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Philosophy

Philosophy

This blog series tries to ask questions again and again till the dynamic and unique understanding emerges

  • The Double Bind: When Work Stops Being Familiar and Weekends Aren’t Enough

    the right side, show a chaotic, colorful landscape of weekend misadventures—skydiving, weird social media reels, and spontaneous travel—symbolizing 'novelty' and 'adventure zone'. In the center, a person is being pulled in both directions, looking confused and anxious. Above them, a storm cloud labeled 'AI Disruption' looms, raining down icons of AI, layoffs, and upskilling books. A manager figure stands nearby, looking insecure and powerless, holding a broken compass. The whole scene should feel ironic and emotionally charged, capturing the modern dilemma of seeking both stability and thrill in a rapidly changing world.

    The post explores the duality of human experience between stability and adventure in contemporary life. While routine offers comfort, weekend escapades often lead to increasingly extreme activities as a response to work-induced monotony and change. This paradox highlights the struggle for balance in an uncertain world where neither work nor leisure truly satisfies. Read More

  • The Hidden Gift of Being Stuck

    Hidden gift of being stuck. Escape velocity builds up as a side effect

    I’ve been thinking about being stuck. Not the dramatic kind of stuck – not prison bars or iron chains – but the subtle, comfortable kind. The job that’s “good enough.” The relationship that’s “fine.” The daily routine that works but doesn’t sing. We all know these states. They’re not terrible, they’re just… suboptimal. For years, Read More

  • GANESH FESTIVAL: Solipsism to Solitude to Solicitude

    We often navigate our lives through two distinct modes: observation and immersion. Observation is the act of experiencing; it is the witness, the Sakshi Bhava, that watches from a distance, analyzes, and learns. Immersion, on the other hand, is the experience itself. It is a state of complete engagement where the boundary between the self and the experience Read More

  • A critique on Restorative Justice

    I think restorative justice is subjective and the criminal traditional justice is somewhat objective, broadly speaking. I think that restorative justice forms a part of preventative tolerance. It’s the government’s tolerance that “allows” this restorative type of justice its place. Governement chooses to create a space for dialogue, healing, and mutual resolution before, or sometimes Read More

  • Exploration and Exploitation

    There’s very famous exploration exploitation dilemma, wherein the crucial challenge is to strike a balance between the two. I don’t think there’s a dilemma in the first place. Both are totally independent. Both are noble. One doesn’t affect the other in anyway. In fact, both complement each other. Let me explain. Let us first think Read More

  • Feedback

    Much has been talked about the importance of giving and seeking feedback within the team and from outside the team. There’s no denying that. But what is feedback? Feedback means the gap between expected output and actual output. In controlsystems or in machinelearning, the expected output is accurately predictable whereas the actual output is accurately measurable. And because of this, feedback adds a Read More

  • Necklace

    Poet Saint Kabir says: अंजन वाणी, अंजन वेद, अंजन किया नाना भेद,अंजन विद्या, पाठ-पुराण, अंजन घोकतकत हि ग्यान रे ॥अंजन पाती, अंजन देव, अंजन की करे, अंजन सेव,अंजन नाचै, अंजन गावै, अंजन भेद अनंत दिखावै रे ॥राम निरंजन न्यारा रे, अंजन सकल पसारा रे ! Anjan means Maya, the illusion. Whereas Niranjan means Absolute Reality. Dictionary says, a Read More

  • Freedom

    What does the freedom mean? Generally what comes in my mind is that one has the power of choice and unlimited options at any given moment. In this case, one has to achieve that state where no law can operate on him. In fact he himself becomes the law! Think for a moment, a drop Read More

  • Let Love and Sanity Prevail!

    Wishing all of you a very #happy #2023!Let #Love and #Sanity Prevail! All the quotes are not by me. They have been said by someone, sometime, somewhere. Read More

  • Winds of Change

    Football is like a wine. Wine gets sweeter as it gets older. Similarly football shines brighter with each passing year, with each passing era. The Football continues to evolve, to delight us, to surprise us, in so many ways. Read More

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  • Time

    Kalaya Tasmai Namaha! “Time is devourer of everything“. That means, time consumes everything. Yet, all the time, I indulge in “time-consuming” activities/rituals/habits to achieve all that really doesn’t matter. Always, I do something to “kill the time“! 😊 If I think carefully, for me, is not time the devourer of my illusions? A word Devour Read More

  • Deva Deepawali

    The period from Shayani Ekadashi, Guru Purnima to Prabodhini Ekadashi, Kartik Purnima, is called Chaturmas. In these 4 months, one is supposd to observe various vratas, penances, perform austerities and be on fast. In this blog, I am planning to share my views about these 4 months which end in Kartik Purnima, also known as Read More

  • Karma Yoga

    Everyone strives for control, in some way or the other, over someone or something. The feeling of having control over something is really great or seemingly ultimate. In Karma Yoga, one tries to control his deeds. He focuses on doing the things which are dutiful, morally correct. It means those are either compatible with scriptures Read More

