From Achievement to Fulfilment and That Little Bit in Between

The one thing that no-one tells you

What is The Shitty First Draft

The Shitty First Draft is a two-month experiment among friends which gives permission to write freely: free from edits, free from an audience, free from our own internal editor. What becomes of these Shitty First Drafts is up to each of us after the experiment is over.

The Power of Question Thinking and Positive Mental Health

An open view on an invisible subject

Five Future of Work Trends From SXSW

A view on SXSW in Austin — it’s where the magic happens

Whatever the X, help them discover the Y

This story could have stayed buried in my e-mails but a message received yesterday from The Economist with the title “Whatever the X, help them discover the Y” reminded me my story of gifting a magazine subscription to a dear friend. It took me 37 days to…

Innovation in the World of Humanitarian Aid

How one small start up is using technology to serve humanity

To Learn, Un-learn and Re-learn

Connecting Learning and Creativity

The Need for Learning Agility

The Starting Point Counts

Of late, I have been juggling a few ideas about: mostly informed by a book I am reading — Creativity, by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi — a study of mental models meticulously curated by Shane Parrish of Farnam Street, and about Fractals in context of Complexity Theory. I am further helped…

Where are the scientists

This week I’ve spent a few days on a course with twenty other PhD researchers from various disciplines. Every time when I have such an opportunity I am impressed and touched to learn how such young people work on hard, and often life and death questions. Apart from my natural…