A few days back, in an attempt to reduce the number of times I reach out to the mobile phone involuntarily, I set up a timer for the screen time of WhatsApp. For now, it is working. Most of us have enough anecdotal stories of our attempts to reduce the infinite scrolling and browsing, with…
This is triggered by @manuscrypt’s interesting piece on Efficient Existence. ‘Quantified self’ was one of the jargons (that went mainstream later) in marketing in the late 2000s, ever since Nike’s running shoes became apparently intelligent. (Apparently Intelligent can also be called AI.) Since then wearables became a common term and measuring every aspect of existence…
(First Published in ThriveGlobal) ‘Fearlessness’ is often a quality highly acknowledged and celebrated. Even if one is not, it is a quality that is projected or sometimes granted by people. But, personally for me, I have to admit I have largely been a fearful person. Such candid admission might not well augur for my outward…