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Category: Life & Thoughts
Small chapters from my life, lessons learned and random thoughts.
The showroom effect
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Buying new clothes feels like a makeover at the store, but once home, I morph into a wrinkled, mismatched disaster. The culprit? The sneaky showroom lighting, of course!
The Philippines and America share an interesting connection
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Believe it or not, the US has an imperialist past. Not in the sense that it was colonized by Britain and other European powers, but in the sense that it colonized other nations.
We’ve been flying for over a hundred years
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Just thinking about the planes and their comfort (or the lack of it) in the early years gives me goosebumps.
Are you challenging your reports to do their best?
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The one leadership advice that stuck out in this episode, amid the boastfest, was the idea how a good leader enjoys bringing out the best in others and how that mission can be the biggest motivation to carry on with the difficult job of being a leader.
Hottest place on earth isn’t in India?
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Surprisingly, it’s not. I read this Vox article in the morning and discovered that the hottest place on earth is in – you guessed it – the US. Okay, you didn’t see that coming. I didn’t too. Death Valley holds the record for the highest temperature ever recorded. With how temperatures have been in the […]
India Women’s Cricket Team
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Some newspapers have dropped “women’s” from the team’s name while reporting news about them. The Morning Standard does that persistently. It has become very difficult to tell whether the team that’s being talked about–is it men’s or women’s. That, I think, is a good thing. It’s the real victory of journalism. We have finally accepted […]
Gadget Alert: Kindle Scribe
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Another obligatory gadget post, but this one’s quite late. I ordered it online at Amazon Spain in early November of 2023 in the pre-Black Friday sale and got it in my hands from my sister in late November. It’s been a couple of months of reading books on a large screen and scribbling away my […]
Is there such a thing as European Americans?
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Sure, there’s a Wikipedia page about it. And if you do a quick Google search, you’ll find more references to the term, mostly in academic context. But if it’s a well-known term, how come we don’t hear it often in social and popular media? Instead what we hear are terms like African Americans, Black Americans, […]
Gadget Alert: Steam Deck 256GB
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So, I finally got it. Only because of my company’s generous travel program that earns you money when you travel for work (see Rocketrip). It’s not easy to get a Steam Deck in India: it’s officially not available yet. The ones available on Amazon are pretty expensive. After some research, I found a reasonably-priced Deck […]