Of Snowballs, or 5 Lessons from Warren Buffett

Buffett is someone I’ve always been curious to learn more about. A self-made billionaire (and yet, a publicly admired/popular person), a man of simple tastes who’s communications are filled with homespun (and sometimes, self-deprecating) humor, Buffet can be an inspiration and a fascination at the same time. As a student in graduate school in 2006, [...]

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India

As I watched news about the 26/11 attack, about Shiv Sena criticizing SRK for performance with a Pak channel, and the sportsmen winning medals in Asiad, could not help being overwhelmed by the wonder that is the amazing nation of India. Carefully sewn together by Sardar Patel and Menon from the 500+ states left after [...]

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Delivering Happiness… — Tony Hsieh

It is always nice to meet with people who brim with energy and passion. It is in this cocktail of effort and meaning that life can become a lot of fun. Tony Hsieh recently visited Google to talk about his new book: Delivering Happiness. Hsieh is an entrepreneur, a venture-capitalist and salesman, now trying his [...]

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Authenticity

I was recently interviewing with a prestigious company. During the conversation, my interviewer and I started speaking about leadership. It was a spontaneous flow of exchanges on a topic we both felt passionately about. “Now this is going to take longer than the recruiter said, so do not feel negatively if I ignore her warnings [...]

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Penniless Woman Gives Away Bounties

You are far away from family, in a town where you hardly know anyone. You’ve come here for the sake of your job, which you lose. And then you lose your car. Savings dwindle. In such a situation, what do you do? “I went off into the woods and I started yelling at God,” she [...]

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Joy in Sight

I took this picture on a trip to New Orleans in 2007. The picture is a reminder to look further in to life, and appreciate its beauty more and more. Life, truly, is wonderful! Anyone can create their own posters at http://www.Bughugelabs.com

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Beauty at the Bottom

Spring at the Door. It is that time of the year when trees have bare branches, few leaves. But the number of leaves is slowly increasing, a few more every day. You look at a tree, and even if the number of leaves is scarce, you know that there are going to be more tomorrow. [...]

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Inspiration: ‘Invictus’ by W E Henley

Invictus Out of the night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed. Beyond this place of wrath [...]

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Updates and Links

It’s been a while since I wrote something here. Life has been hectic, for good. During a span of 3 weeks, I spent time in Canada (Waterloo, Toronto), USA (New York, San Jose, Mountain View) and India (Amritsar, Chandigarh). Good times. There are times in life when you just flow with the flow. Jo bhi [...]

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Flow

Two things. First, the word from the initial pioneer, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. Second, a nice write-up from Leo Babauta. Let us begin with the video: Next, the nice post summarizing the idea at Zen Habits. Hope you find it useful!

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