10 questions to any neuroscientist:

1. How cues and rewards can be explained in neurological terms? ( parts of habit)
2. Can we go into numb state? ( If we are awake like there are no thoughts running?)
3. Can we function without tea or coffee?
4. Is the human memory limitless and will we need memory in the future?
5. Can you tell me some examples of the plasticity of the brain?
6. Can there be any difference If I learn something from my laptop or phone?
7. Can we effective multitaskers in the future?
8. How the brain perceives different types of art?
9. Should video games be banned?
10. Can you predict some big changes in the brain that will happen in the next century?

10 rules for digital detox.:

1. Streaming online with someone. You won’t watch movies or comedy shows alone. Laugh with your partner.
2. Scheduling time to check email daily. Not to check it often. 
3. Not relying on chrome to remember the passwords of social media accounts.
4. Designing home screen with apps which you need often ( not the apps you use often). e.g. Instagram is an app which you use often but you dont need it. You can even change the control center and notification center. 
5. Removing the Touch ID access. Use alphanumeric passcode every time to unlock.
6. Making a rule like using social media only while standing or while outside the house.
7. No screens in bed.
8. Watch youtube videos by downloading. 
9. Do not watch live matches on a mobile phone. 
10. Realizing that a phone is a tool, not an end product.

10 examples of any benefit approach:

We always use some technology in the hope that it will give us some benefit or some good thing. But this might not be a good approach in the world of information.

1. Bollywood: Bollywood only produces 1 valuable movie per 100. So, watching trailers so that you find one good movie is not a good practice. 
2. Social Media: Browsing feed to find something valueable.
3. Whatsapp: Whatsapp and Text messaging are similar. So using whatsapp has only slight advantage over texting. Its up to you to decide if whatsapp is worth.
4. Drugs: There might be some immediate benefits but does it justify the cost and health factor?
5. Badmouthing someone: 
6. Cricket 
7. Any job in your career.
8. Moving to any city or country.
9. Choosing a life partner.
10. Voting for any candidate. 

10 new type of crimes that will exist in this century:

1. Privacy theft: Acquiring some private info of someone will be a crime.
2. Manipulative theft: Data is used to manipulate others.
3. Genetic engineering”: Parents will want their kids to have certain genes/characterisitics which will be unethical.
4. Stupidity crime: When someone crosses a threshold of stupidity, he should be fined or jailed.
5. Carbon footprint: Everyone can have a certain limit to their carbon footprint. They can’t avoid that.
6. Fresh air in the black market: Fresh air will become scarce and a black market will definitely come up. 
7. Watching Reality shows: People who make this type of thing and who watch these things should end up in jail.
8. Taxing people who use most of the earth resources.
9. Plastic use: Plastic will be like a weed. Anyone who uses them should go to jail.
10. Sugar theft: Any food serving more than limited sugar will end up in jail.

10 genre of books that one can read to live better life

1. Psychology
2. Nutrition and Health
3. Selling and marketing.
4. Plants and Animals
5. Philosophy
6. Programming
7. Brain
8. Human-tech interaction
9. Parenting
10. Learning how to learn.

10 visual cues in your environment that trigger negative behaviour:

1. Visual Ads.
2. Chocolate on the cash counter of the supermarket.
3. Mobile phone along side your laptop.
4. Coke/Soda on the visual side of the refrigerator.
5. Cafeteria/TV room along the way of your office.
6. News
7. WhatsApp status.
8. Randomness/ Clutter in your bedroom.
9. Partied house. 
10. Bookmarks on your browser.

