Category: Blog
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My 12 favourite problems
I’ve never been particularly successful with new year resolutions. So in setting my intentions on what I want to focus on in 2023, I wanted to use the concept of 12 favourite problems. The concept is based on the Nobel winning scientist Richard Feynman’s unique approach to problem solving. My approach to problem-solving is to…
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Moving places and changing worlds
A home is a place where you are the most comfortable. But to make progress in life you have to get out of your comfort zone. For me to grow, I turned over a new leaf when I moved out of my home.
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Getting work done in a large organization is tough
Challenges of working in a large organization and some ways tackle them
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MY TIME IN IOWA – II
Part 2: Work as a Student Back in 2015, when I decided to pursue my master’s degree, there were quite a few factors that I had to consider to shortlist universities. Some of them were US college rankings, location, weather, course structure, and jobs. But to begin with, as an international student when I landed…
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I SURVIVED A BLIZZARD IN THE MID-WEST
The time when I got stuck in a snowstorm but luckily survived.
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My top 5 audiobooks for 2020
This year, I got onto the reading/listening train quite late and approximately got in 187 hours of audiobook listening as compared to the 250 hours in 2019. Hopefully, I can make a comeback in 2021. Here are my top 5 in no particular order. Where the crawdads sing by Delia Owens: A young girl who…
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A day in my life as a Manufacturing Engineer
My employer, NSK Corporation, is a world renowned Japanese company that manufactures a whole array of bearings. I work at their facility in Clarinda, Iowa, that supplies ball bearings to major automobile makers all over the world. The bearing is a fairly simple product, but the components that makes up a bearing go through multiple…
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Quarter-life crossroads
I turned 25 in January this year and now that I have completed my education and have a job, that puts me in the “settled” category of the natural order of things. Honestly, I do no feel that way. Recently, I was watching Taylor Tomlinson’s Netflix special “Quarter-life Crisis”, which was hilarious and I didn’t…
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The audiobooks I liked in 2019
I used to drive to my internship and listening to the same songs play on the radio station everyday eventually wore on me. So instead..
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The Missions of San Antonio: Summer of ’19
We are in the second half of the year and my summer was pretty busy with graduation, my grandparents visiting me, and me enjoying the awesome weather with a few trips that I have been lazy to write about. Toward the end of this summer I had the opportunity to visit San Antonio, Texas. I…
Shubham Khoje 