Category: Life
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The death of a bread toaster: A life lesson
We love toasted breads and we need around 16 toasts (8 each) two days a week. Tuesdays and Saturdays to be precise. I love toasts with omelettes. Sometimes peanut butter but mostly omelettes. Our beloved toaster gave up on us last Tuesday. All these years we operated it on the cancel button to pop the…
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Personality Vs Behaviour (Don’t hate someone for their personality)
There is always that one person at your workplace who just gets on your nerves. Sometimes that person might not even be part of your team. She could be part of a different team altogether. But when you see her or hear her speaking, you just can’t accept her. You get annoyed and start hating…
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Where to begin your career? Start with a tool
Just after I graduated, I got a call for interview from Funskool, a toy manufacturer. I went for the interview and the interviewer asked me, do you know AutoCAD? I said I do know the basics but I can learn. This was a textbook interview answer. I was not very confident around it, the interviewer…
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Project vs Operations
Project is something that we start from zero. Something that we build or create. A bridge could be a project. The road could be a project. Simply going to the mountains for a trek could be a project. Writing a book is a project. Project is something that you might just do once. Then how…
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The value of a 4 day week
I started my career with manufacturing and process engineering. The companies I worked for gave me Sunday to relax, enjoy and rejuvenate. A Sunday wasn’t enough. A half-day on Saturday is what used to long for. That was a decade back. Now I have switched jobs and work in an industry where 5 day work…
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Mental peace is more of a Shift+Delete game
Take a deep breath, and reflect what is occupying your mind now. This is not a meditation exercise, it is my attempt to make you understand need to resolve your mind. For me, personally, my mind is peaceful when I don’t wish to resolve anything. I feel the discomfort when I have something unresolved running…
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The root of Stress and Anxiety
We often perceive stress and anxiety as abstract and relate it to personal experiences. Here is my attempt to simplify these two. Thank me later 🙂 Anxiety comes for uncertainty and unclarity, you are not sure about the outcome. Stress comes when you try to achieve the unclear outcome in an inefficient manner. Work related…
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The value of being in the “Present”
Driving is full of micro decisions. If you don’t have an automatic car, it demands all your senses to co-ordinate in tandem. Spice this up with traffic signals, careless pedestrians, and cars that are just inches away. The micro decisions are stress inducing, even if you take the same route everyday. One day, I was…
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Indecisiveness, Stress, Recovery
When I was a runner in the making, I could manage a couple of kilometres before my calf muscles gave-up. My legs went through a structural stress because of the weight of my body and the shocks from the road. This stress was painful. Some suggested to dip my legs in cold water, few others…
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Do you celebrate outcomes or processes?
A few days back there was a meme that went viral. It goes like this: Who we are? Indians What do we want? Medals What do we want our child to be? Engineers or Doctors We need glorious outcomes but we are not ready to pursue the appropriate means to achieve those outcomes. Moreover, we…
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