Category: Slowseeing
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The Four-Hour Happiness Con
I was scrolling through my Running WhatsApp group when I came across a post advertising a four-hour happiness workshop for ₹1999. The absurdity of it hit me so hard I almost dropped my phone. Happiness,…
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From Taste to Instinct
We live in a time that moves faster than we can process. Social media, endless notifications, curated feeds, streams of information: it’s all designed to keep us moving, scrolling, reacting. Most of us don’t notice…
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The Seduction of Easy Thinking
Every age produces its own bestsellers, its own prophets of clarity. Today’s bookshops and airports are stacked high with titles that promise to decode the human mind, map out the arc of history, explain why…
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11,000 Positions ; Infinite Buzzwords
Disclaimer:This is a satirical take on the recent announcement by Accenture CEO Julie Sweet, who stated that the company is exiting 11,000 employees who cannot be trained in artificial intelligence. The following content exaggerates corporate…
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The End of Labor Arbitrage? How U.S. Policy and Market Shifts Are Rewriting Indian IT Strategy
The outsourcing industry is running into a storm. Higher H-1B visa fees, the proposed HIRE Act, shrinking profit margins, and the slow erosion of labor cost advantages are converging at once. Even Global Capability Centers…
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Hidden Frontiers: Technology in the Quiet Spaces of Life
This essay imagines possible futures, a thought experiment on how technology might touch the hidden corners of life I keep finding myself thinking about the corners of life that technology rarely touches. Not phones, apps,…
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Why Originality is Overrated
We like to think creativity is about being original. Pure, groundbreaking originality. It just appears out of nowhere. Truth? Mostly a myth. Almost nothing truly new comes from nothing. Creativity is messy. Borrowed. Broken. Stitched…
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From Product to ‘wow’: Building Experiences People Actually Love
Products aren’t just gadgets on shelves. They’re also the apps we open, the courses we take, the music we stream. If it solves a problem, meets a need, or adds value to someone’s life, it’s…
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When Jobs Stop Being Jobs
You can feel it already. Something is slipping. The word “job” doesn’t stretch far enough anymore. Work has never been one thing. First, it was survival. Hunt, farm, barter. Then it became a hierarchy. Apprentice,…
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Enough Isn’t a Number
Most of us don’t know. We chase more without ever stopping to ask what line we’re crossing. More money, more comfort, more recognition. We think when we hit the next milestone, that will be it.…