3 surefire ways to get rid of them once and for all — I’ve got a love-hate relationship with elevators. I live in a country where skyscrapers are a norm — I have switched from a 58th-floor apartment to a 60th-floor one in the past, and currently reside in a “low” 11th floor apartment. My workplace is on the 62nd floor of a…

The question is — what are you going to do about it? — “You must have a passion outside of work.” “Your work or your job shouldn’t define who you are.” “Work-life balance is key to success.” “Your job should just be a means to an end.” These and an endless number of variations of this type of advice are almost fashionable. Yet…

The most common welcome a girl child in India gets — Anita, a bright Indian woman has just given birth to her second child. It’s a beautiful little daughter — and she’s delighted after a painful natural delivery. Like all Indian mothers, the gender of the child was a surprise to her — but she’s ecstatic that her 4-year-old daughter, Amaira…

While setting them up for inevitable failure — I recall reading an article on Medium from one of the few writers I actually find giving reasonable money advice. Rocco Pendola wrote about folks who make obscene amounts of money ($300k a year in this case) and yet complain it’s not enough. He also goes on to talk about…

She asked me on our first chat on a dating app — I hadn’t been active on the app for very long, I wasn’t quite looking to be in a relationship. It didn’t help that I never looked good in a picture, so getting enough right swipes was always a challenge. …

Centuries of hard-wiring of the human brain are hard to undo — I was catching up with a dear friend the other day. I am in Hong Kong, she is in New York — so the distance and time difference makes it hard to stay in touch. “So, how’s it going between you and Michael? Wedding bells soon?” I inquired eagerly about…

A sure shot way to overcome life’s swings of fortune — The green felt of the poker table looked like a harmless and equal playing field. But “equal” was as far from the truth as could be. Across me was a poker pro who had been playing poker at the highest level for the past 8 years. …

So, all everyone saw was the slap? — I had two close friends growing up. Let’s call one John and the other Anita. John was a prankster. He’d be the one putting gum on the teacher’s chair, and a fake lizard on the wall next to the blackboard in class. …

The never-ending debate and two sides of the coin — I realized this past weekend that my cousin is quite a fan of motorsports. I was over at his place when he had the Euro Sports channel on for the entire duration, watching a Moto GP and switching between the sequence of Formula 3, 2 and 1 races. I recall…