“Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.” — John F. Kennedy. On the annual day of Bhavans Al Ain UAE, I spoke to the students, teachers, leaders, parents, and even …
How team-based learning helps you thrive.
Schools and colleges in the world give you scoring based on what you do alone. Essays, exams, quizzes, and internships you do. All this is what we call a single-player game. But life, work, and …
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My 25th podcast
I started podcasting with an app called Anchor last year. Mostly to have meaningful conversations with experts and leaders on things that shaped their lives. Here is my 25th podcast on how team-based …
The eye surgeon of British Malabar, in the 1930s.
Can you see things better? Hmm, a little blurred, but better. Can you open your eyes fully? Yes, I will, I'm trying, it's hard. Try slowly, you can see things better. ok, ok, I can feel …
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100-day promise to myself.
The word Crisis in Chinese means Opportunity in Danger. A few days into the lockdown, I realized one thing. This is the time to accelerate. To learn more. To share more. And to connect with people …
Trolls Vs Analysis
Trolls are like pigs. They love fighting in the mud. Analysts are experts who go through the boring process of analyzing data and understanding the context to get a holistic view of things. We love …
Tracing ancestry from saliva
During occasional visits to my ancestral village, I used to think, how family roots are more biological than emotional. 'Blood is thicker than water' may sound like a cliche but the genetic …
Design thinking is all about users, not about designers.
“We must design for the way people behave, not for how we would wish them to behave.”― Donald A. Norman, Living with Complexity Coming up with an idea is now easy. You get inspired by …
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19 things which 2019 taught me shared through tweets
It has been a great year on Twitter, sharing my thoughts. The Twitter analytics says, more than 1 million people saw the tweets and 175K people engaged with it. Here are my best tweets curated for …
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Cobweb of bureaucracy
"Self-interests above all common interests." Many large organizations are woven in the cobweb of bureaucracy. It takes a disruptor to wipe it off making all lazy spiders running like headless …
Fishermen and Farmers
We are essentially fishermen and farmers in action. Even in swanky cubicles. While I go for the beach walks, I notice fishermen huts with kids playing. The male guardians of those homes are deep …
Reality repellants
reality /rɪˈalɪti/ noun - the state of things as they actually exist, as opposed to an idealistic or notional idea of them. Anything which is larger than life is exciting. Be it a cinema, …
Alternative universes
Do you want data or drama? Stories are narrative constructs that make us feel good about the world we live in. It also is an indication of the kind of world we want to live in. And wildly, the …
Shut-down maintenance
You should think of the word ‘depressed’ as ‘deep rest.’ Your body needs to be depressed. It needs a deep rest from the character that you’ve been trying to play.” - Jim Carrey. Depression is …
Code robot
A code robot is asking me to log in to a website by claiming that I'm human. I had an instant existential crisis at that moment. …