Life and Experiences Archives - Alok Govil https://alokgovil.com/category/life-and-experiences/ Simplifier in Science, Technology, and Life Fri, 18 Feb 2022 23:28:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 https://alokgovil.com/wp-content/uploads/root/cropped-alok-govil-32x32.jpg Life and Experiences Archives - Alok Govil https://alokgovil.com/category/life-and-experiences/ 32 32 Photography Portfolio https://alokgovil.com/photography-portfolio/ https://alokgovil.com/photography-portfolio/#respond Sat, 06 Jun 2020 22:15:12 +0000 https://alokgovil.com/?p=509 Below are the best photos I have ever clicked. All are being made available under a Creative Commons License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). The photos can also be downloaded from my new Flickr page. Questions and Answers Why is this specific Creative Commons License, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, chosen? CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 is the most common license […]

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]]> https://alokgovil.com/photography-portfolio/feed/ 0 Interview by Qeemle https://alokgovil.com/interview-by-qeemle/ https://alokgovil.com/interview-by-qeemle/#respond Sun, 26 Apr 2020 22:41:39 +0000 https://alokgovil.com/?p=365 High competition has made education focus more on securing employment, has reduced interests to choosing professions, constrained learning to predefined syllabuses, and turned careers into ‘jobs’. How should young students looking forward to their lives discover the true nature of the choices ahead, and establish themselves in the society and economy? How should they even […]

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]]> https://alokgovil.com/interview-by-qeemle/feed/ 0 The Future is Behind Us! https://alokgovil.com/the-future-is-behind-us/ https://alokgovil.com/the-future-is-behind-us/#respond Tue, 18 Feb 2020 10:28:03 +0000 https://alokgovil.com/?p=135 In English, future is ahead of us. In Aymara, it is behind us! That is a better system actually, since we can see the past ahead of us, but not the future behind. We use the past to take limited guesses on what the future may hold. It ain’t much different from walking backwards. We […]

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]]> https://alokgovil.com/the-future-is-behind-us/feed/ 0 The Art Status https://alokgovil.com/the-art-status/ https://alokgovil.com/the-art-status/#respond Sun, 26 Apr 2020 22:01:00 +0000 https://alokgovil.com/?p=360 Whether you are learning to build software, play music, or paint, the first thousands of hours go into the tools/work. You’ll make mistakes, have “A-ha” moments, outperform your own expectations, as well as fail. And that’s when you reach this what I call “the Art status,” where the tools and process become invisible, and you […]

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]]> https://alokgovil.com/the-art-status/feed/ 0 The Octopus Hands Approach https://alokgovil.com/the-octopus-hands-approach/ https://alokgovil.com/the-octopus-hands-approach/#respond Sun, 26 Apr 2020 21:34:48 +0000 https://alokgovil.com/?p=353 Whenever you want something really important to you, or have a goal that you strongly connect to, you use all in your will to chase it. You use more hands than you got, somehow (hence the name octopus hands [1]), not leave any hole open for lapses or failure. When you find it not going […]

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