tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87693330631784112422024-03-11T08:53:28.731+05:30Abnormal behavior.Guranteed.<a href="http://www.kartikeyadwivedi.com">Home</a> | <a href="http://technicalwriting.kartikeyadwivedi.com">Technical Writing Blog</a> | <a href="http://kartikshealthtips.blogspot.in/">Health and Wellbeing</a> | <a href="http://ourdoggycoco.blogspot.in/">For Dog Lovers</a> | <a href="http://philantrophy.kartikeyadwivedi.com/">Philanthropy</a> |Kartikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10816422595829692745noreply@blogger.comBlogger70125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769333063178411242.post-5670037139156437022021-05-23T15:08:00.003+05:302021-05-23T18:12:15.494+05:30Five years as a Red Hatter- the best job of my life! As I reflect upon and contemplate over my time spent here, I deemed it apt to share. This is my attempt at summarizing the top five experiences I've had and learnt from in these glorious and eventful years. I sincerely wish these resonate as much with you as they do with me. I also hope you enjoy reading this as much as I enjoyed writing it.1st April marked five fabulous and fantastic yearsKartikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10816422595829692745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769333063178411242.post-8512900932618236932021-03-31T14:44:00.005+05:302021-03-31T14:47:41.438+05:30Red Hatter Writes-Book key takeaway-Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in LessI work at, live and breathe Red Hat, it is the best job of my life. Reading, learning and sharing are my passions. I'm currently on a reading (well, listening) spree as I catch-up on my must read/ listen to books during those long walks in the woods I'm indulging in. I had the chance to listen to the audio book: Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Kartikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10816422595829692745noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769333063178411242.post-64587141649919692021-03-31T13:32:00.014+05:302021-03-31T14:21:46.325+05:30Red hatter writes: Book key takeaway-The upskilling initiative I work at, live and breathe Red Hat, it is the best job of my life. Reading, learning and sharing are my passions. On my current PTO, I had the chance to listen to the audio book: The Upskilling Imperative: 5 Ways to Make Learning Core to the Way We Work by Shelley Osborne.It talks about how in today's day and age, especially in IT, one needs to upskill themselves every five years to not become Kartikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10816422595829692745noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769333063178411242.post-38448655806794900992018-07-12T11:05:00.000+05:302018-07-12T12:34:01.777+05:30How I found my fourth gear
For a multitude of reasons, I have been living life in the fast lane for the past couple of years. Golly, I’d have to say from the time my mum met her maker, about 18 odd years back. It began with necessity, which turned into habit, which in turn, culminated into an obsession.
An obsession to keep improving, learning, growing; physically, spiritually, mentally, emotionally, academically, Kartikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10816422595829692745noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769333063178411242.post-81745780831945457682016-01-03T15:21:00.001+05:302016-01-03T16:00:44.858+05:30A Pinch to remember
T'was the day before Christmas. Packed like Sardines, I was
heading to my nutrition class at Dadar, Mumbai, in the famous Western Local
Train. The lifeline of Mumbaikars, yes. I remember wondering about how to
strike a personal conversation with my heavily cute and heavily pregnant
instructor about her marriage as marriage was on my mind too, and she was a
Marwadi wed into a non marwadi familyKartikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10816422595829692745noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769333063178411242.post-73364458870414337042015-09-16T02:03:00.001+05:302015-09-16T10:45:46.987+05:30It's a bugs lifeWhilst the Syrian refugees had faced and were continually facing conflict, I was facing an immeasurably smaller yet significant one myself with a wasp. Yes, a three inch insect had taken great affinity towards my room, and more importantly, my body.I am not too fond of insects. I have nothing against them, but, let's be honest, they outpopulate us by a mile; there are about 10 quintillion ( Kartikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10816422595829692745noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769333063178411242.post-62275534982711531762015-08-12T03:35:00.000+05:302015-08-12T03:35:27.229+05:30The last I saw of her- Part 1
I’ll be honest Chacha, she is living on borrowed time. You
can go in for another endoxan therapy, but in my professional opinion, it will
but prolong her misery.
When a friend, a Doctor, says that to your father while you’re
cowering at the edge of the room, half praying, half hoping for some good news,
all you feel is anger. Since the Doctor is your dad’s friend for the past 25
years, someoneKartikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10816422595829692745noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769333063178411242.post-78340347805741106822015-07-29T07:30:00.000+05:302015-07-29T07:30:04.127+05:30Seeking Help on Facebook- Interesting Experience
Recently, my ladybug’s Knee MRI and ensuing Doc consultation
resulted in her being recommended an Arthroscopic surgery. Since we’re
currently in Videsh, we decided to explore surgical- and other non surgical
options- at home, as this entailed crutches for 6 weeks post-op.
