Sorry, hit send too soon without including the link to the Ioffee interview. Here is the absconding link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEu0oRajJxE On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 7:54 PM Venkatesh Hariharan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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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