been blessed... Continue Reading →
My Career Tips
Recently I was asked by my Corporate Communications and Branding team to write a post on Career Tips. The post was part of the weekly Leadership Connect series on LinkedIn and followed a specific template. It was published on LinkedIn on last Friday and I just got the analytics for the same for the first... Continue Reading →
Wordle And Structured Curiosity
If you are on any social media, in particular Twitter, you would have a lot of messages about the new craze/fad called Wordle. It's a word game created by a software engineer for his partner. Interestingly, the name of the person is John Wardle - so Wordle is (also) a wordplay on his name. I... Continue Reading →
Atomic Habits In Practice
Since 1st January 2021 I started doing some basic and short exercises at home for about 10 minutes. One of them includes Planking which I do for about 2-3 minutes. In the whole 2021 I have not missed it even for a day, no matter if I am at home or travelling or in usual... Continue Reading →
Zero Based Thinking in 2022
As part of my MBA I studied Zero Based Budgeting (ZBB) in Cost and Management Accounting course. I liked the concept a lot! In simple words the ZBB idea is as follows: Our budgeting exercise is usually incremental in nature. We take this year's budget as a baseline and think about incremental budget required for... Continue Reading →
Books, Chess and Movies
I have been upbeat since last few weeks after I hit the lowest point in Sep 2021 in terms of mental piece. I have been traveling a lot and for the first time in my life I read a complete book during flights! Yesterday I finished the 387 page murder mystery novel and thoroughly enjoyed... Continue Reading →
Blogging Milestone – 100K Views
I just got an alert that this blog has achieved today 100K views and 70K unique visitors! It's been many years since I started this blog; maybe 8 years or so. I had another blog before this one which I had started in 2006-07. So overall it's been 15 years. 100K views in 8 years... Continue Reading →
Reading With Purpose
I read Atomic Habits by James Clear in 2020 and was highly impressed by it! I have been reading his blogs even before that. I decided to act upon book's core theme of "Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results" and chose to apply it to one of my passions - reading. I decided that in 2021 I'll... Continue Reading →
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