• Is AI taking away jobs?

    Is AI taking away jobs?

    If you are looking for a binary answer, I would say no. But it is not so simple. There are so many factors and follow-up questions that need to be answered. Let’s try to understand it in a little more detail. What is AI in this time? AI now is nothing but another worldwide technological

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  • Opportunities

    Opportunities

    வாய்புகள் அமையாது!நாம் தான் அமைத்துக்கொள்ள வேண்டும்! (Opportunities do not happen! We should only set them up!) – Kochadaiyaan, Thalivar Rajinikanth Contradictory to “Opportunity will knock your door only once”? How about making the opportunity knock your door at your will? Sounds ridiculous? Let me break it down. Direction of effort Do you really want to wait

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  • Never Give Up!

    Never Give Up!

    Endurance – the ability to withstand hardship or adversity – always seems impossible until you have no other choice. Before you even realize, the situation is already out of control and all you can do is find a way to get through it. At that time, worrying about how you ended up there is only

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  • The Other Side of the Coin

    The Other Side of the Coin

    I know it has been SIX months since the last time. A lot has transpired since then. I will try my best to capture some of the experiences in the coming weeks. For now, here’s what I started back then and left midway. Every coin has two sides. Every sheet of paper has two pages.

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  • The Spring

    The Spring

    It’s been a while since we compared life to The Coaster. Let’s take another thing we all have almost definitely seen – The Spring. Not the season, the mechanical object (of course! 😝). Being an engineer, that too from Chennai, the season is not the first thing that comes to mind. All we know is

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  • It’s all in the mind

    It’s all in the mind

    மனசு இருந்தா மார்கபந்து . . . மார்கம் உண்டு . Vasool Raja, M.B.B.S. Think about your body. The brain is the data store. The heart is the power station. But the mind is a uniquely designed illusion that includes all the non-physical aspects of our body – imagination, perception, satisfaction – you get it. That said,

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  • Cook at Home or Eat Outside

    Cook at Home or Eat Outside

    Being a grad student and a bachelor, we encounter one important existential question every day, sometimes multiple times a day – should I cook at home or go to a restaurant? How many ever times this gets answered, it is always just as hard as it was the previous time. Let’s dive into the recipe

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  • Nothing comes for free!

    Nothing comes for free!

    Consider you want to decorate your house. You want to add a painting to one of the walls. You have some basic painting skills that you picked up when you were younger. So, you decide to give it a try before buying something online. You dust off that old painting kit and spend an entire

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  • Newton’s Laws of Motion

    Newton’s Laws of Motion

    Physics Class-ah!?! Oh! No No! Don’t worry! This will be deeper than simple Physics. We will look at the laws, but apply them to life instead. 😝 The Law of Inertia Every body continues to be in its state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line unless compelled by some external force

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  • Jack of all trades

    Jack of all trades

    That famous phrase is often followed by “master of none”! So, is it a boon or a bane? I would say… it depends! Depends on the trades itself, depends on how you look at it, and more importantly, depends on how good you are at choosing the right trade. How about “Master of (Jack of

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  • The Ride of a Lifetime

    The Ride of a Lifetime

    Lessons Learned From 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Companyby Bob Iger After more than a decade of strong belief that reading books was not for me, I discovered non-fiction. Amazon randomly delivered a book to my place and asked me keep it, donate it, or trash it. Surprisingly, it was about Artificial

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  • Global Entry Program

    Global Entry Program

    A super useful program that I wish I had known about earlier. Ever since I found out, I have been encouraging everyone to apply. Writing about the complete experience will hopefully motivate more people to enroll and benefit from it. DISCLAIMER: This is based on my personal experience in 2022 and is mostly relevant for

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  • The Road Not Taken

    The Road Not Taken

    Two roads diverged in a wood, and I —I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference. The Road Not Taken, 1915, Robert Frost If you carefully look at your day, you’ll notice that there are 100s and 1000s of decisions we make. Starting from snoozing vs waking up until போத்திண்டு

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  • The Coaster

    The Coaster

    You’ve probably heard life being compared with a roller coaster ride. You go up, then come down, twist and turn unexpectedly, sometimes even do a backflip (andhar balti, if that’s relatable). Same with life, right? Okay, I can hear you say “புதுசா எதாவது சொல்லு டா” (“tell us something new da!”). Stay with me, let’s break

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