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Deadly "pressure-to-perform" claims another life
A 25 year old with technical and business degrees from IIT and IIM, the top Indian colleges and working for McKinsey, the world’s best consulting company. Everyone would say what an amazing guy. The mental pressure around the two statements is in itself unimaginable.
It is generally accepted that at least 3 years of work experience is required to take up an advanced or Master’s degree and in the…
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#academic stress#consulting#IIM#IIT#McKinsey#mental health#mental wellbeing#micromanagement#office politics#peer pressure#societal expectation#suicide#toxic work culture#work pressure
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The woes of Byju's
Just as everyone thought the layoffs winter can’t get any more frigid and worse, looks like Byju is going to be laid off from Byju’s.
Every Edtech company has three components 1) Education 2) Technology 3) Business and management. That Byju Raveenran is an accomplished tutor is a well known fact. That his classes and method of teaching had immense potential to go online was also there which was…
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#Byju Raveendran#Byju&039;s#covid#edtech#investment#investors#unicorns#valuation#venture capitalists
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Facing life problems from nature's perspective
I came across this interesting image on a social media post.
In the image, escaping from such a situation is impossible. Now look closely.
1) Snakes do not prey on humans so no snake will lie waiting for the dangling guy.2) Male lions do not participate in hunting unless the lion pride is hunting a large prey such as a buffalo. A male lion would rather spend its time eating, sleeping or mating…
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Understanding our evolution through the lens of diet and nutrition
The Community Nutrition Forum (CNF) in my home state of Kerala in India organized a “Webinarathon” in celebration of National Nutrition Month in September. 15 days of 1 hour sessions conducted by expert dieticians and nutritionists about a range of topics such as basics of good nutrition, diet for different diseases and diet for different age groups. I missed the first few sessions but since then…
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#diet#dietetics#dietitians#fast food industry#food#genetics#healthy food#Human evolution#junk food#nature#nutrition#precision nutrition#sunlight#Vitamin D
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Why are we scared of animals?
This rat snake scaled the neighbor’s wall and lay there long enough for me to do its photoshoot.
When I sent these photos to my contacts on Whatsapp, majority of them sent me gawking emojis in fear. So why do we fear snakes?
Animals attack other animals primarily for food, protecting their offspring, self protection and in rare cases rescuing a fellow animal from its attacker(s). Snakes do not…
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Life lesson from my dad's passing
Its been a month since my dad’s passing and as mom and I continue to reminisce about his life and reconcile with his loss, I am realizing that life has taught me an important lesson.
Both Dad and his younger brother were tall and heavy and both had acid reflux issues (thanks to their maternal genes). But how their health unraveled took two contrasting roads.
1. Extreme acid reflux can simulate…
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Obituary of my dad
It has been a week since the sudden demise of my dad (at 72 years) and through our bereavement mom and I have had a lot to contemplate about his life. As a person, he was outright, outspoken and honest, a little too much for his own good. As a caring son and loving husband he was peerless and as a father he was borderline maniac. Nothing I did ever impressed him. He always believed I could do…
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The risks and reward of using AI in stock market
Got invited to a talk on “A.I. for wealth creation in the stock market” at an investor’s meet in my hometown and came away completely bamboozled. The speaker, the CEO of a brokerage firm, seemingly an expert on stock markets had zero knowledge about how AI works. He threw up a few slides on AI that were incomprehensible to the largely local non-tech savvy attendees and then started demonstrating…
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#AI#Artificial Intelligence#backpropagation algorithm#data analytics#emotional intelligence#human emotions#machine learning#pattern recognition#prediction models#predictive analytics#stock market#supervised machine learning
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Heat pollution and Earthquakes - Why the world needs to have broader conversations about climate change
According to NASA website, “Global warming is the long-term heating of Earth’s surface observed since the pre-industrial period (between 1850 and 1900) due to human activities, primarily fossil fuel burning, which increases heat-trapping greenhouse gas levels in Earth’s atmosphere.”
