Dabbling with discomfortVishy KurugantiDecember 31, 20191 minsMaximizing pleasure doesn’t need practice. It’s hardwired into our system. Tolerating pain, however, is a different ball game. Notice how I swapped maximizing with tolerating. Maximizing pain fits…
Goodbye to Vitamin IVishy KurugantiDecember 26, 20192 minsEarlier this year I had written about unlocking a superpower, a post that tantalizingly starts with me ‘visualizing away’ a raging headache, a feat that sadly turns out to be a one-time wonder. If you…
Planes and trainsVishy KurugantiDecember 17, 20191 minsAn old school friend (M) gave the following reason for giving up meat : “One fine day I felt that I had eaten enough chicken for a lifetime. So I turned vegetarian.” My feelings towards planes and…
Underachiever’s ManifestoVishy KurugantiDecember 09, 20191 minsAs a tribute to this post’s theme, I’m just going to share excerpts of this not-so-famous 2006 book. As opposed to providing a commentary on what this topic means to me. For obvious reasons, it’s…
The tough boss frameworkVishy KurugantiDecember 08, 20191 minsWe’ve all had tough bosses in our careers. I don’t know about you but I’ve always enjoyed working with them. Just to be clear, folks like Larry Ellison, Steve Jobs, or fictional fashion editor Miranda…
Sardaron wali baat – apology to my Sikh friendsVishy KurugantiDecember 04, 20191 mins(Circa 2010, a weekday morning at work) We had just wrapped up a conference call with our colleagues in San Francisco. I pressed the hang-up button, turned to my team members and uttered “Kaisa yeh…
Quitting in the age of vapingVishy KurugantiJuly 18, 20194 minsIf vaping was a thing back in the early ’90’s, I seriously doubt I’d have quit smoking when I did. Not that it was easy. It took a year of umpteen failed attempts with quit streaks ranging from days…
Unlocking a superpowerVishy KurugantiMay 04, 20195 minsDecades ago, I went to bed with a raging headache. For the next 10 minutes, I performed a sequence somewhat like this – took my attention away from my forehead, imagined myself floating in the ether…
Mind is deeply blowingVishy KurugantiFebruary 16, 20196 mins[Title is a hat tip to the recent Bollywood masala flick where the character Simbba turns a perfectly legit American phrase into the endearingly Hinglish “mind is blowing”.] There’s much to say in…
A Sunday in JakartaVishy KurugantiApril 08, 20181 minsThe best part of spending a Sunday in Jakarta is their car-free zone on Sudirman Road. A nearly 8km stretch of Sudirman Road (General Sudirman was the first commander-in-chief of Indonesian Armed…
