On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 3:44 PM Jo Pattabiraman <[email protected]> wrote:
> This is great! > > On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 11:23 AM Venkatesh Hariharan via Silklist < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> My biggest to-dont's are: >> >> so I have allocated "time quotas" for them where I spend say 30 minutes >> with them .. >> > > I can visualise the timer going off - “Oh, sorry, Radhakrishnan, your > time’s up! Shouldn’t have wasted so much of your allocation on your > haemorrhoids, eh? Must rush to my next!” > Exactly. I usually tell people that I am meeting for the first time, exactly how much time we have together. How they use that time tells me a lot about them, and whether they get a second time slot. All this probably sounds extremely snooty, but I think time is the only real currency we have and money is a derivative of time + skill + inclination. While money comes and goes, time only goes. Therefore it is extremely important to use it well. > But seriously, my to-don’Ts are - don’t watch TV or Bollywood. Don’t read > the newspaper. And now that I’ve muted the words “Elon Musk” and “Trump” on > Twitter, I am blissful and oblivious in my bubble, my feed entirely devoted > to dogs and other cute animals. And some kpop. > > Same here. I gave up on TV but I prefer to read my news calmly through newspapers. I find myself enjoying long form interviews and podcasts. This insightful interview of Julia Iofee on Ukraine, Russia and Vladimir Putin is a case in point. Venky
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