I feel like saying something today. tomorrow I might change my stand and people might say you are contradicting your past stand. In a world where contradiction is seen as a very bad thing… is it ok for people to contradict what they say? Contradiction means ‘deny the truth of (a statement) by asserting the opposite”. But what is Truth and according to whom? Aren’t … Continue reading 83/365 Can I Contradict Myself
So cheating is bad… But can some cheating be ok. Now don’t start thinking about all the kind of cheating you have done in life. Because we use the word cheating in a lot of different ways. As of now I am cheating. I started this project 80 days back and the plan is to write daily. But this is not written today, but yesterday … Continue reading 81/365 Can some types of cheating be OK?
There was a time in the past when even short durations could fit in large and meaningful conversations that hang around in your mind even after it is ended. They open up spaces inside us where we can fill in new knowledge and even use that to unlearn some of the things we already know. The pick up and drop off I do for my … Continue reading 79/365 Conversations & Learnings
There is the creator economy. I am not sure if it is for everyone, but I think everyone should create. Becoming a Creator is not about having a million followers. It is much more personal and valuable than that. I have been creating content in the sense of the word since 2005 with this blog, which was back then on blogspot and then moved to … Continue reading 78/365 Why Should We Create
Suspended straight jacket escape is one of the most famous Houdini trick. Yesterday I felt that writing did such a trick for me. It helped me tremendously… to get out of a mental space I was stuck. Not just that I also learned a few things interesting about me. If you remember my post yesterday, it was a weird piece as I was pouring out … Continue reading 77/365 Writing is a Houdini Trick
There are feelings that are tough to explain in words. I have such incidents at times. It is weird but I will try to explain it here. or attempt to put it in words. There are certain parts of my life that is more like a maze and I sometimes wonder where my space in it is. We all thrive in niches but we also … Continue reading 76/365 My space in a Maze
Is that a long journey…? in 2020 just before the pandemic broke I was at a teacher’s training institute in my home town in Kozhikode, talking to new teachers who were leaving the college that year…. and this was one of the question I had in mind. The Journey to being a teacher is what they had just completed… Now they need to travel to … Continue reading 74/365 Happy Teacher’s Day – From Teachers to Facilitators of Learning
A November Sunday was the Novel I wrote… around 56 thousand words… completely written in a moving train as part of my daily commute to San Francisco in 30 days in a November in 2011. Not sure if I should call it a Novella instead of a Novel Every year folks come together to write a novel in November. The National Novel Writing Month NANOWRIMO. … Continue reading 73/365 Ten Years back I wrote a Novel
I read carl Honore’s ‘In Praise of slowness’ sometime in 2011. I read that after I heard one of his TED talks. I can’t say I have consciously practiced that. But years later when I look back, there are elements of me that has had an interesting pace. Last one and a half year a lot in the physical world for me became slow, may … Continue reading 72/365 The slow pace of life
I am a big fan of 30 day challenges. Doing something for 30 days. This can be anything from exercising or walking to cooking or blogging. Anything you can imagine and you can put that into a 30 day challenge format. Yesterday I was reflecting on all those 30 DC that I have done. I believe I started this activity somewhere in 2009 when there … Continue reading 71/365 30 Day Challenges
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