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Oct 16, 20215 min read
Everything Teaches Something
Pay attention and you will train your mind to learn something from everything. We have been programmed to look at the brighter side of...
Oct 5, 20214 min read
Planet Earth at Climate Change Crossroads
Climate change is a long-term change in the average weather patterns that have come to define Earth’s local, regional and global...
Sep 28, 20214 min read
Chip Happens
Microchips are all around us. They are now being used in cars, washing machines and refrigerators, apart from their more widely known...
Sep 24, 20213 min read
Facebook Doesn’t Care About You!
The most important metric at Facebook is user engagement. This single-minded pursuit is the hallmark of toxic capitalism. Facebook, also...
Sep 21, 20213 min read
Solve for ‘X’ and Mental Judo
Too often you have been given answers to remember, rather than problems to solve. The size of your problems is nothing compared with your...
Aug 7, 20214 min read
Grow Through What You Go Through
Purposeful Pursuits Success is the product of skill, hard-work, perseverance, and good fortune. It is not easy to allocate percentages to...
Jul 31, 20214 min read
Every Well-reasoned ‘No’ Creates Room for a Strategic ‘Yes’
Throughout the day we get requests from colleagues and associates to join a project. It is not easy to say no, but sometimes asking to be...
Jul 17, 20214 min read
World Population: The Signal and the Noise
Just like any other news item, the buzz around population explosion or falling birth rate has split the world in half. Which version do...
Jul 15, 20214 min read
Smoking is the Worst Form of Self-Harm and Suffocating for Those Around You.
Cigarette smoking is not just a bad habit; it’s a serious and complicated addiction. Trying to quit it is one of the biggest challenges a...
Jul 8, 20214 min read
Creativity: Problem, Process and Prosperity
The Collins Dictionary defines creativity as the ability to transcend traditional ideas, rules, patterns and relationships, to create...
Jun 19, 20215 min read
What the ‘F’ of Advertising
Consumerism is the most widely followed ‘ism’ in modern times. The dictionary meaning of the word, ‘ism’, used primarily as a suffix, is:...
Jun 5, 20214 min read
Individual and Institutional Integrity
Integrity is the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles, irrespective of the situation. Strong and stable...
May 29, 20213 min read
Multi-tasking and Multiple Skills: A Critique
Even people who are considered heavy multitaskers are not actually very good at multitasking. In one study, Stanford University...
May 27, 20214 min read
FB and Instagram Users Will Now Have the Option to Hide ‘Like’ Counts
Having choices is empowering and liberating. Social media is part and parcel of modern life. Each individual uses it for reasons best...
May 22, 20215 min read
Hyper-polite Obituaries, but Bitter Otherwise
Death is inevitable. As human beings we have a finite life, and how the curtain falls is uncertain. Decent people never speak ill of the...
May 20, 20214 min read
Net Zero by 2050: Realistic Target or Wishful Thinking?
The International Energy Agency (IEA) released a special report on May 18 titled, ‘Net Zero by 2050: A Roadmap for the Global Energy...
May 15, 20214 min read
Acknowledge Vulnerability, Pursue Prosperity
Anxiety and anger are proportional; they are also complementary. Anger is an adaptive response to threat. It infuses bravery and...
May 4, 20213 min read
Mind Over Matter
There are a lot of things happening around us, and most of them are not in our control. Negative news is abundant and it is relentlessly...
Apr 29, 20214 min read
Fooled by Food
Packaged food has become a permanent feature of contemporary life. Everything from cookies, chips, instant noodles, juices and aerated...
Apr 27, 20213 min read
Sleep: More or Less
Getting the right amount of sleep is an underrated subject in modern life. There were enough issues for people to tackle prior to the...
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