What can change humans? Love and Fear. The latter is supposed to be more powerful. After all, we are all afraid of Death. Right? We as a collective society are decaying by the day. The kind of politics, the state of education, the nonsense of journalism and all of this stemming from the “I don’t …
Just yesterday a friend told me “I want to do this after retirement”. That statement hit me so hard in the context of what we are all going through right now. Is there a retirement? Retirement as such is the time when you decide to stop active work and just relax. Historically, this happened at …
In the last short, I wrote about asking and how asking itself can make a lot of things happen. This one is an extrapolation of that thought. As a kid, I did a lot of crazy things. Things that I can’t imagine myself doing right now. It could be that impromptu speech in the school …
Scene 1 I was talking to my colleague who delivers a lot of internal trainings and loves doing these. I asked her a lot of people deliver trainings in this company and what differentiates you from others? She did not have a specific answer. I told her to send out mandatory feedback forms after each …
Knowing how to complete a task or getting a degree that proves you know how to do a task? What exactly is education? If the first definition is education for you, why are we all in this rat race of formal education? Why are kids having to go through years of formal education most of …
Context: If you are reading this, it means that you have an internet connection. Which in itself is a privilege! According to the surveys, only a small percentage of population today have access to decent internet and you are one of them. We are privileged to have what we have today and there are millions …
I work in a support services organization at Cisco, Bangalore. Working from home is not something we are used to. There a number of complications that would arise if we work from home. At least that is what we all thought until COVID19 (Corona) happened. I am working from home since the 13th of March …
We all know how big the Corona Virus has become. And in India, we are at a very critical juncture and are fighting against the Virus spread. We have seen in other countries that after few hundreds of infections, the Virus spread increases exponentially. Hence India needs to maintain all the vigilance it can and …
Cisco has launched the DevNet certifications on the 24th of February and also launched a program to recognise the first 500 people who certify on this track with a “DevNet500” lifetime tag. I have been fortunate enough to have cleared the exam in time and also join this club. And since that day, I have …
There is something about Cisco that I cannot express. Everyone at work and my friends know how much I love this company. A lot of people ask reasons for this “love and pride” I have for Cisco. I started thinking about this and all I had to do was list down everything that I did …