Short notes, random thoughts and musings that are less than 2 mins read. A new experiment to see if I can write more regularly :)
Communication skills have become essential across all roles, from startup founders to business leaders. They are key to success. Ten years ago in college, my communication skills were poor. I often found myself at a loss for words in conversations. Do you relate to that? If so, these tips will be helpful for you. The …
How would you design the city of the future? I think it was in the documentary zeitgeist. The proposal for the perfect town plan was to have all the industries and work places right at the centre of the city and then have all the residential complexes radially outwards. That way you’d have people going …
What is a word you feel that too many people use? I have heard so many people using the word “you know” and everytime I want to tell them “I don’t know, and so I’m here to listen to you”. I met people who use “you know” like a punctuation mark between statements. And the …
What brings you peace? Single phrase answer – “I don’t know” I clearly don’t know what brings me peace. If I knew, why would I do other things. There are obviously a few things like listening to music, playing a physical sport, meditation that bring calmness and focus to my mind… But does that equate …
What is the most important thing to carry with you all the time? I have seen a lot of people who are different persons in different places… For instance, a very good boy infront of their parents and a wild person with friends. Most people hide a lot of information at various places and they …
We are all drowned into relationships in one way or the other. As a children to parents, as friends, as partners, as parents and so on. Human life feels impossible and incomplete without having good relationships. So what makes these relationships tick? You know the age old concept of the barter system? You give something …
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 …