The origin of this blog I have been aware of the term burnout for a while. In fact, in the first weeks of COVID I had written of burnout from my experiences with WFH. As time progressed, I thought I had identified the issues and started to act on it. I took a couple of…
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From loneliness to solitude
I did not know the word solitude for the longest time. If you are like me, the definition of solitude is the state or situation of being alone. However it’s not the same as loneliness. If loneliness is being alone as an unwanted state of being, solitude is the exact opposite. It’s the state of…
Continue ReadingAre we risk averse or uncertainty averse?
Over the last 12 months, I have started listening to a lot of podcasts. One of such podcasts is The Knowledge Project which has a lot of interesting conversations ranging from science, mathematics, people and psychology. On one of the recent episodes the speaker was Jim Collins. A particular term he used in the podcast…
Continue ReadingThe costs of freedom
Having grown up in India which is heavily influenced by western ideals and having lived in US for a bit, the idea of freedom is sacred to me. We all want freedom of expression, of speech, of desire. Freedom is the ideal to strive for. Or so the western philosophy goes to a great extent….
Continue ReadingMisbehaving Humans
Humans are very interesting beings. On various different occasions, I have made an assumption that human beings are rational beings able to make thoughtful decisions based on information available on hand to them. In a lot of fields, we use a similar assumption of rational human beings. Economics is one such field.
Continue ReadingDigital Minimalism
Background This is the COVID world. Staying at home, staying away from people, working at home, attending zoom calls all day long are part of the new normal for a lot of people. In the last 6 months, I had started feeling that I am online (or in front of a screen) more and more….
Continue ReadingBeing strong by being Quiet
Every book is an insight into someone’s soul, a lifetime of discovery condensed into an easily digestible format. Yet not all books are created equal. Most books touch you but very few can be termed as profound. One such profound book that I read recently was Quiet: The power of introverts by Susan Cain. It…
Continue ReadingFear of missing out (FOMO)
Fear of missing out is defined on Wikipedia as “a pervasive apprehension that others might be having rewarding experiences from which one is absent”. This social anxiety is characterized by “a desire to stay continually connected with what others are doing”. Before I started writing this blog I thought it was just a cultural term…
Continue ReadingTo crave or not to crave
It is quite likely that in the last hour you craved momentarily for something or someone or a feeling. It usually hits us out of the blue, sometimes lasting for one moment while at other times it lingers on. It could be a feeling of intense desire, it could be that sudden hunger for ice…
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