10 topics for the blog:

1. 10 personalized ways to visit websites.
2. 10 features of future iPhones
3. 10 examples of materialism in my life.
4. 10 ethical practices that amazon should follow.
5. 10 new things that can be introduced in parks.
6. 10 innovative ways to tackle pollution.
7. 10 famous book advice that I think is wrong.
8. 10 changes that should happen in the IT industry.
9. 10 changes in the road that should be made for electric cars.
10. 10 famous quotes that are plain stupid

10 problems with punjabi songs:

1. A 15-year old kid watching these songs will learn that the primary thing that impresses girls is cars or pride.
2. Music is a great emotion healer. So, the anti of that will be true also. It can invoke emotions of violence. 
3. Listening to violent songs and drinking alcohol is probably not a good combination.
4. Effect of Stereotyping: People around the country think that Punjabis drink, eat and show off.
5. Songs are cues: Any habit has 4 parts -cue, craving, response, and reward. Cue launches the behavior. In this case, any song on drinking is a strong cue to drink.
6. Free promotion of materialism: Using brands names again and again will motivate people to own these brands as a goal.
7. Ego Enhancer: Use of pride in songs enhances the ego of people and as our ancient folklores like Mahabharat, Ramayana has told us that ego will kill you one day.
8. IQ destroyer: Constant exposure to Punjabi videos and songs will definitely lower down your IQ.
9. They are a close second in objectifying women to Bollywood.
10. The violent songs should be treated like porn. You can watch it in your rooms but just don't play it in the public.
11. Tiktok

10 questions to any yoga expert:

1. Is it okay to drink any shake 2-3 hours before yoga?
2. Doing yoga in front of the sun has more benefits?
3. What is the difference between doing yoga in the morning and in the evening?
4. Is there any link between eating nonvegetarian food and yoga?
5. Is it better to start yoga with 2-3 mins of breathing?
6. What other physical activities( like running) I can combine with yoga?
7. Yoga in a group is more beneficial or doing it alone?
8. If I suryanamaskar daily for whole life, is it sufficient?
9. Should we yoga inside our home or in the open?
10. What are some practices that I can do for having better sleep?

10 new features that should be there in goodreads:

1. No Ads. I think Amazon already has a lot of money and they should not monetize this website.
2. A category of "abandoned" with currently reading, to read and read. (this option may not be visible to the world)
3. A separate edited section for documents of Kindle.
4. An option to get similar books based on one book. (option to select the book)
5. New segmenting criteria other than bestseller tag.
6. Fewer updates about what other people are reading.
7. To have an option to not display the reading metrics(like the number of books I read)
8. Average time to read displayed on the front page of any book/
9. No duplicate editions of a book.
10. A section of recommendations by famous people.

10 personal values that we can have:

1. Health- You never compromise your health for anybody.
2. Thinking- You always want to spend one hour in solitude daily.
3. Anger - Whenever you get angry, you write it down.
4. Friendship: You want to be friends with people with whom you have some similar values.
5. Sleep: You always complete 7 hours of sleep daily and do not compromise on it.
6. Talking about problems: You only talk about problems if you have some solutions to it.
7. Kids: You love playing with them no matter how they look.
8. Relaxation: You have your own ways to relax. It can be running, going for a trek or listening to music.
9. Drinks: You only drink certain type of fluids like juice or tea or beer.
10. Environment: You need not adjust to everyone. You only want to be surrounded by people you like.

10 new features that can be introduced in Kindle

1. A timer option
2. Highlights that are removed from a book should be deleted from My Clippings
3. An underlining feature with highlight
4. Documents synced all across devices.
5. Removing 'sync your kindle option. Most of the times, it gets synced automatically.
6. Automatically turning on airplane mode if it doesn't connect to a network in 15 mins.
7. Exporting the notes option for a book.
8. A way so that we can review the book easily after reading. (just like we can turn over the pages of a physical book).
9. Ability to rename the books on the cloud.
10. Future versions of kindle can be a bit large and have an option to pen down thoughts with an electric pencil.

10 innovations in Airports:

1. Water taps beings adjusted so that we can drink water like humans, not like our ancestors.
2. Baggage weighing machines at every airport.
3. Advanced security checking where we don’t have to empty our bags. 
4. 5% of compulsory adversity for the environment inside airlines.
5. Sleeping pods at airports.
6. Virtual Reality maps so that people can easily know where to go.
7. Sitting places near charging points
8. Making some rules so that not everyone stands up when the plane lands.
9. Airports connected with Metros. 
10. A small exercise or meditation room. If we can make space for the smoking room, we surely can do something for yoga rooms.

