rAnDom PoSts bY a rANdoM ThInKeR

This is the story of a girl who can best be described as a dove. She was gentle yet mannered, pleasant yet hard-working, and full of love, which gave her a fair glow that only improved with age. The story starts early when she was pampered by her brothers and a sister for being a cute little girl in one of the richest households in a small town. This is where she learned what unconditional love really means and then used her whole life to spread it.  One way she would do that is through food. You felt her warmth through her food. Be it unique recipes like mango bhajiya or amrud chutney or though her tireless insistence on ensuring nobody in the house skips so much as a snack. When she was sixteen, she was married off to a polar opposite personality: a tall wheatish handsome rationalist. He was everything she wasn't 'an emotional bubbly fit-in-anywhere'. And thus they completed each other perfectly. It surprises me even today how they never even saw e

There are days, and no one is spared from those, where everything just seems off track. On some of these days, you are dizzy and overwhelmed by the list of things to do. On others, you are so lost that you don't even know what to put on the list. Existential questions like "Where am I headed?" and "What if I am not good enough?" start making a way into your head, until some youtube video or an Instagram notification comes to the rescue. This post is an epiphany that I had on one such day. A batsman (choose your favorite) comes on the field with the pressure of scoring tons of runs, in limited deliveries, while maintaining his wicket. The first few deliveries he faces are short and inviting. He succumbs to the pull and goes after them, yet misses them all. Time to enter the thoughts in Dravid's mind... "What am I doing missing these easy balls?", "Everything is going wrong, I could've lost my wicket on any of those, haven't scored a run

Someday I want to give this analogy in some talk somewhere Many people enjoy music but believe that they are tone deaf. I believe that music is at least as intuitive as speaking. Say if I tell you the following. I have the following agenda for today 1. Talk about music. 2 . Make a case that everyone has music   and I stop there. I say the word music with exactly the same pitch in both the points. And then ask people do you think there is going to be a third point ?  Just by keeping the note in which I say the last work people know of this is the end or there is more to come. Interestingly the end note is the same note that you started speaking in. People know that the journey is over only at the home note. This is very intuitive. Another thing which music has naturally is triads so people will always have a tendency to have 3 points. It feels unnatural to stop at 2 points. And then I will go on to show the video by mcferrel about how pentatonic scale is natural to all human beings a

You earn and save . You save and you invest. The more money you have the safer you feel about the future. Net worth of a person or a company or a country can be seen in various ways. One of the most common assumptions of capitalism is that net worth of a person is equal to the value he/ she has contributed to the society. whether it is true or false or where it is true and where it is false is a different debate. This post is about a second interpretation. Your current net worth is like a buffer or inventory you keep because of the uncertainty of the future demand of money in your life or that of your family. money is a store of value which you can exchange later. Now imagine a factory which keeps a lot of inventory in between its processes. would you call it an efficient factory. of course it is less susciptible to overall breakdown because every machine in the work line has enough inventory in betwwen them so that even if one part breaks down others continue to work on thei

  While looking at various wikipedia articles day in and day out, I figured it is really difficult to grasp a concept if i start reading from line one. I always scroll through for some examples down there of the concept and then look for the generalisation at the top. similar approach should be followed in teaching. The idea of a school is not to thrust knowledge but to create an environment where students seek learning. Its like recreating the atmosphere again to recreate the eureka moment for the students. So start with a simple example then ask why questions to reach the generalization. because that is how learning happens.

Recently a lot of events that I am thinking about have boiled down to one important lesson for life. On accountability. __ "Tu idhar udhar ki na baat kar ye bata ki kafila kyun luta humein reh zanon se gila nahi teri rehbari ka sawaal hai" __ a huge laid out project at work is flailing and there is no one who is accountable because everyone was true to its incentives and no one had the accountability. __ nitpicking and complaining about what other has done is easy. advising is easy but what is difficult is to hold the pressure of accountability and responsibility on your head and do the deed, accomplish the task. So if you want to get the work done your way you also have to face the stress of accountability or your advise may or maynot be heeded. __ self taken accountability is better than given because when taken it is generally taken with a knowledge that one could do it better than it is done right now. __