  • Happy Diwali

    This is perhaps the greatest and biggest festival of India. There’s a striking chronology that resembles how a spiritual aspirant progresses through the stages. Like Ramayana, Ganesha birth story and Dhruva story, I plan to share what these Diwali days signify to me. Rama Ekadashi: The journey starts this day when a spiritual aspirant observes Read More

  • Metaverse

    We are witnessing a great technological advancements in the form of #mobile, #internet, #ai and now Metaverse! I really wonder how our mind is intrinsically inclined to find the unease or unrest so easily. If we are not able to find the unease, well, generate the unease. Make people feel uneasy, and moreover, if that is not enough, make Read More

  • Rejection Therapy

    There’s a clear survivorship bias in how we perceive success: we notice only those who emerged unscathed from a selection process or test, while the countless candidates who failed or were rejected—often better suited in many respects—fade into obscurity. This tendency makes “Rejection Therapy”—the deliberate practice of seeking out “no”s—a kind of built‑in fail‑fast strategy. By Read More

  • A Strategy which had no Goal

    The dictionary says #strategy means a plan of action or #policy designed to achieve a major or overall #aim. Another definition says, it is the art of devising or employing plans or stratagems toward a #goal. Essentially strategy has a goal. What if we remove the aim or goal and just stick with the plan of action or policy? In my Read More

  • Moments of Truth

    Heard about the 5 moments of truth? Moments are nothing but the opportunities to express love to the customer! This journey starts with stimulus, middles out in knowing and ends in an intimate emotional connect! Great organizations don’t make anything for the customer. They are made for the customer. The objective of Mindful CI is Read More

  • Curious Patience

    There’re words which I often tend to misconstrue the meaning of. For example: Forgiveness: I tend to think that in present moment, there’s nothing to forgive. Because we never carry past, instead always live in present. My friend Patrick explained to me that, Jesus said, “Forgive them for they not know what they do”. Jesus did Read More

  • Samskara

    There are vibrations. Those are independent. Adi Shankara calls these Soundarya Lahari (Divine Vibrations). These vibrations are sensed by my senses. These sense organs are formed as a result of my samskaras (my past). They are passed to the brain through nervous system, called neural network. As these sensations pass, a lot of activations (transformations) Read More

  • Accept and Reject

    When I start accepting the situation as it is without mixing it with my will (which is of course a reaction) to change it to suit my wants, I start to detach my Self from what is happening. Essentially because Self is independent and separate from all that is going on in my mind, within Read More

  • Waving Unwaveringly

    Truly, the joy of Being is unconditional or independent! I remembered poet saint Jnaneshwar who said in his work, Amrutanubhav : “The joy of being is like a waving flag on the battlefield which is not concerned about who is the victor and who is the loser. It just continues to wave with the joy Read More

  • Surrender

    Most of the blogs in this website talk about the importance of being present. When I am present, there’s no thought of past or future. I feel however, that in order to throw my past away, I have to seriously reflect on my past. Meditate on it. Be familiar with it. We say, forgive and Read More

  • पश्चात्ताप

    अहंकार कधी, कुठे आणि कशा पद्धतीने आपलं  डोकं वर काढतो ते मला खरंच कळत नाही. मला नेहमी असंच वाटतं की आपण किती योग्य वागतो. गोष्ट इथेच थांबत नाही, तर त्यापुढे जाऊन असंही वाटतं की बाकीचे सगळे कसे अयोग्य वागतात! काय गंमत आहे! मी यावर सिंहावलोकन करायचं ठरवलं. आणि माझ्या लक्षात आलं की मी यामुळे माझ्या Read More

  • Strengths and Weaknesses

    What are your strengths and weaknesses? It clearly has 2 answers. Honest and manipulative. These 2 are strengths in their own respect! If I answer it looking at the job description before, my answer would likely be manipulative. It might be possible that I am “filtering” my strengths and weaknesses to suit to the Job Read More

  • Data to Intelligence: Curiosity Forever!

    Like natural resources, technology, now the data is making countries powerful. It’s not that data was not there all the time. It only means, we discovered the true power of data, in shaping the world affairs! Data motivates an aspect of Curiosity within all of us. And in turn, Curiosity changes the form of Data! Read More

  • Divine Impermanence

    My ego feeds itself by perceiving a constant state of lack. It keeps telling me, “I need to be like this…For that I need to do something…”. Always. Incessantly. In short, my ego doesn’t let me be Still! This state of lack is full of my deluded understanding. About myself and about the world. Many Read More

  • River

    It is the river which brings the people together, gives them a purpose to live, a meaning to their living. A river, since ages, has been a silent witness to so many civilizations from Mesopotamia to India. On its way, she “accepts” everything right from creeks, waterfalls, the water from beneath the soil, rocks and Read More

  • Diversity Strengthens Unity

    Imagine there’s only music. The only thing that you know. Nothing else. Would you appreciate it unless you hear a song? A song is a manifestation of the music. Now imagine there are 2 songs. You appreciate music more. Because second song exposes some other aspect of the “Infinite” music. Continue to add more and Read More

