Moving Day

By -
Moving Day is here, folks!


Personally speaking, I hate moving. It comes with so many ifs and buts that noone warns you about.

Like, what do you do with that bag of plastic covers you have been collecting for the last 100 years. You cannot just throw them away.

What about all those free guide maps and train tickets you collected on your Eurotrip? Surely, you will get around to making that scrapbook out of that some day?

And that jar of olives. There are probably insects which have made that their home. Can we just uproot them like that?

Noone tells you that you will be adding to chemical pollution when you throw all those expired medicines away. 

And noone warns you that bubble wrap from the Amazon package which you got 720 days ago is not going to be used for "protective packaging" ever.

That old mobile phone charger whose mobile has gone awol long back? What do you with that? Throw it away?

And that digicam. How will you tell the digicam, that it's not cool any more? You moved on to *shudder*, a DSLR.

But the worst effect of moving has got to be Address Change. There is a begging need for a handbook on how to get address changed for the million places where we give our address - phone 1, phone 2, Tata Sky, Internet, Gas, Passport, Aadhar, Bank 1, bank 2, Bank 3, Bank 4 where we go only once an year, Harvard Business Review subscription which we never read, electricity, grocery delivery, blah blah and blah.

In short, moving is hard.

And that's why, this move took so long. No. Moving houses was still ok.

Moving from Blogger to Wordpress. That's the real hard one.

And no good day as birthday to do this. So yep, we are moving to a new address.

Please please please change your subscriptions to the new one.

We are called Preekonomy. And you can find us at www.preekonomy.wordpress.com


See you there! :)

 Image courtesy: Friends

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The Subtle Art of Breaking News

By -
There was a man called Bob. He had a brother who was a bit of a moron.  Once, Bob was leaving for a long-awaited vacation for two weeks and asked his moron brother to take care of his cat, while he was gone. A week into the vacation, Bob calls his brother to check in. After the preliminary talk, he asks how the cat is doing.
His brother replies, "Oh yeah, about that. The cat died yesterday."
Bob was devastated. And also furious. He said to his brother, "How insensitive are you? Couldn't you have broken the news more gently, so I could be prepared?"
The moron brother is confused and asks for an example how the news should be broken.
So Bob explains, "On the first call, you should have said, your cat climbed up the roof, it's unable to come down. On the second call, you could say, the firemen are here, they are trying their best. On the third call, you say, we are all trying hard, but she's not coming and not eating either. On the final call, you say, I a…
Read more

Rare Talents

By -
So what's the verdict? The one skill that will change our lives in the next few years? Artificial Intelligence? Big Data? Behavioural Science (Shameless plug for my subject)? Blockchain? Cryptocurrency?

I will go out on a limb here and proclaim this - the biggest winner will be the one who learns to listen. That's it. That's the skill that will be the biggest leverage.

Here's my hypothesis. 

Our lives are dominated by screens. From when we wake up, till when the day ends. Screens on phones. Screens on TV. Screens on Laptops. We are hooked to the colors and the movement. But here's the thing. Screens are one-sided communication. Screens don't need input. Screens don't care what you are doing. So, you can be watching a video on YouTube, while posting a comment on a Friend's photo on Facebook. The screen will not feel bad. Or be hurt. It's just the background.

The problem is, our kids are growing up with screens. They probably don't know of a time or a…
Read more

Don't Read This

By -
Don't read this post.
Please. It's not meant for you.
Why are you still reading?
Because you don't like being told what to do, do you?
You, independence-loving, autonomy-addicted, you.
Some call it Reverse Psychology. Some call it just the good old plain logic.
Many years ago, the King of Prussia, Fredrick the Great, also known as Fritz, heard about a new root called Potato. Enamoured by it's nutritional value, he decided that his subjects need to start including potato in their staple diet.
Grand announcements were planned. Drummers would walk across town, singing paeans of the benefits of eating this potato. Cooks would publicly demonstrate recipes with potatoes. I would go out on a limb and say, French Fries was not one of those recipes, because what happened next would just not justify it. 
The public rejected potatoes. That's right. Rejected.
Hard as it may sound, the people didn't want to be told what to do. So, they did not take to potatoes.
Old Fritz was surprise…
Read more