Few lame jokes on the mathematical construct 🙂
Category: Rationally Irrational
Rationally Irrational
Mind control or Control over Mind?!
Mind control versus control over Mind – are they one and the same?
Thinking outside the box – significance of the number 4!
Thinking outside the box. What could this possibly mean? A different look into our “conditioning” and associated possibilities:-)
The top 3 reasons why you will always have 4 great options and 5 cool opportunities
Hell, I am not going to reel of rationale behind this seemingly crazy title! To explain my method in this madness, I did a sample analysis of the top viewed posts on a popular professional networking platform, and this is what I found:- 18 out of the top 20, raking in 1 million+ to 500…
Festina Lente!
Welcome to the world of oxymorons and more. I wanted to dedicate a post to this literary invention of man, without which it sometimes becomes difficult to accentuate scenes, situations and context and also add some good old humor while we are at it. The dictionary meaning for oxymoron indicates “sharp/pointed” and “dullness / foolishness”…
Discrimination on Indian railways? Side berth’ians versus main berth’ians
I am posting this as I travel on a train back to base (in an AC 2 tier coach). Had been off for a few weeks along with kids for their summer vacations (as like the thousand or more other families who exhibit the migrating birds syndrome every year). And as luck would have it,…
A picture is worth a thousand words, or is it?
They say that a picture is worth a thousand words or more. Sorry, I beg to differ. In my view, a well written / spoken few words could be worth more than a dozen pictures. What is this worth that we are talking about here? The ability to communicate a thought / topic / message…
Fiction in Diction
Picture this – you can simplify something, you can beautify someone, you can pacify someone but you cannot complexify anything, as much as you want to because that would complicate matters! Why would I want to compli-cate something when all I want is to complexi–fy it? 🙂 Surprise, you can complexify things. Did you know…
How do we make choices?
I often wonder, what is it that gives us the gift to make a choice. Is it ingrained in our genes, passed down from our ape ancestors or was this something that we are taught and we learn as we grow, by our parents and the external world? If we knew this, then can we…
Most common phrases at work – what would work be, sans these?
We all thrive on using common phrases to describe situations, emphasize meaning – in our day to day life and work scenarios. It is also evident that there is a very divided school of thought around the usage / application of such phrases in day to day communication. To those few, who do get irritated…
Random Musings 