Dear N,
It’s been a week. Thanks to you and your acha, I had a viral fever almost the entire week. You can keep your ayyo to yourself. ðŸ˜
But I not really angry with you. It seems your amma told D that you used to say I was your favourite cousin. I don’t know if that is true. I do know that I don’t deserve it. But you were easily my favourite cousin, and I know that I gave you less than you deserved.
(more…)Sangeet Paul Choudary
Reshuffle is a book I had been looking forward to reading ever since I started seeing Sangeet Paul Choudary’s excerpts and related posts. And despite reading all those posts, the book had sufficient meat to make it an excellent read. One that offers great perspectives on dealing with the influx of AI in work – at an individual and business level.
I think I have a bias for the book because of a few reasons. One, it follows a clear systems thinking approach, and the logic and reasoning is robust. Two, it is a strategic and framework-driven exploration, which means it offers tools to think about this in one’s own contexts. Three, it’s not just theory. The book provides sufficient examples that can serve as starting points on how to think through this. That, as you’d notice is an elegant why-what-how approach.
(more…)I read Tara Isabella Burton’s Strange Rites in 2023 – a book about the decline of religion and what’s replacing it. Since then, I have been connecting a few dots. This is the pattern I see.
For most of human history, we lived in communities of circumstance. We were born into a home, a town, a religion, a trade. We didn’t have much of a choice, we just inherited it. And while it had its flaws, many people made it work.Â
(more…)Rutger Bregman
On one hand, I really hoped Humankind would be meaningful, and on the other, I am quite a cynic. Bregman writes towards the end of the book that cynicism is just another name for laziness, an excuse not to take responsibility. I am not sure I agree completely because I do feel the rage against injustice, and do take action sometimes, but largely my question has been ‘what is the point?’
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