Now if we got this done in India, we would have a small
army- and a large army of well-wishers- and so were seeking some Kartikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10816422595829692745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769333063178411242.post-68428692050943509662015-04-25T23:38:00.001+05:302015-04-25T23:38:58.021+05:30Learnings of the week.With the advent of the internet, we have access to information like never before. Of course, most of it is useless, but then, it is the innate desire of a being to possess a modicum of such useless, erm, fact, if I may. You can use it to razzle-dazzle, strike up a conversation, or, like me, you're just interested in learning a little more about the world you live in.
This led me Kartikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10816422595829692745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769333063178411242.post-83610216807226464202015-04-19T14:45:00.000+05:302015-04-19T14:45:12.369+05:30Learnings of the week.
In an attempt to start writing-and regularly at that-again, I am beginning a learnings of the week blog post. I'm hopeful this doesn't turn into learning of the decade kinda blog post, coz that might be way too long.
I enjoy learning new things, and I'm glad that my day job helps me do just that. I'm a voracious reader and listener, and will jot down whatever random stuff I've learnt via Kartikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10816422595829692745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769333063178411242.post-46675565720739042922015-04-11T19:13:00.000+05:302015-04-11T19:16:36.698+05:30Becoming the best vs. Becoming good at something
Somehow, to me, he’s good with the Middle
Eastern political scenario does not sound as good as he’s an expert in the
Middle Eastern political scenario. Bite me, I’m human.
IIM and IIT degrees, and PHD’s, high flying
business school MBA’s impress me. But I’d be lying if entrepreneur’s succeeding
without the fancy academics too impress me.
Similarly, people may be experts at one
thing, Kartikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10816422595829692745noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769333063178411242.post-46208830233865618872015-04-11T17:50:00.000+05:302015-04-11T17:55:53.586+05:30Learnings of the weekIn an attempt to start writing-and regularly at that-again, I am beginning a learnings of the week blog post. I'm hopeful this doesn't turn into learning of the decade kinda blog post, coz that might be way too long.I enjoy learning new things, and I'm glad that my day job helps me do just that. I'm a voracious reader and listener, and will jot down whatever random stuff I've learnt via podcasts,Kartikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10816422595829692745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769333063178411242.post-39990044529484231062013-05-24T13:44:00.000+05:302013-05-24T13:44:02.437+05:30Is striving to be a winner worth it?
While travelling to Kasara to meet my lovely wife and strike
up a deal to co-author a couple of books on Yoga, I was listening to a podcast
from Freakonomics Co-author Steve Dubner on a very interesting topic.
Before I get into the topic, I want to tell you how
interested I was in it; interested enough to re-focus my tired mind which was
sleep deprived, and was dreading the two hour long, Kartikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10816422595829692745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769333063178411242.post-92054035913767273542013-03-01T09:42:00.000+05:302013-03-01T09:42:25.206+05:30What I learnt at paintball
I’ve recently completed an eventful and interesting year of holy
matrimony with a certain Mrs. Himani Baid Dwivedi on the 26th of
February.
Please leave your best wishes in the comments section.
Entitled to my opinion alert!
Many people asked what our plans were for the “special day”. I cringe
when people say that. What’s so special about a tiresome-physical and
financial- day Kartikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10816422595829692745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769333063178411242.post-4784334523163667832013-02-18T14:34:00.000+05:302013-02-19T14:48:25.684+05:30My first exposure to innovation- Bicycle Knife sharpeners Back in my childhood, when the world was full of exciting possibilities, and there were wondrous sights everywhere, I remember my first tryst with Innovation.
My mum was really high on knives; we had many of them for slicing, dicing, chopping and the like. With her serving us delicacies with every meal, the knifes had a busy time. But like everything else around my mum, even the knives were Kartikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10816422595829692745noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769333063178411242.post-83040741434377565592013-01-08T00:22:00.000+05:302013-01-08T00:22:15.284+05:30Of Haircuts and the like.
I’m a man. Yes, I am. If you ignore my effeminate features
and take my word for it, that is. Apart from being the stupider of the two (should
I say three to be politically correct? Okay, 4, the 4th gender is
for politicians- they’re neither of the three, but a cross between pond scum
and cigarette ash) genders, I am also a non- metro sexual male. I’d like to be
one, yes. But Kartikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10816422595829692745noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769333063178411242.post-57392506409465259342012-08-26T23:06:00.004+05:302012-08-26T23:10:21.694+05:30Six lovely months, hoping for 60 lifetimes more.
