Thanks Surya for your kind words and even more so for your astute comment. With regards to the "informing" characteristic, I proposed that a good decision should allow you to understand yourself more and also understand the world around you more. Let me try to illustrate this point with an…

“Your legacy is being written by yourself. Make the right decisions.”– Gary Vaynerchuk In the last two blogs (first one and second one), we have seen that “conscious” decision making is an important and urgent need for all of us, however, decision making is tricky due to the cognitive quirks…

Continuing from the previous blog where I established that “conscious” decision making is an important and urgent need for all of us, over the next several blogs, I intend to cover the following topics: Why decision making is tricky What makes a good decision Anatomy of decision making Internal (bottom-up)…

“We are our choices!” — Jean Paul Sartre Welcome to this week’s blog. Since this is the start of a new calendar year, as is wont, many tend to make resolutions and desire for a better life in the year ahead. However, many of us do falter in following through…

“It’s not where we stand but in what direction we are moving.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Welcome to this this week’s blog. Another year end post by yet another middle-aged person trying to spew out wisdom…. well, I do get this feeling as I begin to write this blog…

Welcome to this week’s blog. If not anything else, I hope that you find this blog easy to read. …

Welcome to this week’s blog. In this blog, I listed the books that I read in 2022, along with a quick contextual blurb against each book. It has been a great year of learning for me — mainly in deepening insights and these books have played a big role in…

“If you train your mind for running, everything else will be easy.” Amby Burfoot Welcome to this week’s blog. This blog is about how the quote from Amby Burfoot above materialized in my life. Given that most of us will soon be indulging in the annual ritual of “making resolutions”…

Welcome to this week’s blog where I talk about value of pacing yourself to maximize long term value. “To climb steep hills, requires slow pace at first.” — William Shakespeare In my mind anyone who ran a full marathon is a hero (not to say that one must run to…