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2024 year in review
2024 was a roller coaster of a ride. In my last year’s post, I had a few themes that I wanted to spend my time on. Here’s a quick glance on how they turned out – Category – General Theme Status / Comments Sharpen writing skills This was harder than I thought. There isn’t a…
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2023 reflections, 2024 things to come
Quote of the year “Focus on things you can control, ignore the rest” – The dichotomy of control – Stoics 2023, in my early 30s, it is the first year that I felt the effects of stability. I didn’t have to worry about stuff that I have been dealing on and off since I graduated…
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A year in Sweden
About a year ago, on 16th May 2021, amidst heavy lockdown in India, I packed 25 kg of cloths, spices, assortment of itty bitty things in a suitcase and set off towards a new chapter in life. I had to apply for an e-pass from police to make this journey. All eCommerce and stores were…
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Reinventing yourself (in 2022)
In retrospect of last two years, I created an opinionated list meta skills that could help add little more meaning to our monotonous lives. #1 Ask for what you want. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. A few influencers have made this mainstream these days and I am happy they did. We…
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Book Review – Hell Yeah or No
The modern mind is over stimulated, the modern body under stimulated -Naval Ravikant Attention is the currency of today’s digital world. There are a lot of things that seek a piece of your attention, which has a limited quota. We are bombarded with tons of content. This adds a lot of noise to our life.…
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Breaking smartphone addiction
Things that “The Social Dilemma” missed in the documentary. The Social Dilemma is a great documentary that should have been published a few years ago. It’s a one of a kind film that focuses on the down sides and business model of the big social media corporations. It touches on quite a few questions around…
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John Lennon – Imagine
This is the very first piece I wrote for an internal writers portal at my first job back in 2014. I found it one of my early free blogs on WordPress. I have copied it here along with all its imperfections to remind myself where I started from. My journey of English or foreign music…