Thinking

Musings on mortality and the mundane — Well, this is awkward! I’m not exactly sure what to say here except to just come out with it. As I was getting ready for work the other morning, I performed my routine defecation and found myself inexplicably pondering the impermanence of life. The act of wiping, so routine and…

$2.32 Billion That’s the Sticky Notes and Post-its market size in 2020. What if I told you that the whole thing is literally a gigantic FAILURE? To explain, let me tell you a short story. … In 1968, a young chemist — Dr. …

On the reality of biases: the role they play and why we must watch out for them. — No one likes to admit that they’re biased in some way. In reality, however, every person falls prey to faulty thinking at some point. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing — biases serve a vital function in everyday life. …

In his Pulitzer Prize winning work 'Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid’ (often shortened to G.E.B.), Douglas R. Hofstadter creates a marvelous treatise on human creativity and the interlinking between music, art and mathematical logic. A lot of the meditations in the book occur in the form of dialogue…

I know how much influence music can have on our human perspective so let me start you with something a famed Nobel Prize for Literature winner once said — “The times, they are a changing.” And in the era we are living in today, Bob Dylan’s words have never rang…

Tell me what excites you and I will tell you who you are. People perceive reality in various ways, and everyone has a unique set of beliefs and theories. However, reality is singular and can only be defined with reference to the future. Although multiple potential future scenarios can be…

INTRODUCTION Years ago I came across the acronym PESTLE which stands for Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Legal, and Environmental. This tool is used by executive managers and business owners. I invite you to borrow their proven tool ns consider the acronym PESTLE as a lens to better understand the past…