10 ideas for this blog:

1. 10 companies which created a need in the markets and then sold their products.
2. 10 changes in macOS
3. 10 ways the road problem in India can be solved.
4. 10 unethical practices by businesses.
5. 10 sports which demand 100% engagement. ( like tennis, where you are on toes for every moment v/s cricket where you wait for your performance)
6. 10 changes in Gmail.
7. 10 innovations in Grammarly.
8. 10 favorite puzzles of childhood.
9. 10 changes in cricket stadiums.
10. 10 ways to increase the quality of sleep.

10 changes in the construction of homes

1. All the new houses must have functional rainwater harvesting systems.
2. NZEB- Net Zero Energy buildings being more frequent.
3. An upper limit to the number of floors that can be constructed so that there is limited pressure on water resources.
4. The concept of yoga room or exercise room (or space in terrace) so that people keep their health on a priority.
5. Fans and lights getting switched on/off on sensing motion.
6. Make a rule which makes it mandatory to have every house being exposed to a certain quantity of sunlight.
7. Bathrooms having some limit on water usage.
8. Societies in metro cities to meet certain play conditions so that children can play.
9. Houses insulated enough to avoid external noise.
10. A world where no one brings his work or technology into their personal bedrooms.

10 predictions of how social media will evolve in next 10 years

1. It may become necessary for companies to hide the likes metric by the regulation authorities.
2. It's okay for people to not have a social media account at all.
3. An option to whether have AI curated feed or a general feed.( general feed is like how we get news in newspapers)
4. People being more truthful about their lives on social media.
5. Less emphasis on what celebrities think about the economic policies.
6. Increasing the age to use social media from13 to 18.
7. More filtering of the news based on how valuable or positive there.
8. A better alternative to email.
9. Just like we have zen mode in Xiaomi, social media companies should have something similar where everything will close down after a limit and you can only open it by donating money to the company.
10. More awareness on effect of technology and social media in our lives.

10 reasons why I don't watch Bollywood movies

1. Objectification of women on the basis of the face. The "handsome" actor falling in love with the girl having "pretty" face.
2. Using Items songs as a crowd attracting gimmick- Another case of objectification.
3. I don't want to reduce my IQ. Your environment overpowers every other factor in your character building.
4. I have better ways of relaxation- meditation, reading books and running.
5. The advice given in movies is highly impressionable. That advice might not apply to my situations but I still continue using that advice to land myself into trouble.
6. If you use any product once, you have created a demand for it. So, I don't want to encourage stupidity in this country.
7. Time investment in watching a movie: Two hours is a lot of time to watch a movie.
8. The streaming services like Netflix or Prime use addictive algorithms to keep me hooked to their platforms. 
9. Enjoyment(actively doing something) is always better than entertainment(passively viewing something).
10. Overconsumption of fiction: The more you consume fiction, farther away you get from the truth.

10 topics for this blog

1. 10 reasons why I should not watch Bollywood movies.
2. 10 ethical design changes in online streaming
3. 10 changes in Delhi metro.
4. 10 changes in society we need to make for Divyang People.
5. 10 must things in my bedroom.
6. 10 ways Tableau is better than Excel
7. 10 ways to conserve water in rural areas
8. 10 hypocrisies of USA (or maybe 100)
9. 10 changes in the construction of homes,
10. 10 advantages of having autonomous vehicles on the road.

10 ways families will evolve in next decades:

1. All watching the same news from different perspectives because of multiple screens.
2. Kids finding it difficult to strike conversations.
3. Nuclear families will outnumber joint families.
4. Every family has a personal gym device at home.
5. The idea that a couple can only live with in-laws of the boy will fade away. They can live with the girl's in-laws also.
6. It will become normal to have kids after 4-5 years of marriage.
7. The marriage functions will get smaller as people leave their root villages and the functions will reduce to 3-4 hour events.
8. Children will become addicted to screens as both the parents will be involved in their working lives.
9. With consumption like Netflix or food delivery services like Swiggy, picnics or outings will become a rare thing.
10. A society which is surrounded by ads at every movement.