  • Reality: Thy Name Is Paradox

    To be able to sing high notes, I have to practice singing low notes. To be able to grow taller, the root of the tree has to grow deeper. To appreciate outward beauty, I have look inward, inside me. To come to a state where I accept all views (all encompassing reality), I have to Read More

  • The Minimalist

    Global optimum! The optimization world is full of finding the minimum or minima. They prefer minimizing to maximizing the objective. Reason? A simple mathematical convenience! Also they say, it is comfortable and easy to negotiate with minima! We also find it convenient to negotiate with people having minimum ego. Isn’t it? There is the principle Read More

  • Uncertainty: Faith

    Last blog, we saw the nature of fear. Fear, although the root cause of all Evil, it clearly points me to the friend with higher power, and sooner or later I realise that friend called Faith! I know that unless I surrender, I will always be in the grip of delusion. My favourite delusion is Read More

  • Uncertainty: Fear

    If we carefully observe Uncertainty, we realise that we have only 2 ways to deal with it. Fear it. Or have Faith in it. By now, you might have observed from my blogs, that I have innumerable wonderments about our Fondness. Fondness with Success, with Categorising, with a Leader, with generalising views, etc. There is Read More

  • Decision-Making and Diversity

    “You understand nothing!”, “what experience you have in decision making?” , “it doesn’t work this way or that way”, “you need to be extremely knowledgeable to make decisions”, etc. The list is endless, literally! These are the responses an employee can easily get when he has a suggestion for management. Agree with it or not, Read More

  • I am Ocean in a Drop

    While I was reading a few things around chaos theory, I came across few interesting things which I would like to share with you. There are many aspects that this theory points to, like unpredictability, butterfly effect, etc. I was particularly fascinated by one crucial and universal aspect that it points to, and that is Read More

  • Trekking

    Today after so many years I got an opportunity ( I decided ) to do trekking. I climbed Sinhagad fort, the most famous fort in Pune! The purpose was just to enjoy the view and surrounding beauty at every step ( Be with the Moment ). We took close to 100 minutes to climb the Read More

  • Doubt!

    “If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you but make allowances for their doubts too”, says Rudyard Kipling. I did not understand the finer modulation of the phrase “make allowance for doubt”, when I first read it. I didn’t know that any doubt could be an opening to a great realisation! Arjuna had Read More

  • Superstitions

    In learning from data (experience), we build a model based on the sample we get. Now going by Bayesian Thinking, we continuously update our beliefs as we continue to get more and more evidence. Beliefs are flexible. They should be flexible. They need to change when we observe something that contradicts our existing belief (which Read More

  • Failure

    Many readers are likely to misinterpret the tone of my views in https://atomic-temporary-200527999.wpcomstaging.com considering me as an advocate of luck. I am not in favour of analysing success. I like to analyse (appreciate) the path instead. For example, many analyses, books study successful people, great companies. That is, they do P( Path | Success) type Read More

  • Law and Luck – 2

    In his blog, James very nicely articulates that in the long run, hard work clearly wins over the luck. That has to be true otherwise there would be no motivation whatsoever to do something. I would like to quote his line: As a general rule, the wilder the success, the more extreme and unlikely the Read More

  • Law and Luck – I

    I feel “Luck” is a form of Uncertainty. The completeness (Dattatreya) is the union of certainty (laws) and uncertainty (randomness). This element is all pervading. Given. And precisely for that reason, called as Datta. Scientists show us how laws operate in this Universe. Mystics show us the other side, call it miracles, synchronicity (Carl Jung), Read More

  • Goal

    In last blog, we went through tiny habits techniques by BJ Fogg. We can use these habits to achieve some goal. Now naturally we would ask, what should be our goal? We do know what we are good at, for sure. But we don’t know what we are really good at! We need to explore Read More

  • Tiny Habits : book review

    Chaos Theory. Butterfly Effect. If America sneezes India catches cold. Heard any of these? There’s one more, Small changes that change everything. The wonderful book by BJ Fogg, talks about the #tinyHabits. It is a well-researched book that has worked well for so many lives. Even if you develop #tinyNumber of them, that is enough Read More

  • Success

    Everyone likes the word Success. All have different ideas about what it means and how to measure it. I am not an exception. Yet I am surprised by this! Everyone has a tendency to quickly reduce anybody’s success story into essential qualities and associate them to Success. I am not an exception. Yet I am Read More

  • Leadership

    Leadership requires a corresponding time window for its assessment to be called successful. The same leadership skills fail miserably when time window changes. I think, there’s nothing called as Evolution of Leadership, or a Universal Leader. Leadership is no doubt continuous however it has its own cycle. Even lord Vishnu has to adopt drastically different Read More

  • Unlearn

    Records are made to be broken, says Terry Vaughn (I fear plagiarism!). A slight modification would be “New year resolutions are made to be unkept or unfulfilled!” Most often, we talk about “learning (something) from data”. However, there is also something called “unlearning (something) from data”. Let us try for a moment to replace the Read More