Learning from Masterchef Australia
Applied the learning of cutting the corn kernels from Masterchef Australia !! Takes a few moments and works really well.
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Arjuna – Lessons in Up-skilling and Re-skilling
In the ongoing Mahabharata re-telecast, in an episode yesterday Guru Dronacharya constructs the Chakravyuha (a battle formation) in order to capture Yudhistra. The Kaurava strategy was to lure Arjuna away by getting the Susharma brothers to engage him in a duel. Arjuna falls prey to that strategy and keeps following the Susharma brothers who … Read more
New Words
Am reading this delicious book titled “A Gentleman in Moscow” and I am reading it really slowly because its that kind of book. You just want to linger on every page and hope that the book never really ends :). Along the way, I have picked up four new words. Hadn’t heard these words before, … Read more
The difficulty of becoming who you are…
In my childhood, I wanted myself to do, and be, various things in my life. Some of them are: become the driver of Pandian Express (it was once the fastest express train in Southern Railway), a black belt in Karate (inspired by Bruce Lee and Enter the Dragon), Bharatnatyam Dancer (inspired by Kamal Hasan in … Read more
Google Identifies Its Very Best Leaders Using These 13 Questions | Inc.com
This is indeed very interesting…worth the read. Google surveys its employees using this set of discerning questions. — Read on http://www.inc.com/scott-mautz/google-identifies-their-very-best-leaders-using-these-13-questions.html
Learning while doing Laundry !
Day 20 – Sept 20, 2019 Zagreb, Croatia Since we are leaving Zagreb tomorrow, we decided to get our laundry done at the laundromat near the Airbnb and later in the evening we went out to eat ice cream at a special shop. We went really early to the laundromat. We had collected enough coins … Read more
What is so special about ShikshaDaan?
Bindu and I set up ShikshaDaan Foundation in the year 2012. The next three years sort of went away as we got to get various registrations, approvals and exemptions from the Government. Also, we wanted to study the higher education space in detail and come up with a unique value delivery model that truly delivers … Read more
Scotland Day 5 – Learning about the “key box”
Tuesday Aug 28th, 2018 Our train to Inverness from Edinburgh was at 8.34 am and Sriman had to go to work besides dropping off Nikki. So we combined everything and started early at 7.30 am. First we dropped off Nikki and her friend near their school and then Sriman dropped us off at the Waverley … Read more
“The Workplace Is Killing People and Nobody Cares” | Stanford Graduate School of Business
A new book examines the massive health care toll today’s work culture exacts on employees. — Read on http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/workplace-killing-people-nobody-cares
Learnt something new !
When Krishnan and I visited Egypt, way back in 2004, I had carried two cameras and a video recorder. In a 12 day trip I must have taken 2000 photos and that too using film rolls because we didn’t have a digital SLR. Then we upgraded to the digital SLR and I lugged that around … Read more