Dearest Himani,
I wish you a very happy Six
monthaversary! For me, it’s surreal! We have survived with each other for six
months, and I count that as an achievement! It’s your achievement. All loved
ones know I don’t like people a lot. I have a very short attention span, and
spending an hour with them makes me want to kill myself thrice. But with you, I
have lived for six glorious months, and Kartikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10816422595829692745noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769333063178411242.post-75030347262186753612012-08-14T11:14:00.001+05:302012-08-14T11:14:35.011+05:30The nine mistakes of my life.The nine mistakes of my life
1. When piss drunk, you shouldn't try and jive with your best guy friend near a broken window. You tend to get painful stitches that way.
Also, You should most definitely not tickle the doc who is trying stitch those gashes. Oh, and yes, you should opt for anesthesia.
2. Trying to perform a long jump between two very wet walls of the gutter on holi is a very fool Kartikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10816422595829692745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769333063178411242.post-20349927514213563752012-05-15T15:52:00.000+05:302012-05-16T12:36:53.966+05:30The Fitness Racket- Part 4- Time Management and Tips
This post is the
continuation of the three posts on the fitness racket. Post 1 explains the
Fitness racket we play on ourselves, post 2 explains the mind over mind technique, while post 3 talks about prioritization. This post deals with Time
Management. While all posts can be read independently, reading the whole series
will be worth your while.
Time
Management
We’ve
read about it. We Kartikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10816422595829692745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769333063178411242.post-81757120972684625942012-05-10T16:51:00.000+05:302012-05-10T16:51:04.556+05:30The Fitness Racket Exposed Part 3- Prioritization
This post is the continuation of the two posts,
the first one in which I discussed what the fitness
racket is, how we run this racket, and on ourselves. It went on to discuss
the foundation steps to start off with to understand, expose and finish this
racket for long term physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health
and well-being.
The second post spoke about the mind
over mind Kartikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10816422595829692745noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769333063178411242.post-30999424163314966992012-05-04T14:18:00.005+05:302012-05-04T14:18:30.616+05:30New blog- Doggie Lovers Central!
Bike enthusiasts fall in many categories. Some Bike lovers like to ogle at the latest mean machines, and talk about their tech specs, and attend expos. Others seek thrill in riding those bad babies to their hilts.
Similarly, Dog lovers and their ilk too differ. Some people proclaim their love of Dogs if and when they meet them. There are also some who keep them as pets; as guards, as Kartikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10816422595829692745noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769333063178411242.post-69333123744262362302012-05-02T18:23:00.000+05:302012-05-10T15:49:25.548+05:30The Fitness Racket exposed- Part Two
This post is the continuation of the first post where I discussed what
the fitness racket it, how we run this racket, and on ourselves. It went on to
discuss the foundation steps to start off with to understand, expose and finish
this racket for long term physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health and well-being.
The racket I am talking about is
not run by poorly educated Kartikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10816422595829692745noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769333063178411242.post-78444379047150475622012-04-25T15:43:00.003+05:302012-05-10T17:16:38.272+05:30The Fitness racket exposed!Part 1
I've been in the fitness racket for a long time to know
about how they work. And mind you, I am using the writer’s artistic license to
make this article more interesting than it is! This racket, this scam, is the
one we play out with ourselves, our minds.
Yes, we are no lesser racketeers than our glorified and
political bigwigs. It is just that their shenanigans affect a major chunk of
Kartikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10816422595829692745noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769333063178411242.post-31940473593120797682011-09-19T18:00:00.002+05:302011-09-19T18:19:14.763+05:30Manning Modern Retail Conference InsightsI am now working with a cool new company, Criti Inc, and am very excited with the kind of work I am getting to do here; Business Development, encompassing Lead Generation, Sales, Marketing, Social Media Marketing, Marketing Research, SEO and Analytics!For a little heads up, Criti is head-quartered in Falls Church Virginia and is a part of the large technology group called Creative Information Kartikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10816422595829692745noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769333063178411242.post-14079976071146141592011-08-25T17:37:00.001+05:302011-08-25T17:37:01.574+05:30My take on Desire
Photo credit-Idea Go @ www.freedigitalphotos.net
Why does a child sob uncontrollably when denied a candy? What causes a lady to skip a heartbeat on looking at fashion magazines, or makes a man drool over the flavour of the month heroine’s photo-shoot? To put it plainly, it is because of the emotion called desire.
Desire is the root cause of all evil, is a common saying. It may well be partKartikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10816422595829692745noreply@blogger.com2