I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else
I have always struggled with taking risks Risk implies potential failures. And I hated failing. It was very easy to be the child every parent wanted to have – studious, following the rules and being every teachers’ favorite. But oft, I wondered if that is what I really wanted to do with my life – …
Episode 9 – On taking risks and having a life you seek Read More »
It was early 2020 and I had just lost dad. I was lost and torn. In a typical manner (that I don’t recommend) I thought I could fill my time to the brim with things to do. So that I don’t have to think about what I didn’t want to accept. I volunteered to be …
People don’t always get what they deserve We are brought up with a cognitive bias that assumes that actions have morally fair and fitting consequences. That the noble actions will be rewarded and evil will be punished. This also impacts the way we interpret others’ actions. The Just World Hypothesis postulates that ‘It can be …
The Just World Hypothesis – Not all success is due to hard work Read More »
The husband and I were changing into non-marking shoes right outside of our Tennis court last week. When this elderly gentleman who was playing the earlier set walks out. He looks at me and then points out the set of rules nearby Reading it out loud, almost as if I were a child. Calling out …
“You’re trying to buy a sweater, and you go into a store and you find a sweater that fits you. It looks good. It’s the right price. You buy it, you’re happy, you’re done. Right? It meets all of your criteria. You are a Satisficer. If you are a Maximizer – you will see that …
How do you build a happy life – Satisficers and Maximixers Read More »
Have you seen Google‘s latest text-to-image generator Imagen? Its an AI system that creates photorealistic images from input text As the paper states, ‘ Imagen builds on the power of large transformer language models in understanding text and hinges on the strength of diffusion models in high-fidelity image generation’ ‘Human raters strongly prefer Imagen over other …
All the images you see here are generated by an AI system Read More »
A Must-Ask Question to make Good Decisions I had a 1×1 yesterday with a senior leader I quite admire. We were chatting about decisions – and how one usually has to make them with incomplete information She mentioned an instance when she had to move roles and was quite torn about picking the right move …
“The job is what you do when you are told what to do. The job is showing up at the factory, following instructions, meeting spec, and being managed. Someone can always do your job a little better or faster or cheaper than you can. Your art is what you do when no one can tell …
[Podcast] – On Technology, AI, Jobs and Creating a level playing field Read More »
What do you do when people you manage fail? 1) You forgive and forget 2) You remember, pass blame, stigmatise and humiliate them 3) You forgive and remember The right approach that Bob Sutton, Professor of Management at Stanford University advocates is to *forgive* so that people have psychological safety and *remember*, so that you can learn, …
“In June 1944, Germany flew several raids on London. War experts plotted the position of each bomb as it fell and noticed one cluster near Regent’s Park, and another along the banks of the Thames. This clustering concerned them because it implied that the German military had designed a new bomb that was more accurate …