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THE BUSINESS OF BUSYNESS

Posted on July 30, 2017 by Percy M

In the movie Iron Man, Tony Stark (Iron Man) tells Pepper Potts, his assistant,
the following:

> There is nothing except this. There’s no art opening, no charity, nothing to
> sign. There’s the next mission, and nothing else.

Another Tony, this time a real-one, Tony Schwartz in a HBR article a few years
ago wrote about how being really busy is a way to avoid feeling anything because
you have no time to think or feel. By extrapolation, you could say there’s just
the next task to complete, the next deadline to hit, and nothing else.

I’ve been thinking about this recently because I’ve been busy in the same way
that Tony Schwartz mentions and it leads to a single-minded focus to finish
stuff; it also leads to your neglecting everything else. I’ve been busy to the
point of working long hours and on weekends but it’s not something that I can
see myself doing for months on end. But, I know people who do it project after
project and I’ve wondered about how.

One way to do it is to neglect everything else as I’ve mentioned above; this
means, if you have almost no family life, no social life, effectively no
personal time or life. The other thing about why people do it is more
interesting and I believe that money is a (small to medium) factor. Another
factor is the feeling of accomplishment such work can bring. A big factor,
though, is the thrill and excitement of meeting deadlines or working in a
fast-paced (read: exciting) environment; as in, there are people who enjoy this
kind of working. I’m not one of them; when you’re working in such a way that
you’re not sure what day it is, I think that’s taking things too far.

In general, people seem to think that there’s something heroic about working
extremely hard to a point where you’re pushing the boundaries of what’s
possible. We tend to admire people who do the working on late nights [1], long
hours, or weekends but not the people who manage a great balance between their
work and personal lives while still producing quality work. Who hasn’t heard
admiring stories about people (in government, tech, business, or medicine) who
survive on lesser sleep than other mortals?

Maybe it’s a human thing to we admire the superhuman effort but there are costs
because, unfortunately, we are not super-humans. You can do this sort of crazy
working hours for a limited period (a few weeks) but if you keep pushing
yourself for longer periods, then there are negative consequences. Your physical
health is one, your emotional and mental health are the other, and then there
are the consequences to your family and social life, and so on.

For companies too, I don’t think this sort of busyness is good for business.
Lack of sleep, exercise, down time, and so on will lead to a decrease in the
performance and quality of work [2]. So, rewarding unsustainable hard work is
not a good example for companies to set either. Sadly though, I don’t think this
mindset is going away anytime soon. So, it’s up to individuals to manage their
work lives and set expectations boundaries.

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I really need to get back to work.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

[1]: Notice though that it’s almost always about the late nights but not so much
about the person who wakes up early. Maybe there’s something more heroic about
soldiering on well into the night as compared to taking a break and waking up
early (and refreshed)?

[2]: Tony Schwartz, who founded The Energy Project, is also the co-author of a
wonderful book called The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working; sub-title: The Four
Forgotten Needs That Energize Great Performance.


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KAKKOOS

Posted on June 30, 2017 by Percy M

A couple of weeks ago, I watched a documentary called Kakkoos. I had watched a
trailer before and wanted to watch the full film, so when I found out that it
was released on YouTube, I decided to watch. I remembered, from the trailer,
that the documentary was about manual scavenging and that it seemed interesting
but not much else.

When I started watching it though, I was shocked; some of the scenes were
stomach-churning and sometimes so bad that I could not watch.

Let that sink in for a moment: I couldn’t watch scenes from a documentary where
my fellow citizens clean shit (oops, human excreta) as part of their daily job.

Here’s the government’s definition of a “manual scavenger” (emphasis mine):

> “Manual scavenger” means a person engaged or employed, at the commencement of
> this Act or at any time thereafter, by an individual or a local authority or
> an agency or a contractor, for manually cleaning, carrying, disposing of, or
> otherwise handling in any manner, human excreta in an insanitary latrine or in
> an open drain or pit into which the human excreta from the insanitary latrines
> is disposed of, or railway track or in such other spaces or premises, as the
> Central Government or a State Government may notify, before the excreta fully
> decomposes in such manner as may be prescribed, and the expression “manual
> scavenging” shall be construed accordingly.

The definition is descriptive but does not capture how horrible the task is and
the term “manual scavenging” itself seems so sterile. Scavenging is not a word
that you feel repulsed by, so manual scavenging seems benign. Maybe that’s why
the bureaucrats chose the term; it doesn’t evoke disgust.

But, the documentary, which is shot in multiple locations in Tamil Nadu and has
interviews with numerous folks engaged in this inhumane and soul-crushing work,
does. It is a searing film because it exposes the reality of this work and the
manner in which people are exploited and suppressed.

I can easily recall the faces of the people in the documentary and remember the
despair, anger, and resignation in their voice; their stories are haunting and
will jolt you. The genius of this documentary is that it makes you uncomfortable
when you watch and disturbs you when you think about this later.

