Category: Life & Times
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Good Enough – When Failure is an Option
If you have not been paying attention, you may have missed this. There is a shift away from the pursuit of perfection. The world is going with “good enough.” Perfection is dynamic Products and services have to evolve continually and adapt to the needs and wants of consumers. Many successful products of the decade, have…
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Don’t Walk Left – A Perspective on Homelessness
I could see her from a distance. For that matter, I wasn’t sure that it was a woman until she briefly lifted her head to tuck her straggly hair back behind her ear. She didn’t look a lot older than my daughter. She was bent over the garbage bin by the roadside. Looking for food,…
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Living the Dream – A Reality Check!
The patio of the Taj Malabar Hotel is quiet as I sit nursing a drink and working on an e-book for a client. I am in Kochi, a coastal city on the southwest coast of India, often referred to as the Queen of the Arabian Sea. I am living the dream! Travelling and working; mixing…
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Living in a Cannabis-Friendly Condominium
The email from the building management had an innocuous subject line. It read: Owner Survey. Typically, surveys are not my thing; but this one was different. The building management rarely sent surveys out. As I read through the questionnaire and the attached “explanatory letter,” I realized that it was a feeler of sorts. The condo…
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Recreational Marijuana: When the Government Sells Pot
After a lengthy political approval process, the Canadian Government recently legalized recreational marijuana. Considering that marijuana has been illegal in Canada since 1923, It’s kind of a big deal! Effective October 17, 2018, you can walk into a designated store and buy marijuana like you would buy beer and cigarettes. As various players such as…
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Meatless burgers and alcohol-free beer?
Imagine showing up for a barbecue where they serve you meatless burgers and alcohol-free beer! As someone who likes burgers juicy and beer medium-bodied, I am confused. It all started with some research into “meatless” meats. It was for a blog post on the subject of business disruption facing the meat industry. In case you…
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Bye-Bye Byron – A Matter of Life and Death
It turned out to be a matter of life and death… “You should have won that match,” I said, as Byron came off the squash court. He had just wrapped up a closely-contested house-league match in which he lost 2–3 to an opponent who I felt was less skilled than him. I was early for…
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Falling off a ladder – When adversity strikes
Last week my sister-in-law fell off a ladder. It wasn’t a “ha! ha! you fell down,” kind of fall. As the stabilizing bar on the aluminium step ladder gave way, she fell one way while her limbs, pinned under the ladder, went the other. She ended up in a hospital “Emergency” where she remained in…
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Laughter is the best medicine!
Many people believe that laughter is the best medicine — it makes us feel good. It is something that we can share with others over great distances, or face to face in crowded spaces. Guillaume Benjamin Duchenne, a French Neurologist of the 1800s era, first noted the difference between a genuine and spontaneous laugh…
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Where you live should not decide whether you live or die
I was excited. Nearly two years to the day after we received my daughter Anakha’s diagnosis, I came across another child with the same rare condition. Not a nameless statistic in a medical journal, but a real-life little girl, with a name and face. Someone else just like Anakha! Then, out of the blue, I…