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Minimalism and the Corona Virus

Minimalism and the Corona Virus

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In the recent months, I happened to come across a lot on "Minimalism". A friend had written about how she gave away a lot of clothes and how she and her family live without a TV and a refrigerator. This means they also store very little at home and buy things as they need them. She emphasized how they are working towards a strong value system of being happy with minimal possessions. More interestingly, the Nehru Centre Library in Mumbai planned to hold an event - a book reading and discussion. The book is Cal Newport's "Digital Minimalism: On Living…
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What are your problems?

What are your problems?

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I recently attended a webinar titled "Sales Excellence for B2B Selling in Emerging Markets". The topic obviously sounds "Oh so commercial", but guess what? The audience were all from the social sector. Now why did we need such a webinar? It turns out that all of us are either creating products or offering services (or both). Only, what we do is for a social objective. The presenter of the webinar was Scott Roy from "Whitten & Roy Parthership" (USA) and he did a great job of tailoring his talk with the social sector in mind! The main message that he…
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The new PubMed is here! Learn something about it

The new PubMed is here! Learn something about it

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In mid November 2019, the National Library of Medicine, USA announced the launch of the new PubMed. They mentioned that the new one will become the "default" from Spring 2020 - which will be around the 19th of March, 2020. It is time for us to start getting used to the new PubMed - both the good and the not so good, about the new PubMed. Here are some points of learning: The site address The new PubMed is available at https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ . If you have bookmarked the old, one, you will get a message asking you to try the…
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