And then watch how they come to watch you burn — CAN YOU READ MINDS? Reading minds is easier than you think. Perhaps you’ve never thought of it, but you read other people’s minds, and they read your mind daily. How do we do it? We do it automatically through attitude appraisals. Remember the song “You Don’t Need to Know the…

As soon as I made it a habit, it became easier — I've always watched movies with powerful storylines that I could enjoy and make notes of the movie's arcs, plots and characters. Then I came across the concept of time loop movies. These movies are the type where one or more characters live the same day over and over. Sometimes the…

Twenty Thousand doses — Hermann Göring amassed so much power and political clout in the Nazi state that he was appointed commander-in-chief of the Luftwaffe (air force) — Germany’s second most powerful man. Hitler later had the following to say about Göring: I liked him. I made him the head of my SA. He…

He was writing something I dreamt of this gentleman who wrote about our society and government in February 1776. In my dream, I could not see all the words on the paper, but they were as vivid as if I had written them myself. The following morning I jumped out…

And now has a lot to offer — The past has gone, and the future is still to come, so the present — the here and now — is all we have. This ability to live fully in the now elude most people. When you eating your appetizer, enjoy it. Eat your appetizer slowly and deliberately. Don’t be…

It is one of those simple tricks in life — I suffered from a condition where I could not make decisions quickly enough to maintain forward momentum in my life. In my line of work, it is called analysis paralysis. Good software engineers have analytical minds and should spend a lot of time analysing problems. If you analyse problems using…

The end is neighing, or is it? — I wrote an article on March 11 this year. I called Robert McFaul the American version of Baghdad Bob in that article after reading the one-sided drivel on his Twitter account. McFaul was the American Ambassador from 2012 to 2014 in Moscow. …

A simple framework for success — From a young age, I always tried to find myself in the company of older people. I made sure I was in their company on their invitation. One such gentleman was Mr Foster, our neighbour and my Dad’s lifelong friend. A wise man indeed. Sometimes he would pull us into…

Round two is Taiwan vs China — In October 2006, a US Naval Super Carrier Group led by the thousand-foot USS Kitty Hawk was confidently sailing through the East China Sea between southern Japan and Taiwan, minding everyone’s business, when, without warning, a Chinese navy submarine surfaced in the middle of the group. An American aircraft carrier…