Ramblings

Medium Monetization

I am not a person that returns purpose-bought things from Walmart. I am not a person that goes for “free” at any cost. I still find the changes in Medium specifically with respect to monetization weird.

What is your role in your life?

“It’s my life” you scream. I get that — but how many of us show that in action? Too many times we blame a bad boss, bad timing, bad luck, bad horoscope, bad destiny, bad friends, bad parents, bad school, bad raising, bad fate, bad coincidence, bad teachers, bad choices etc…

Concert etiquette

Concert etiquette has always been sort of a contentious topic. Even in Western classical music, there are several variations of what is acceptable and what is not. I would like to explore what is acceptable for performed music in the context of India.

Over-confident people achieve more

Ever since I started my career working as a network technician, I have been an introspective personality. What I mean by that is, I take time to understand something, commit to something — whether it is a small task or a big deliverable. By some definitions, most…

Which view?

You can take a transactional view or a statistical view. Statistical view is of the past. Transactional view is of present. Statistical view focuses on trends. Transactional view focuses on — you guessed it — a transaction. Statistical view is general and transactional view is personal. Transactional view…

Be judged

In the Western world and much of the rest of the world, there is an implicit need of individualism that wants them not to be judged. For the smallest action or word towards someone, it is not uncommon to hear the words, “Don’t judge me”

Moment of truth

They say character is what we do when no one’s looking. But if you have to measure the character of someone from India, just observe his actions in a flight. With a cabin full of people as witness, the things these people do are a moment of truth, ugliness and the profound scarcity we grew up with.

Mind is a monkey

Our minds work in a funny way. When we say we like people or when we judge people, in 90% of situations with 90% of people*, all we do is super-impose our own image upon them and pick the attribute that resembles us. For, to the mind, “I” is the frame of reference for all things.

What’s your secret sauce?

To be of any relevance to other people, especially in business, you have to have a secret sauce. You may say it is your skill, your flair, your attitude, your perseverance, your sociability, your networked-ness, your professionalism or any combination of these and other factors. But…