I started my work career by doing an Intern at IBM. I definitely learned a lot on that role but that wasn’t really my first job. It was always going to be a short role with a fixed end date, so it always felt incomplete, like I didn’t belong. The first company where I joined…
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To 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…
Continue ReadingHumans: The only storytellers
About a month ago I got a chance to read a very interesting book called Sapiens. It was written by a historian and it was one of the most thought provoking books I have had a chance to read. I rarely read non-fiction but history interests me somewhat. This book was more of a mashup…
Continue ReadingLeaving Amazon (kind of), Embracing Change
At first I felt this title might be catchy like a clickbait. But then on pondering about it for a few minutes I realized that it is more truthful than catchy. The idea of leaving amazon is almost like the idea of embracing change. It makes me think about the transitions we make which are…
Continue ReadingThe Need for compassion
We live in troubled times. Maybe not all of us but most of us can sense the growing distrust among people. It may be Europe which has been devastated by multiple attacks recently or the war ravaged middle east. And more recently the feeling of distrust has been growing here at home in USA. I…
Continue ReadingAn Amateur Guide to meditation: The Still Mind
There are two things that I have become enchanted with over the last year or so: Meditation and Mindfulness. Both relate to your mind, one aims to train your mind while the other allows you to focus on now. In fact it is common to hear the term Mindfulness Meditation. As I wrote in my…
Continue ReadingThe Elusive state of equilibrium
We all talk about finding peace and harmony all the time. Of finding the balance between yin and yang. Of being one with the energy of the universe. I do want all of those things. I want to be in sync with the energy coursing through our universe as well.
Continue ReadingNow I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds
I was quiet, I once was Long before the darkness descended A stream of water I was Flowing down a small green hill I was full of life Of beings alive and not I gently continued my path down This little green hill of mine
Continue ReadingLooking for signs of life
You have been looking, hard I may say And yet its not what you expected to find Floating over darkened waters, icy and red Looking for the signs of life And there are none You are climbing the mountains Capped with glistening snow Looking for the signs of life And there are none
Continue ReadingJourney to the unknown : Thailand : From one city to another
To read from the beginning checkout : Part1 , Part2 , Part3 , Part4 Day 8 in Thailand and I was back at the starting point Bangkok. I had taken the overnight train from Nakhon si Thammarat and I believe the fare was around 800 THB for the AC Sleeper train. I had debated between…
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