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Can you survive on 5 tabs?

Vishy KurugantiDecember 22, 20192 mins

Years ago I took a course on Effective Time Management. There were quite a few productivity hacks that I adopted (some permanently). However, his most controversial hack was to declare war on post-its…

The imperfect vegan

Vishy KurugantiDecember 20, 20191 mins

When I turned vegan ~6 years ago, my conformance was slightly less than 100% initially. This was largely to keep domestic peace without compromising the core principle. For example, Palak paneer, a…

Planes and trains

Vishy KurugantiDecember 17, 20191 mins

An 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…

The Prescription I Ignored: My Pranayama Journey to Asthma Freedom

Vishy KurugantiDecember 15, 20194 mins

I get all evangelical when I hear about a friend or acquaintance suffering from asthma, even more so when it’s a sportsperson. Evangelical as in “if I can escape its clutches after decades of…

A runner takes a walk

Vishy KurugantiDecember 11, 20191 mins

A rare Monday morning when I woke up at 430am. Rare because the alarm was set for 630am. Mondays are rest days (runner speak) or normal days (regular speak). This kind of inexplicable thing happens…

Underachiever’s Manifesto

Vishy KurugantiDecember 09, 20191 mins

As 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 framework

Vishy KurugantiDecember 08, 20191 mins

We’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 friends

Vishy 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…

Barefooting in the snobbish sports

Vishy KurugantiDecember 03, 20193 mins

Golf and squash are uppity sports played by ‘gentlemen’. I say this despite being a squash aficionado. There’s one difference though. In one of the sports, you are guaranteed to sweat.. even if you…

When a tweet triggered a hormesis habit change

Vishy KurugantiDecember 02, 20192 mins

My friend Mekin tweeted something interesting in Jan 2009. One of those things that makes you go “hmm.. surely I can give that a try!” For someone perpetually teetering on the edge of catching a cold…

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