NASA’s definition of global warming is misleading for a very specific reason. It is placing the primary…
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#carbon emission#carbon neutrality#depopulation#Earth#earthquakes#global warming#greenhouse effect#heat pollution#human population#population control
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Why we need to understand our origins and history before building artificial intelligence
According to ancient Sumerian tablets, a race of beings from another planet called Anunnaki descended on Earth in search of gold. Why they needed gold isn’t clear yet but they needed lots of gold. When the slaves they brought with them to mine for gold revolted, they extracted the genes of pre-human race of beings (Neanderthals, Homo Erectus) and combined with their own genes to create us. This…
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#AI#Anunnaki#Artificial Intelligence (AI)#Bible#ChatGPT#control#emotionalintelligence#Genesis 1:26-28#Genetic engineering#God#Gold#Terminator series#The Matrix Trilogy
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The deeper impact of the Adani meltdown
A critical aspect of the fallout of the Adani group or any similar large business is how its lenders are going to deal with the aftershock and this is something I haven’t seen addressed anywhere. Post covid all big and small lenders are aggressively liquidating assets of borrowers whose loans have turned NPAs. I know this because I proof read ads of possession and sale notices published by banks…
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#Adani Group#banks#business loans#Financial institutions#Gautam Adani#Hindenberg report#Modi#NPA#SARFAESI act
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Why employees quit jobs because of bad managers
LinkedIn has been inundated with posts about employees quitting jobs because of bad managers for quite some time. While this is true and I have done the same in my past jobs, a good amount of introspection coupled with plenty of reading has helped me understand my experiences better.
The origins of bad managers lies in the history of management itself. Industrial revolution gave rise to…
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History Is Not Going To Be Kind To Modi’s Legacy
There is a delightful and must watch Malayalam social satire movie, Pranchiyettan and the Saint that was released in 2010. Pranchi is the colloquial Malayalam version of the name Francis and ettan means big brother. Superstar Mammootty plays the titular role of Pranchiyettan and the film’s background is set in the market of wholesale dealers of rice in Thrissur in Kerala which incidentally…
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Understanding Business Objectives In The Chaos Of Corporate Layoffs
News of layoffs from the Silicon Valley heavyweights and the startup world are grabbing headlines and eyeballs each day now. Professional social media platform LinkedIn is inundated with posts from laid off employees expressing anguish at the way they were locked out of company premises and office computer networks abruptly. There are several reasons for what has been happening but it would be…
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#Amazon#Business strategy#cost reduction#cost to company (CTC)#COVID-19#Google#layoffs#Meta#PESTEL#profit#revenue#startups
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Exposing human ignorance about nature
Came across this social media post about a leopard and a dog getting stuck inside a toilet and the leopard choosing to not feed on the dog. What is interesting is the comments of wildlife researchers who have opined that the leopard became sad because it got stuck inside the toilet and lost its freedom so it no longer had interest in feeding. The glaring flaw here is, if this was true all…
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Birding fantasy - When a Amur Falcon grappled with a Black-winged Kite
Birding fantasy – When a Amur Falcon grappled with a Black-winged Kite
October to February of every year are the most important months for the birding community. Birds in the Northern Hemisphere embark on their epic migration to escape the onset of the frigid winter season and in search of food. They start migrating after the end of their breeding season so they lose all their breeding plumage and develop nondescript plumage that can help them blend into the…
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The startup ecosystem is all about money and nothing about innovation
The startup ecosystem is all about money and nothing about innovation
The recruiting head of a startup company based out of my home state in India contacted me recently for a senior role. Seemingly buoyed at my profile being a good fit for the role, she immediately set up an online interview. I went through the company website and checked out the team. When the interview invite came, I saw that the CEO was in the list of attendees and checked his LinkedIn profile.…
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#CXO#hiring#innovation#investment#organization culture#recruitment#startup ecosystem#startup funding#startups#team culture
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