FOMO is the acronym for Fear Of Missing Out. It’s a feeling inside us that other people around us may be experiencing something great, fun, and awesome, but we are missing out on it. In our new world, social media has the highest degree of contribution towards FOMO in us. When our peers may be…
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day316 – Mayan wisdom
I happened to watch a report of the World Economic Forum that Mexico is building a train station inspired by the ruined Mayan civilization at Tulum city. In the station, the wood-lined roof regulates heat and sunlight. Experts say that this sustainable architecture is optimal for the tropical climate of Mexico. Some places in the…
day315 – Conscious farming
I’ve often felt that farming is among the most significant exercises to practice our patience and perseverance. When I was a child I lived at my ancestral home and where we had paddy fields out in the front. Then I felt like having my own private paddy area (maybe a couple of square feet) and…
day314 – Lullaby
I happened to randomly go through the voice recordings of a friend of mine. One of the recordings was interesting. He had recorded himself singing a lullaby. I asked him what made him record it. He told me, “I use this recording to sleep when I find it difficult to sleep on certain occasions. You…
day313 – Mondo Bongo
Today I felt like I should talk about one of my favourite songs. It’s more like a summer rain on a warm night! I’m talking about the Mondo Bongo song by Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros on the album Mondo Bongo. This song is so special to me. It is something I play with love….
day312 – Fin-Tip
There was a professor in my college whom I love and respect a lot. On the last day of my last exam of the final semester, he gave me a call and asked when I’d be leaving to go home. I said I’d leave the next day and he said give me a call once…
day311 – Difference of 0.1%
I was watching some videos of Riccardo Sabatini, who’s a physicist and entrepreneur, talking about the genes we all carry. Many of the facts are really eye-opening ones. If we convert our complete genome to text our genetic code would occupy about 2.6 lakh pages, which is roughly 650 medium-size books, but, of those, only…
day310 – The philosophy game
Philosophy is a word that originates from the Greek “philosophia” meaning “love of wisdom”. Basically, it’s the study of the fundamental perspectives on life, like existence, values, the mind, etc… It may sound outdated but it’s only today that I came to know about the “philosophy game” we can play with Wikipedia. When a friend…
day309 – Connect backwards
I had a memories notification on my social media account today from 9 years ago. 9 years ago, on July 7th 2012, the shooting of the very first episode of a gadget show we created and produced for a television channel took place. That particular post has popped up as the memory. Those days our…
day308 – The tougher self
I was chit-chatting with a friend of mine. A decade ago he was my batchmate in college but he dropped the course because of ragging. (Yes, in those days ragging was widespread on our campus and in the hostel.) When I look at the ragging experiences of those days I realise it was mental and…