I have come to that stage of my life where I am least interested in making new connections. I feel like I am completely exhausted with my real-life friend’s list. I have a small list of friends and I am happy with them around me. I am finding everything else as a distraction. I am …
Author Archives: Atul
The Anarchy
I finished reading The Anarchy this week. I enjoyed reading it and gaining more knowledge about Indian history I also felt the author being a Mughal apologist. Throughout the book, the author mentions the atrocities committed by the British, the Jats, the Marathas, the Rohillas et all. I got to know about the powerful Marathas …
Incentive
Product development should focus more on the incentives for their stakeholders. Don’t create a feature-rich product but take end-users requirements to its core. Most products have more than one personas, understanding it and working towards eliminating the pain would be a good start. People don’t buy a product because it’s sexy, but because they have …
animal
I was going through Aristotle’s “Nicomachean Ethics“. I am still half way though. There is a good lecture on the same by Adam Rosenfeld which I am also watching. Along with Stoics, looks like Aristotle is going to be the Philosopher I am going to spend good part of my life reading and learning from. …
act
Some meetings turn out bad, meeting where the other person acts inappropriately because they could afford to do that. How hollow are we with this external layer over ourselves: power, position, designation? Do we not know that these are all temporary? Don’t be prideful with any excellence that is not your own. If a horse …
default
I have spent the last two years with some reading and taking care of myself. I wish I could have done this much earlier. One thing I have learned all this time is that our brain by default is a pessimist. Reading Philosophy made me realize the meaning of self-knowledge, observing my thoughts. Since our …
generation gap
It is amazing how the thought process works. What is great for you might worth dime for your parents. The generation gap exists, seeing the world in a different lens. You might think you have achieved everything in life but for your parents, you are still not settled. Settling down means getting married, having kids …
broken
We are all broken. Broken by rules, relations, and rituals. This brokenness has its misery, a hollow world. A world that makes us not believe in ourselves. A world that makes us no nuts over our minuscule success. A world that makes us not believe in our own self. There is so much one can …
stereotypes
I was at dinner last week where my friend told his son that “boys don’t cry.” I was tempted to remind him of the number of times he cried during college days for many reasons. I dislike gender-based stereotypes. We have grown up hearing and listening to what man should do or not do. This …
past
Still reading The Anarchy. It depicts the East India Company’s rule in India. How true are the described incident, I have no clue? How from Mughals, Afghans, Persians, Maratha, Dutch, French and British rule: India was robbed. I felt sad for our country, reading thought the atrocities and loot. The various small empires, their strategies, …