10 types of Journals:

Journals are a way of recording thoughts and reflecting on them. 

1. Daily Journal's
2. Parenting Journals:  Where you record your learnings of parenthood.
3. Work Journal: Learnings of what you learned in the job including technical things.
4. Health Journal:
5. Food Journal: Your experiments of food and its effect on activity. 
6. Travel Journals
7. Digital Journals: Type of digital information you consume and how.
8. Finance Journals: An excel spreadsheet of how you spend money.
9. Friends Journal: Type of people we surround ourselves with and their influence on us.
10. Weekly Journals/ Monthly Journals
11. Entertainment Journal: Your consumption of Youtube or Netflix in this regard.
12. A public journal for trainees of a company.

10 unique ways to promote yoga:

1. Doing yoga in the middle of a traffic junction. ( definitely on a pedestal)
2. Yoga is done by one sports player before any match and it is broadcasted on TV. ( like Kohli doing yoga in the ground)
3. Making Yoga a part of the school curriculum.
4. If you are a yogi and you are at an airport, feel free to do it there.
5. Bike Logos, key rings.
6. Making one advertisement related to fitness at a traffic signal.
7. Government appointing Yoga teachers in every city.
8. People putting at least a photo of doing yoga on all their social media handles.
9. Making it compulsory to print Fit India message on all bills (including Fast food chains).
10. Yoga competitions in school level, college level.

10 changes in traffic rule violations:

1. Making it illegal for people to swarm like a bee at a railway crossing. People should stay on their side of the lane when waiting for a train.
2. To penalise people who text while driving.
3. To penalize bikes who make a lot of noise. (e.g. Royal Enfield)
4. Making helmets neccesary for women. Accidents are not sexist.
5. Punishing kids who drive by making their parents do the homework at the signal.
6. People going on bicycles given preference on roads.
7. Traffic lightning working on real-time traffic data.
8. Fining people who play loud music on their cars.
9. Limit on the type of advertisement shown on signals.
10. Cancelling the licence of people who double park.

10 questions to dietician/nutritionist:

1. What should be the exact percentage distribution of cardio and running in exercise?
2. Is it a good philosophy to eat only when we are hungry?
3. Do you advise talking while eating?
4. Can a person survive without drinking tea and coffee? Can I be active without drinking these things?
5. Isn't the concept of cheat days a mockery? Having cheat days means that some part of you still wants to eat fast food.
6. Is it okay to play immediately after eating?
7. Should not there be some rule where corporates should not be allowed to collect the eating data of their customers?
8. Can I skip carbohydrates to the afternoon and start my day with fruits and milk?
9. There is no difference in eating by hands or sticks or spoon?
10. Should we drink water before sleeping?

Review: 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This book is easy to read as you can start from any chapter. The last 3 chapters of the book are extremely important as it makes you understand how Harari thinks.
One should always prefer his first two books over this book.

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10 jokes about human stupidity:

1. We cheer when others play a sport and win. What have we achieved here?
2. We are making our homes smart and our environments dull.
3. We like to see who has commented on our friend's photos.
4. Stress, a human invention
5. We want our kids to study more but play less? Thinking is important but Humans survived by movement. 
6. We eat large quantities of food and then eat tiny medicines to balance the effects.
7. We hate our relatives but now they are in our phones constantly flickering in front of our eyes with their status.
8. We made all the progress to get stuck in traffic.
9. We obsess over people whom we will never meet in life( celebrities/ stars) ignoring those people who are around us.
10. Youtube Trending Section.

10 changes in food industry:

1. Have an environment tax for using packaging materials.
2. Have slow music played while people are eating food.
3. Soft drinks banned for kids below 12 years.
4. To not use word happiness with food at all.
5. Make harmful ingredients like ketchup, sugar etc as chargeable.
6. Making it mandatory that sportspersons don't promote unhealthy foods.
7. Menus with salads being on the front page.
8. Checking the unethical practices of fast-food chains. ( a general emphasis is given on buying a coke for every order)
9. Not allowing the food truck vehicles to operate on roads where there is significant pollution of any kind.
10. Telling people that they can opt-out of promotional message services and that they can refuse to give their mobile numbers.

