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A Day of Learnings

 I was in the train and was about to reach Hyderabad. The train got stuck in the outer signal. Mechanically I was thumbing through the newsfeed on my mobile, when this item caught my attention:  Why does Google offer free meals to employees? Sundar Pichai says it's not just a perk https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/trends/why-does-google-offer-free-meals-to-employees-sundar-pichai-says-its-not-just-a-perk-12843925.html I fondly recollected the kind of influence our lunch facility had on the psyche of the employees of my company. It was a welcome break from the work at the table. A great opportunity to interact and network with folks across functions, listen, question and understand their issues, and also to present our own issues all informally, without any PPTs or notebooks. 😊 In addition, there were a number of wise people who had in depth knowledge of many current issues, technologies and the general discussions were quite fulfilling. One great thing about our company was t...
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I thought she was Mother Cauvery, but she looks more like "Cauvery problem" now......Sigh!

"ಜಾಣ ಜಾಣರಿಗೆ ಮೂರು ದಾರಿ  ಜಾಣ ಕೋಣರಿಗೆ ಎರಡು ದಾರಿ ಕೋಣ ಕೋಣರಿಗೆ ಒಂದೇ ದಾರಿ"  So goes one of the old sayings in Kannada. A rough translation: Three paths for two wise men, Two for a wise man and a fool, Only one for two fools. The story is that there was a stretch of very narrow  path which could accommodate only one at a time. When two wise men came to it from opposite sides, each thought of avoiding a conflict and took parallel paths on either side of it at short distances. So, effectively there were three paths available for the pair. When a wise man and a fool encountered the same situation, the wise man wanted to avoid a conflict, and hence took a parallel path, and the fool smugly went on the narrow stretch, thus there were two paths available for the pair.  When two fools encountered the same situation, both continued in the narrow stretch, came face to face, argued for a long time, and ended up fighting and getting injured, thus ending up with only one path - that of...
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Remembering Periodic Table with Memory Palace (Inspired by Nelson Delis)

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  1.        I had constructed a memory palace of fifty-five items based on the house of one of my aunts. For constructing this, I used the method suggested by Nelson Delis in his YouTube video: https://youtu.be/E1x9IaMTpyw (The most crucial element for simplification: Each location to have only 5 items)   2.        Then I watched another video of Nelson about memorizing periodic table: https://youtu.be/-UMzQ5yQDko   3.        Initially, I attempted to remember the first fifty-five elements as I had firmly established the memory palace with fifty-five items. 4.        This I did it with only a mobile in hand, while travelling between Syracuse and Albany. It took me about an hour and a half. 5.        I did a mnemonic in each place reminding me of each element, in the same order as periodic table. Then I rehearsed it ...
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