Curse of intelligence 

Intelligent people find it hard to say no, when asked for a solution to a problem  Intelligent people think that if something takes “just a little time” it should be done right away  Intelligent people think handling urgency is helpful ...

Stuck in a jam

My road to office is a pretty smooth one. Takes me around 35 mins to reach and it’s a fairly uninterrupted ride. Occasionally, we get stuck. Maybe a truck broke down, or someone hit someone else. At that point, when we are in a jam, it doesn’t matter...

I am colorblind

I have red-green color blindness. Which means, when you see the image below you see a number. And I don’t see anything  No pattern at all. Just dots     But hey, that’s the world I was born in. It’s my world.  And it’s...

Boundaries

Mathematicians and physicists are trained to always identify the boundaries and operating constraints, while solving a problem.  And yet, the best ones perhaps didn’t pay any heed to those boundaries.  They started from first principles.  The...

Probability 

You toss a coin. There is a 50% chance it will land as tails. But it doesn’t. Heads it is.  You toss again. Heads again And heads again And heads again And heads again With 5 heads in a row, when you toss the coin the 6th time, guess what’s the...