September 27th, 2024. There’s something peculiar about how certain dates tattoo themselves onto your consciousness. They become more than just another Friday – they transform into these invisible thresholds between who you were and who you become. That particular TGIF evening decided to rewrite not just our life’s trajectory, but our entire understanding of what…
It has been 152 days since I published anything here. Not because of lack of subject matter, but life just moved too fast. A lot of major and minor things happened, so let’s first get the recap out of the way. We are in a new year. Happy 2024. 2023 was transformative beyond expectation. Hope…
Very rarely in your life, you meet people who have the capability to think with you, and more rarely do you get an opportunity to work with them, spend most of your waking time having fun. (Cause with this set, work feels like fun) You really cannot make it happen yourself. It happens. And while…
Everyone seems to be doing a yearly app for me. What a sweet gesture. Reminded me of doing one myself, from everythig that I remember. So here we go. First, lets take stock.. (from 2021 review) 2022 came with its own set of learnings and challenges. Things looked bleak in the first 3 months of the year.…
Every BITSian’s day, I follow a ritual. I open up my bits mail drive and deep dive into nostalgia pleasure. I plug in my 2 TB hard drive fill it up to the brim with content from DC and see the immaculate organisation of media that I might never watch. And lastly, I watch the…
How do we measure progress? A bunch of variables, benchmarked against what is being exhibited by people around the world. We have been trained to do so! Measuring ourselves against the competition that is “Out There” is not just phenotype but is ingrained in our genes. Our world is a relative world. The idea of…
The last two weeks have been fun, trying to figure out why we move like cars on a highway as if we have destinations to reach, which never seem to arrive. This brings me back to the subject, “What is it all about?” The question is like an onion, layers of which are constituted by questions…
I started investing in the markets last year. Everything made sense, or so I thought! Investing is a really fun game. You get to read a lot. You learn about a lot of businesses, a lot of whom were already a part of your daily lives but you never noticed. After a lot of reading…
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