Category: Life Philosophy
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Interesting conversations enhance knowledge
Conversations with people, if done appropriately, can be knowledge enhancing endeavours, even if the topic is something you know a lot about. Knowledge resides in our brains in a tacit form, and only a certain part of it becomes explicit when we are exercising the use of the same. Many people wonder how we can…
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Ring the bells that still can ring
Leonard Cohen crooned, rather perfectly:Ring the bells that still can ringForget your perfect offeringThere is a crack, a crack in everythingThat’s how the light gets in These are the kinds of lines that set you free. Free from the compulsion of producing something perfect. Free from the obligation of creating something that can not be…
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Wittgenstein’s Duck-rabbit Metaphor
Wittgenstein’s duck-rabbit metaphor highlights the challenges of understanding the ambiguities in the environment. Besides being a philosophical problem dealing with change and cognition, it is a practical tool to understand the multiple aspects of reality. In real-life business situations, we encounter duck-rabbits every day that turn into sheep or lions weeks later. It is important…
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National Startup Day
The honorable Prime Minister has declared the 16th of January as National Startup Day. This is a fascinating development and a piece of excellent news for the Indian startup ecosystem. As a humble contribution from my side, I plan to give the kindle copy of my book, “Reclaim Your Inner Entrepreneur,” free today and tomorrow.…
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Are you the drunk searching under the streetlight?
Are you the drunk searching under the streetlight? The streetlight effect is a type of observational bias. It comes from the often-quoted story about the drunk and the streetlight and appears first in Mulla Nasruddin tales. It goes like this: A policeman sees a drunk man searching for something under a streetlight and asks what…
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Neighbourhood Creativity
Kevin Kelly’s article I linked to yesterday made one point which I have been thinking about and telling everyone I meet. The fact that you reading this, a weblog created by a non-entity, non-celebrity, makes that point too. And since you are reading it, you quietly believe in it too. The take-away in bold then…
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Book Review – The Heart of The Matter – Graham Greene
“The Heart of the Matter” by Graham Greene is the story of Henry Scobie, a major in the colony of Africa. Racism is rampant; slavery is common and religious drive is taken seriously. Scobie is a pious man, not outwardly – he refuses to attend mass with his wife – but from inside. He takes…
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Can Flow be a worthwhile goal?
People all over the world report being frustrated with their job. In a report about the office workers in the UK, 97% of people reported frustration with work. When you ask people why they continue to work in the job that causes them to be frustrated, the most common reason is money and security. In…
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The Vast Sea of Ignorance
When one feels overwhelmed and demotivated by looking at someone else’s knowledge or skills, it is a great strategy to put things in a perspective. This strategy is based on reality of individual limitations and capabilities. The sphere of knowledge in the world is vast. One may say infinite, but that may not be true.…
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Book Review – Your Money or Your Life
“Your Money or Your Life” has such a simple message, that you may end up thinking, “Why didn’t I think of this before?”, yet, behind that simplicity is a profound truth about the role of money in our life. Most of us take the value of money for granted, with that also the message, the…