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    Happy Retirement, Mother!

    After 40+ years of dedicated service to medicine and to teaching medicine, my mother retired from her official working life. She is an inspiration to many, but most of all, she is an inspiration to me.

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    Giving Season: Silent Eloquence Donation Drive

    It’s been a strange year for all of us. Personally, I’ve had a lot of changes in my own life and work. It’s been a year for reflection and trying to figure out what is that really matters. It’s December.…

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    Care: the key to meaning and joy to your life

    Creativity allows you to look at the world in novel ways. It opens your mind to a range of possibilities. Its importance remains imperative, just like curiosity and courage, for a successful life. But success is not sufficient- our lives…

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    Creativity: The true value-add for making a difference

    If courage is the leap of faith that one must take to bring an impact in this world, creativity is its guiding force- it is the skill that sets your distinct direction and vision into bringing this difference. Creating something…

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    Courage: the misunderstood and undervalued trait for good leadership

    Curiosity saves the cat- it brings you out of monotony and into a foray of intellect and imagination. But once you are there, your journey doesn’t end. In fact, your curiosity is merely the start to something great. The next…

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    Curiosity saved the cat: the liberating power of asking simple questions

    Recently, I had the opportunity to address FISAT Business School’s MBA 2020 batch. While preparing for this event I thought long and hard- what I do say to these students who embark onto such an important life phase this day,…

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    Through the looking glass: The nearly impossible task of the perfect perspective

    Our perspective - the way we see the world - shapes our opinions and responses to events. It is a multifaceted and complicated concept that is under constant siege by the forces around us.

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    When a grain becomes a heap: Our responsibility as humans in an age of artificial intelligence

    After many spurts and starts, we are finally, undeniably in the age of artificial intelligence. It is an unprecedented opportunity to design a better future. Every big opportunity comes with a big responsibility.

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    Beyond Labels: Finding coherence by defying definitions and blurring boundaries

    We put labels on things, including ourselves. Most of us end up living our lives within a narrow margin from the definitions of our labels. What does it take to go beyond labels?

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    Intelligent about Intelligence: Organizing my thoughts

    A ten-point storyline where I consolidate my thoughts on Artificial Intelligence, the coming of a new age and what we can do to survive and thrive.

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Quantum inspires images of superposition, entangle Quantum inspires images of superposition, entanglement, spooky action… most of us simply cannot get our heads around it. How could a cat be dead and alive at the same time, we ask? Whether we understand it or not does not make it any less real. What if human beings are quantum beings? E.g. we yearn for coherence. Quantum finds coherence in incoherence. Instead of trying to resolve contradictions, lets embrace them, acquire the ability to absorb contradictions. To craft narratives that are true and false at the same time. To accept personas that are white and black simultaneously. ⁠
Technology, like any other tool, is neutral. Wheth Technology, like any other tool, is neutral. Whether it helps or harms depends on the human. On every single human. So what is it that we need/ can do as individuals, organizations and society? Find out on sandbox (Link in bio)⁠
Here’s a picture of my happy place. May the righ Here’s a picture of my happy place. May the right book find you at the right time, Happy world book day everyone!
“It's a shame that the only thing a man can do f “It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat, drink or make love for eight hours.”– William Faulkner. An examined life (the only kind of life worth living, the wise man says), therefore, cannot exist without examining work. Furthermore, we are going through unprecedented changes at work – what will future of work bring? Will it be called work? How can we be better at work? Should we aspire to be better at work? Or to work at all? So many questions, so much to examine at #TheExaminedWork
There is no coin without two sides – there is no There is no coin without two sides – there is no appreciation of connection without the experience of loneliness. We, as humanity, seem to be struggle to come to terms with isolation in whatever degree we may be experiencing it. The Lonely City by Olivia Liang is an exploration of loneliness, an emotion often acknowledged only shamefully in modern society. In lyrical captivating writing, Laing conducts an electric, dazzling investigation into what it means to be alone, how could we live if we are not intimately engaged with another human being, how do we connect with other people, does technology draw us closer together or trap us behind screens…and many more such timely and relevant questions.
When I think of the future, I imagine a world wher When I think of the future, I imagine a world where every day is a woman's day. Where every day is a man's day. And every day is everyone's day. Where we are all celebrated everyday, for the unique individuals we are, where we are all #beyondlabels⁠ ⁠ Check out my thoughts on gender, #labels and everything beyond them at the link in bio.⁠
You can never step into the same river twice. In t You can never step into the same river twice. In the same way, you can never be the person you used to be. Every moment, every day, we are slightly different from our past self. Most of the time, the change is too small for us to observe with our limited observational skills. “You’ve changed,” is not a criticism, it is a reality. How do we embrace our changing identities, but identify or nurture our “red-thread”? Could we achieve the fluidity to retain and retrieve what we used to be, while increasing our plasticity to change and grow?
Our need for connection may be universal, but the Our need for connection may be universal, but the way we connect is anything but. The Culture Map is categorized as a business book, and it is primarily aimed at decoding how cultural differences impact work across different countries. But it is ultimately about connecting across cultures, in whatever context it is required. Erin Meyer uses eight “scales” (e.g. communicating, trusting, persuading,…), where each scale is a continuum with the two ends, to describe a specific aspect of culture. While this may come across as a recipe for stereotyping, Meyer is clear to point out that it espouses just the opposite – people are ultimately treated as individuals, with her approach as a crutch to understand their cultural contexts better.
Am fascinated by this book. Zombies in real life. Am fascinated by this book. Zombies in real life. Scary but mostly something we deem to be fictional. In this terrifying book, Matt Simon demonstrates with the precision of a science writer the biological underpinnings of this surprisingly wide spread phenomenon.⁠ ⁠ I am in chapter 1, but getting pulled in to read the rest of this book - is it through free will that I choose to read the rest, or through the mind-bending power of carefully crafted words?
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