Author: alokkav
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Don’t wait for the pain
I feel nature has assigned a disproportionate intensity of pain to teeth-related issues. Your heart, for instance, is so supercritical and yet so obedient (true stoic), it only raises a red flag when it nears a life-and-death equation. People die of heart attacks. It is sudden. But you can still live with all your teeth gone! Yet,…
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The crime of omission : office politics
Here is why office politics is so tricky to deal with. 90% of office politics is based on things people don’t say and things people don’t do. If you use a legal analogy, it is tantamount to the crime of “omission”. Crime of omission is something you haven’t done! failure to do a legal duty…
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ChatGPT vs Jobs
Let us begin with a story. An American investor on his tour in China in the 1960s visited a worksite where a new canal was being built. He was shocked to see that, instead of modern tractors and earth movers, the workers had shovels. He asked why there were so few machines. The government bureaucrat…
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Selling a product that is in the making
As a trend, creating visibility in a career or at a workplace is often prioritized before developing competence. It is like aggressive marketing even before developing a good product. Why limit ourselves to work space boundaries? Look at Instagram brands that have solid performance marketing in place. Thousands of followers if not millions, solid branding…
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Career Gaps in the Movie Industry
In his 22-year Bollywood career, Randeep Hooda has only worked for 11 years. This means, 50% of the time, he wasn’t involved at all in his acting pursuits. What did he do then? He spent time pursuing his hobbies; horse riding, traveling, and camping. This approach is quite common in Bollywood. Randeep’s journey is a…
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The rise and rise of finance influencers
Financial advice is like health advice. It is hardly brought into action by people who consume it. A big part of saving and investing money is attached to our personality and how we perceive our environment. Discretionary expenditures are linked to how one perceives oneself. If a 1.5 lac rupee phone makes you feel valued…
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Why do some creators win and others don’t?
As the credits for Avatar part two rolled, I could read James Cameron holding various titles; the director, the writer, the editor, the screenplay, the producer, and so on. If you try to read between the lines, he is a person who dreams, invests in his dream, plans, and executes his dream. This man is…
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Objective lens to understand mental health
People usually struggle at three levels when they try to manage their mental health. I learned about this in Jonah Hill’s mental health documentary on Netflix. One of the tools that I could really appreciate and relate to was called the three levels of life force. The three levels are like a pyramid. The first…
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The trap of being the listener
A couple of years back, during the peak of Covid, I got a call from a college friend. He hadn’t called me in years. The initial 2 minutes were spent checking on how we are keeping safe and when the pandemic is going to end after all. For the next 30 minutes or so, there…
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Moonlighting, an eventuality?
On a lighter note, moonlighting simply showcases the access capacity of a knowledge worker. I just googled “Moonlighting” and I got the following: Moonlighter is “one who takes a second job after hours” (1954), from the notion of working by the light of the moon. Moonlighting in which case is more of a side gig done…
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