Mountain View. Soon.

Life is fascinating. Circumstance and effort make for an exciting cocktail that changes taste all the time! I have some good friends in California. So, when I flew to San Fransisco last month, I was very excited to be meeting Gurshi and Sangat. Of course, I also had several back-t0-back interviews from 11:30 am till [...]

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A Clarity in Vision

It is an interesting stage where I am. This is going to be about the trajectory of my life, and what may seem like incoherent paths that I have recently traversed. Throughout the past few years, I have followed a deeper instinct in making choices. A lot of decisions have been taken at a subconscious [...]

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Some New Year Thoughts and Bertrand Russel on God

I wouldn’t be up to keeping specific New year resolutions, so I tell myself that new-year resolutions cramp us more than they free us. Instead, focus is best achieved out of inspiration. I am beginning the New Year with some ideas and inspirations. First, the idea of less, but the best. To live a life [...]

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The Surprising Science of Motivation

Dan Pink, the author of A Whole New Mind, talks at TED about motivation. Pink claims that extrinsic motivators like performance-based rewards (especially monetary) do not always improve performance. In fact, he argues, they have a largely diminishing effect on productivity, creative satisfaction and quality of work. Now Pink is not a philosopher or your [...]

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Of Work, Lessons, Scholarships… !

For the past 10 months, I’ve had time to work in the financial services area. Our company helps analyze data and provide strategic advice to the top credit card issuers in the US and UK. During this period, I have learned stuff about the work, office culture and myself. Need a place to put down [...]

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At Work: The Evolution of Beliefs

Considering that I have spent most of my life as a student, the past few months have brought exciting change with new observations. I’m going to try and write about a couple of views and how they have evolved. Belief: Looks do not matter. Evolution: Surely they are not the bottom line, but dressing slightly [...]

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