The Difference Between Professionals and Amateurs

I’ve started to notice (partially because of my own failures), that there is one skill that is so valuable that it will make you a standout in any area of life, no matter what kind of competition you face.

Five things you should definitely do in an Engineering College!

Five things you should definitely do while doing engineering (or anything as a matter of fact except maybe medicine):
Competitive Programming, this is a must, if you are still stuck on the Turbo C++ compiler (Indian…

Mindful Agility 

Balancing Habit and Consciousness

The Bottomless Glass of Evgeny Morozov

Eastern Europeans have a natural (or, as we will argue, historically necessitated) proclivity to be negative and I fit that stereotype pretty well. I am not a glass-half-full person. “Tell me what you are doing, and I will tell you what is wrong with it” is a…

What if there were a better way to pay for news?

Smash That

Went to the new Smash Burger this evening. Girl at counter greeted me with, “Oh good! You’re here. Did you bring the tape to fix the AC?”

Hmmm

First post.

Why I Argue

The importance of speaking up, getting involved and not being afraid of a fight

Over the past couple of years, I’ve found myself in several lengthy and heated discussions with friends and friends of friends, mostly occurring on…

Be curious and learn new things

Like seasons, my interest in things changes every now and then. One month I’ll be obsessed with…

Whatchamacallit

Does naming always matter? Is naming any good for identification? Is anything, any effort on identifying something ever successful? Has any identified thing not exceeded expectations? Do we have to expect something from a thing according to its identification or can we just wish anything from…

The General Specific

What the Misinterpretation of Evergreen Hath Wrought

Wasted Talent

Arranging deck chairs on the Mars rover.