10 updates/improvements in the iPhone:

1. Faster Charging. 
2. Zen mode like that of Xiaomi.
3. A feature where it turns off all the basic features before 1 hour of sleeping time. 
4. A limit on the no of apps that can be installed. 
5. A default habit tracker in the phone.
6. Better Battery performance.
7. The phone being used as a projector.
8. "Hey Siri" and timer can be used from far away.
9. A video tutorial which tells users that a phone is a tool, not everything.
10. Iphone camera can scan how much calories are there in food.

10 things of today that will go extinct in the next 20 years

1. Wires ( Charging wires, laptop wires or any kind of wires)
2. Tickets/ Receipts
3. Tiktok(It should go down in next 1 year)
4. Punjabi Culture ( Thinking is not a priority here. So it will go down)
5. Swimming Pools( We won't have enough water for leisure)
6. Specks 
7. Physical Notebooks: There will be a digital notebooks.
8. Keys
9. Government Jobs
10. Privacy

10 topic ideas for this blog:

1. 10 innovations in the design of windows.
2. 10 changes in the cafeteria of companies.
3. 10 changes in bank offices.
4. 10 requests to car companies
5. 10 ways podcasts will evolve in the future.
6. 10 changes in traffic rule violations
7. 10 changes that Facebook should bring.
8. 10 requests to NASA.
9. 10 ideas of how GYMs will look in the future.
10. 10 instruments of today that will go extinct in the next 10 years. ( e.g Glue)

10 questions to a English language expert:

1. Is language a way of communication or more than that for you?
2. If in the future, we have chips in our brains which will convert our thoughts into language, do we really need to learn languages then?
3. Can you tell me some names which are gender-neutral?
4. We are seeing a decrease in the reading of literature. What do you think about it?
5. Do you see your language getting extinct after 10,000 years?
6. How do you think your language exams should be conducted?
7. Do you consider Mandarian a language since it is the interaction of different symbols?
8. If one region has two different official languages and the government has chosen other language than your one as a way of communication, will you resent and how?
9. In an equally imagined world, do you think we should have only one language?
10.  Can language have an effect on the personality of children? Consider an experiment where two kids are living in different parts with every other factor except language being similar?

10 examples of low technology that really improve our life.

Technology does not need to be high tech to improve the quality of your life. I believe that you should find the things you value and then find the technology accordingly.

1. Alarm Clock: I think just because we have alarms in phones, we should not abandon the clocks. I am strictly again keeping the phones in the bedroom. 
2. Text Messaging over WhatsApp: I think I don't need WhatsApp. Most of my needs can be easily achieved via text messaging. So there is no need for me to install WhatsApp. 
3. Books/blogs over Social Media: I am an ideas person and I think that books are still the best way to learn about ideas. Twitter might help me in connecting with similar people but it has negatives. In terms of books, there are no negatives. 
4. No OTT platforms: Entertainment takes away the time that we should spend on ourself or with closed ones.
5.  Cooking over eating out: The menu of options always confuses me and I think cooking at home is still better than eating out.
6. One week an episode over binge-watching
7. Newspapers over web news: I don't want to feel anxious by watching trending news or breaking news. I would prefer a filtered version of events a day later than the events.
8. Copper Water Bottles over Plastic Bottles.
9. Physical Sports over Digital games.
10. Not relying on health devices. I think I will listen to my body than a Fitbit watch telling me to run 10,000 steps a day.

Review: The Human Factor: Revolutionizing the Way People Live with Technology

The Human Factor: Revolutionizing the Way People Live with Technology by Kim J. Vicente
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This book was recommended by one Professor friend and the book was worth all the time I spent reading it. Human-tech is the term that is coined by Prof Kim Vicente. Books like this should be required reading in the first year of engineering. One particular thing that I liked about Kim is his emphasis on environment for designing products. The last chapter is the best one which summarises the book ideas well and has advice on how we can look at technology.
I am rating it 5 stars because I never lost interest in the book and the examples are well explained at every step. This book does not get boring or repetitive at any point.


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