Whose truth do you value?

A stranger writes in to you “Hey, i just read your blog. I don’t agree with it. You came across as full of yourself!” For most people their first reaction in their head will be “fuck off. He doesn’t even know me to say what he said....

Predict your day?

You get up in the morning  You have the check boxes ready – your schedule, your tasks, people, email, coffee.  Or you don’t – it’s a day you will figure as you go along, but then that too is part of the plan. No plan is your...

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...