Learning! It’s at the core of the 7th habit of Steven Covey’s Seven Habits of Effective People — Sharpen the Saw! You need to continually enhance your greatest asset, which is You. The advent of MOOCs has revolutionized the learning space and has made it easy to learn. You don’t…

You must have lived this moment in your school days. You prepare for your written test leaving one tough chapter. You get the question paper in your hand, you run an anxious look at the paper and your heart stops for a moment. The question from the tough chapter is…

A few years back and many years after the floppy disks became obsolete, I coined a phrase at my work — “preparing a boot floppy”! The team around me knew what I meant. Some of you, especially those who do not have a bunch of grey hair, may not have…

I hear this quite often and heard this again just last week - “My Gmail account has become a mess and I think I should abandon this one and create a new one”. It’s a common sight! You get too many useless emails every day adding to the already accumulated…

An esteemed associate of mine once shared a snapshot of the screen of her computer to show an interesting article opened in one of the tabs of her browser (see featured image). To me, in that picture, the more striking thing than the article was the countless open tabs in…

Last Friday, the 13th incidentally, I got a meme about Monday blues, which, I would say, captured the whole sentiment behind this phenomenon. It said, “FRIDAY THE 13 THIS STILL BETTER THAN MONDAY THE WHATEVER”. When I shared it back in Teams group chat, at my office, there was an…

Everyone needs creative ideas all the time to solve tough problems in life, both personal and professional. One of my ex-colleagues, a voluntarily retired Indian Army General, said quite often, that he got his best ideas when he was at three B’s. …

I remember a sleepy afternoon, about 45 years back when my teacher, during my visit to his house, unexpectedly asked me if I collected newspaper clippings. When I shook my head no, he pulled out his stash of newspaper clippings and advised me to acquire this habit! …

Shravan appeared much relieved when I said, “No. Don’t worry. It happened with me too.” Whenever I talk to Shravan, my pal, we always end up talking about memories from our childhood. His pain came from the fact that however vividly he remembered inconsequential and mostly useless details of incidents…