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New Unification Theory - Zoom and Netflix

May 2020 - Week 3 of The year of the Epidemic Didn’t get a chance to send Week 3 Virtual State of the Mind Zoom Bar invite for this week ahead of time.. We can have one next week.   By now, we all have been in each other’s living rooms, kitchens… and seen the Louvre artworks combined with colorful crayon paintings by our young artists on each other’s walls, and some of you being shy, are hiding with zoom backgrounds showing golden gate bridge. I can tell you, all of us have seen many ceilings and our colleagues heads in closeup in the past 2 weeks. Our spouses are also getting to know our other avatar … and questioning their judgement from many years ago (I can tell my wife is)!   Week 1 felt awkward and virtual and hoped that this will end soon… week 2, this virtual became real! No longer shy, I got more confident in watching myself on the zoom screen, by turning on video and seeing more of my colleagues do it; and now in week 3, I am questioning why I wasted all that time dr...
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Paradox of Happiness

Distributed Team Work, the new term (not remote work or work from home) Is the new norm and, infrastructure issues notwithstanding, teams have become lot more productive. CFOs must be seriously pondering on moving towards this distributed teams globally, saving on office space and travel!  I suspect most companies are experiencing this productivity gain, resulting in higher profit margins reflected in earnings through coming quarters, augmented with the $2T dollars printed by US Fed … stocks will certainly go up. This is my optimistic view …   Optimism makes us happy … and what is happiness … as you guessed, it is the 'state of the mind'!   The responses for my last post ranged from 'what is this' to 'please keep sending me this useless information.. Didn't know you can write useless things too’. Abraham Flexner, who founded the institute of Advanced Study in Princeton, that housed folks such as Einstein, Godel, in 1939, wrote a paper on Usefulness of Useless in...
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Uisce Beatha - Water of Life

Since we are all experiencing the new phase of our work-life balance, and the lack of hallway chit-chat - I pondered about sharing the state of the mind. My colleagues near my office, generally experience my mindful monologues with rapt attention (so I think) … but likely suffer through, waiting for it to end, while others quietly slip on their noise cancelling Boses, I thought I should extend this courtesy to now a broader audience. Notwithstanding the perpetuation of the gloom, I decided to share the state of the mind … so here we go … on Famine, War and Plague - the 3 things that homo sapiens to modern humans dealt with. Famine got eradicated through inventions in agriculture over the past 100 years. If famine is caused now, it is mainly due to political reasons. Generally at $0.99 a day one can get bananas and eggs that gives the necessary calories. War - this seems to have been solved as well - as everybody dies in the next war… so no one starts it Plague...
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Signed by Kushim

Uruk, Sumer 5000 BC 4th Month My name is Kushim … mine is the first recorded name in human history! There was no other name that can be found as we evolved as homo sapiens. I lived in Sumer … (this was 7,000 years ago from today). While I always thought we are special and somehow a God created us, it turns out our ancestors are chimpanzees, guerillas, orangutans … and about 10 million years ago, our great grand mother, chimpanzee, had 2 daughters - one became our great grandmother, while the other continued as chimpanzee. 2 million years ago, just as elephants, giraffes and other herds of animals flocked around in the savannahs of Africa, humans also moved around in their herd and were bottom of the food chain. Through evolution, bigger humans disappeared, as bigger ones needed more food and the natural evolution resulted in the current human size.  As homo sapiens evolved, from four legged to two legged homo erectus, we started making use of the other two limbs -...
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