Tag: self awareness

October 26th, 2018

How do you gain experience without becoming cynical?

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Early in my career, there were many things that people did that I couldn’t quite understand. Like when a manager would make the exact opposite decision of the one I would’ve made. I used to pester my colleagues all the time to try to get explanations. Some of these guys had been in the […]

August 15th, 2017

Mindfulness and Politics

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Political discussions can be some of the most challenging places to practice mindfulness. It’s so easy to get caught up in mindless debates that generate more heat than light. But if we pay close attention, I think our political conversations can be a source of insight. What are the lenses through which we view […]

March 16th, 2017

Disentangling human projection from artificial intelligence

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In a previous video, I talked about how our senses aren’t passively received from the world, but are actively constructed and projected into the world. The world is like a coloring book that we color in with each of our senses, every moment that we’re awake. Now what about our emotions? They’re no less […]

April 25th, 2011

Open Source, Giving Freely, and Self Awareness

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[ This article is also published on opensource.com ]

In a July 2010 post on opensource.com, Jonathan Opp wrote about the nature of giving and participating in a gift culture/economy. One point that he mentions is the benefit of giving freely, without strings attached. I’d like to expand on that, since I think there’s a […]

Kartik Subbarao

How do you gain experience without becoming cynical?

Mindfulness and Politics

Disentangling human projection from artificial intelligence

Open Source, Giving Freely, and Self Awareness

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