Sep 15, 2022

September 15th - Social Media Rabbit hole

I have successfully wasted 1.5 hours browsing random af videos and reels on youtube.

I really struggle to figure out the power of these videos! What is it in them that allows us to just be so hooked to them?

I am increasingly feeling excess cringe and also annoyed at the type of content that is "designed to trend" on social media. The transitions, the background music, the clickbait everything.

Yet, I cannot stop watching.

I really need to regulate my content diet. Having gone off Instagram, I think I am realising the number of hours I have added back to my day and the amount of brain degradation I am hopefully preventing.

When i open my YouTube/ Instagram, I do not know how to ensure the kind of content I am presented is good, useful content.

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May 30, 2023

I was just complimented and I will cry

I am writing this blog post to commemorate what it meant to me to be publicly appreciated for my work. It made me feel absolutely awesome. It made me want to cry. It made me feel so grateful for being where I am in life at the moment. Thank you, Rachit, because I now know the impact of appreciation. It can lift you up so much

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Apr 9, 2023

9th April - career directions

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Feb 13, 2023

13th Feb

I am feeling very overwhelmed by my work. It seems like a never ending pit of tasks to do. No matter what i do to figure it out, it is still pending. More and more and more. I cannot seem to reach any conclusion. Perhaps this is because it is such menial, manual work. Perhaps because it is the extent of operationalizing everything. This is painful. But I know what I need to…

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Jan 30, 2023

28th Jan - facing the very real possibility of what I thought would be “impossible”

Maybe this is a lesson in never taking anything for granted. I’m not even sure why and how we’ve landed at this place, but we have. Questioning the foundation of something I never thought I’d need to question. Because this was the axiom upon which everything was built. But I guess, here we are. Time to wait and see what is to be said. Feels like the ball in your court. I’m…

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Jan 26, 2023

27th Jan 23 - Conversations with Appu

By age 27, all of us have become scarred by our experiences to some extent. I can see that most of us have done things that we regret, have reacted in ways that we shall not anymore, now that we are stronger, better wiser. Is part of growing up also just learning to make peace with past mistakes and past regrets? I was having a conversation with Appu today. To rant and to…

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