Ideas No Screen Sundays Screen addiction is a very real thing in today’s digital world where apps are constantly trying to prey on our time. So, it’s natural that we have been reduced to a commodity in the attention economy.
Ideas Meaningful Work, Caring People It all starts with asking yourself 2 fundamental questions: Are we doing the work that matters most? Do we really care about our work?
Technology Duplex Points to the Future of Assistant and Google Itself! Google just demoed Duplex, a powerful upgrade to the Google Assistant, that could potentially revolutionize both our personal productivity as well as the expectations we have of AI in our lives.
Technology 10 Reasons Why Flipkart Should Have Chosen Amazon over Walmart! India is a must-win market for Jeff Bezos after China. He will never give it up.
Life Entertaining Doubt When you do, entertain doubt and ask yourself: What makes me, me? Is who I am now who I want to be? How much of who I will become depends on me? Why am I here?
Life 36 Traits of Love It made me reflect on the traits that make up my own language of love. The more mindful I have become of these mechanics, the more I strive to use them for those I care about.
Life Questions to Myself: A Work in Progress The answers to several of these questions are like myself, a work in progress. They develop nuance and perspective over time, and I revisit them frequently to stay grounded. I hope they serve you well too.
Life How Do You Love Yourself? Self-love is notoriously difficult and I’ve been terrible at it all my life. But an unbearable grief this year broke my heart open so I could begin this process of becoming more than I am.
Life What I Learned from 2017 2017 was the toughest year of my life. It pulled me down to a level I didn’t believe existed. But luckily I weathered the storm and learned a few lessons about myself and other people along the way.
Government UNGA #72 As the 72nd session of the UN General Assembly kicks off here in New York I can’t help but wonder about the state of the free world.
Life Twenty Thousand Days on Earth 71.4 years. Most of us on Earth today will live this long. But the number that really matters is 20,000 days. This is the useful time we get on this pale blue dot.
Technology Making a Mind Our ability to add intelligence to anything and everything we desire will be the defining trait of our generation and set the stage for the next technological and social revolution.
Government Building a Nation of Joy The UAE is one of a handful of nations who are asking a question that is fundamentally different - What happens when happiness is at the core of everything?
Government Insightful Encounters: Zain Habboo from the United Nations Foundation I sat down with the indomitable Zain Habboo during the World Government Summit in Dubai to discuss her take on the digital media landscape and the impact of her work on the world.
Government Realizing Universal Basic Income Universal Basic Income is a viable alternative to subsidies. But it has never been implemented at scale because of socioeconomic and political ideologies.
Ideas Life in Numbers The fact is when you recalibrate your sense of time from months and years to a percentage, a lifetime turns out to be not long enough.
Government Leadership in the 21st Century Proactive leadership has always been nothing but servant leadership and it all begins with the natural feeling that one always wants to listen, serve and improve the lives of others.
Ideas Charting Life A simplified exploration of life and its challenges using charts. Perhaps these will help us to know ourselves better and get to where we need to be.
Technology Super Human Trends These are the 10 trends that will define our way of living for the next 100 years! Innovators will exploit them to chart out a new course for the human race.
Ideas The 5 Myths of Pressure Pressure is an intrinsic part of our lives but wrongly lauded as the catalytic agent in our growth story. Stop lying to yourself. Pressure is never worth it.
Ideas The Dilemmas of a Social Business Is profit bad? Is profit worth more or less than social impact? All social businesses must essentially grapple with five such existential dilemmas.
Ideas What Will You Teach Me Today? Most people are governed by the myth of mastery. They believe that everything that is learnt, or even taught, must be done so with the intent to master it.
Ideas Life and the Laws of Money Money, like any other entity, conforms to a set of behavioral laws which limit its interactivity and function. These are the laws that govern money.
Startups The Only 3 Questions to Ask an Angel Investor If you are a startup founder wanting to tap external funds to support the growth trajectory of your company then your best bet would be to find an angel.
Ideas The Three Phases of a Discussion If an authentic discussion is the simplest form of the exchange of human knowledge then all conversation revolves around its three phases.