When everything else fails...“When everything else fails, just tell your story. That’s what makes you unique. Isn’t that why you fell in love with writing in the first place? To tell your story.” I stare at the above lines I had scribbled in my notebook years ago. I don’t know whether I wrote them, or I…
Simplification vs OptimizationIn his book "How To Fail At Everything And Still Win Big," Adam Scott, the creator of Dilbert comics, distinguishes people into two categories: simplifiers and optimizers. Simplifiers choose the easiest way to accomplish a task, even if some extra effort might have produced a…
Feynman's Twelve Problem ApproachRichard Feynman was a Nobel Prize-winning physicist. He is best known for his groundbreaking discoveries in Theoretical Physics and Quantum Mechanics for which he received Nobel Prize in 1965. As a child, he already showed a talent for engineering, once building a functioning…
I know what cows feel when they fly“Are you sure you aren’t coming?” asked my husband before walking into the briefing session before his first-ever indoor skydiving. We were on a cruise to New Zealand and just before that, we both stood near the glass dome where an instructor was helping some daring souls to…
A Whimsical Writer
A Whimsical Writer
A Whimsical Writer
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