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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