Category: Objective Philosophy
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Time Management – Another perspective!
Hrs/day 24 Sleeping 8 Fresh up, eating 1 Leisure 2 Exercise 1 Spirituality 1 Commute 1 Total Unavailable Hrs/day 14 Available Hrs/ day 10 For the available 10hrs/day, assume one works in 20mins intervals, i.e. 20mins focused work + 10mins break, then the overall focused work per hour is 40mins leading to 400mins (~6.5hrs) in…
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Managers or Leaders?
Often, I come across someone advising another person, “somehow manage it”, and ironically this talent of “somehow manage it” has become a well-regarded skill. “Somehow manage it” leads to pushing things under the carpet, it encourages a toxic culture, brings unwanted long-term stress, hides the real issues and paints the picture good. Occasionally people get…
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Evolve to Innovate! – A viewpoint
There’s no fun anymore in claiming to be developing an IoT solution to visualize data remotely or receive alerts in real time. It’s becoming as common as any company having a website. However, we need to acknowledge that the IoT, I-IoT or the I4.0 boom is motivating many to go back to the basics of…
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Framework of Spiritual Practise
I put this together based on Swami Sarvapriyananda’s talk on verse 39 of the Bhagavad Gita Problem Solution Method Agyanam (Ignorance) Gyanam (Knowledge) Shravana (listening) > Manana (reasoning) > Nididyasa (meditation)[ Jnana Yoga ] Vikshepa (Distraction) Ekagrata (Concentration) Upasana (Meditation)[ Raja Yoga ] Chitta Mala (Impurity of mind) Chitta Shuddhi (Purity of mind) Karma Yoga
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Using Social Media Effectively
If you are engaging on social media purely for your own benefit you should stop doing it, else you will enter into vicious circle and will be paralyzed with inaction or anxiety. The presence or absence of anyone should not negatively influence your thinking or actions.
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Why Nations Fail – Daron Acemoglu & James Robinson
I could relate the content with ST, particularly DM’s philosophy. The authors give many examples but one in particular gives the essences of a place called Nogales which is prosperous on one side where in poverty on the other side.They attribute it to two primary theories One leads to virtuous feeback circles where as the…
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How do you prolong a product’s valuable lifetime?
If you look objectively, the actual business interests of the initiative are after MR. Hence the longer the product is in the market the better. Even during the architecting phase one should keep that perspective to ensure market longevity of the product. In a disruptive environment, having a capable, scalable and resilient hardware with field…
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Sustainable happiness
I asked Perplexity GPT to apply the 5 why to “why should one earn a lot of money?”, here’s it’s response Would the world be a better place if we make point 5 as a priority for our children from childhood? Is it practical to do so? In this Katha Upanishad video Swami Sarvapriyananda quotes…
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A note on Systems Thinking, Systems Engineering, and Systems Architecting
To understand systems thinking, one must first gather the understanding of what a “system” means. A system is a combination of elements interconnected in a manner to achieve a specific purpose. Sometimes these elements are intelligent (agents) and their interactions are dynamic which lead to complex systems. Complex systems evolve over time to perform something…
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Conflict Management – Kautilya’s four Upayas!
A good friend reminded me of the terms Sama, dana, bheda , danda during a recent conversation. According to Kautilya’s Arthashastra these are four methods or Upayas of dealing with conflicts or in general people related problems. He says that these Upayas can be used individually or as a combination. They mean, Sama – conciliation…