Everyday morning when Facebook memories pop up, it can delight or disturb you. Delighted, when we see life as a miracle. Disturbed, when we see how we grow as an individual. The idea of timeline is …
Success factors.
Ernst & Young, one of the UK's biggest graduate recruiters, has announced it will be removing the degree classification from its entry criteria, saying there is "no evidence" success at university …
Blind spots.
What is a blind spot? - a tendency to ignore something especially because it is difficult or unpleasant. Our blind spots are ours. Salute people who identify it for us. …
Break the pattern.
Consistency is the playground of dull minds, says Yuval Noah Harari. Solution? Break the pattern. Reboot. …
Hiring bias.
“If you hire only those people you understand, the company will never get people better than you are. Always remember that you often find outstanding people among those you don’t particularly like.” …
Learners’ dilemma.
Learning never exhausts the mind. - Leonardo da Vinci. But our education system exhausts brilliant people. I ask my son, "do you like learning?" - he instantly replies, "yes I love learning, but …
Traditional colleges will gradually die.
677 universities, 37,204 colleges and 11,443 stand-alone institutions and 20 million students, in India. University and college teachers are not equipped to deal with the new knowledge explosion. …
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Festival of ideas.
Waking up at 4 am = nearly impossible. But last three days, I did that. To read a book written by Yuval Noah Harari. I'd love to call him 'The Prophet of the New World'. His book Homo Deus: The Brief …
Learning is now a level playing field.
I recommend many young people to explore new skills through active online learning using Udemy, Lynda, Simplilearn, Udacity, Coursera or Tree House. Last weekend, I did a course in Udemy on Digital …
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A dose of solitude.
What I enjoy most during my occasional stay with my parents, apart from being part of a family, which is unconditional and non-judgemental, it's the meditative time, uninterrupted mostly, and the …
Talking to your child.
Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time. - Rabindranath Tagore. Whenever I talk to my child, I remember this quote. Profound. …
Why waste time in mediocre colleges?
Nano-degree programs offered by Udacity are superior and effective compared to conventional university programs. Courses developed by Google, Facebook, AT&T, GitHub, Amazon, IBM Watson, MongoDB …
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Economics in 30 minutes.
Many of us want things to be done instantly. Less pain, more gain. How do we learn complex subjects in simple manner? Without the hard thing of going through a grind. My friend who researches on …
Write your own script.
From childhood, the only entertainment, my sister and I had, was watching new movies. Since then, we admired film makers. Maniratnam and Steven Spielberg were household names. After two decades, …
Self organised learning
When I was 15, my school library had NatGeo magazine subscription. And during lunch breaks, they allow me skim through those glossy pages. Now, my son watches NatGeo YouTube channel everyday in my …