So, why even watch? Because if you live in your bubble and think that your
country has “made it” because it’s going digital or because marketing slogans
(Swachh Bharat) make you feel proud, this documentary will show the depths to
which our fellow citizens have to go simply to survive.

It should shame us that even though there are machines to do this kind of work,
we still have no problems with asking people risking their lives (yes, there
have been deaths in sewers) and their health to keep our surroundings clean.

This is exploitation and it is oppression and we are complicit because of our
silence and because we don’t want to know. So, make the time and watch Kakkoos ;
I guarantee that you’ll be disgusted, horrified, and moved. And, it’ll be
something concrete that people face daily and not an abstract term like “manual
scavenging”. You owe it to the folks who do this every day to, at least, watch.


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SORRY FOR THE RADIO SILENCE

Posted on June 4, 2017 by Percy M

Sorry folks for not posting in a while. Things have been busy at work, so a lack
of energy has contributed to my prodigious output here over the last two months.
I’ll post at least once for the next couple of months and hope to be back to
more regular posting after that.

I’ll keep you posted. (Yeah, yeah, I know.)

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THE HERETICS (BY WILL STORR)

Posted on April 7, 2017 by Percy M

The tag line of Will Storr’s The Heretics is Adventures with the Enemies of
Science and it is a book about science and about people who don’t believe the
scientific “facts”. It is also a deeply thought-provoking book because it forces
you to question your assumptions about the things that you believe.

Storr meets a variety of people, from Creationists to people who believe that
they’ve been abducted by aliens to rationalists, and actually listens to what
the people are saying with an open mind and, in the process, ends up opening
your mind to the unstated assumptions that we all make about the things that we
believe in.

I hesitate to write about the book in these terms because it sounds like I’m
talking about a book about thinking or philosophy. At its heart, The Heretics is
a fascinating reportage-cum-commentary on different “belief systems” that people
have and the sort of continuum on which those belief systems lie.

In the aftermath of the Donald Trump election, when people were talking about
books to recommend to understand liberal versus conservative perspectives, I
thought that The Heretics would be a good book to read because it shows you how
to understand points of view that you think might even be absurd and with that
understanding there is a chance of empathy.

I think that we could all use a little more empathy in our lives.

PS: I’ve a nagging feeling at the back of my mind that this “review” has not
done justice to the book, so if you feel that way, please check out this
interview with Will Storr, which has a nice background of the book and the
author explaining why he wrote the book.

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THE YEAR(S) THAT CHANGED THE INDIAN MEDIA

Posted on March 26, 2017 by Percy M

In 2014, when Mr. Modi swept to power as the PM, people spoke and wrote about a
changed India. Now, 3 years later, I think that what it changed more was the
Indian media and journalism landscape and that in turn has led to the changes in
India we’re seeing now.

(I get that some of these are generalizations and that they are not always true
about all issues but they are true about many issues a lot of the time.)

Think about it: you have a Prime Minister, who calls himself the pradhan sewak,
but refuses to hold press conferences, does a few interviews, maintains only
one-way communication (radio, election speeches, Twitter) and the media accepts
it without putting up a fight.

Even that would be okay if the media decided to spend its time researching
policies, trying to deconstruct the one-way communication, and doing whatever it
could to compensate for the loss of direct questions. What did the media do?
They simply accepted the change of communication rules and reported what the PM
said, throwing a critical opinion in every once in a while.

Compare that with what the media did during the UPA II regime. It was the media
that brought the corruption and other issues to the fore and harangued the
government. Now, next to nothing!

The media now spends an inordinate amount of time outraging about issues that
are peripheral, or important but not critically important while letting the
critical issues go by. Instead of applying critical thinking to the government’s
actions, the media accepts what the government is saying and chooses to focus on
the “distractions” that conveniently seem to crop up. What the public loses when
this happens is the right to be informed about what the government is doing and
this in turn slowly leads to weakening of the institutions that are supposed to
do the checks and balances.

As I was writing this, here’s what the Executive Editor at India Today tweeted:

> More than 350 cows at the Gorakhnath temple Gaushala. Several calves ran to
> Yogi Adityanath as he reached & gave them Gur & their feed

Of course, this is not a representative sample, and this is a tweet, but it is
exactly the sort of thing that the government is happy to have the media focus
on, while it does bigger things that don’t get reported too well or not at all.

And, what better way to end this post than to point you to the excellent
Meghnad‘s column at Newslaundry: Finance Bill 2017: You’ve just been punked.
(As, an aside, while the Finance Bill 2017 was being passed, the media was
focused on what the UP CM ate for breakfast and other food-related issues.)

This is peak crisis time for Indian journalism. I really hope that they make it.
In the meanwhile, go to the non-traditional media sites like Scroll, The Wire,
Newslaundry, which have done a way better job of reporting and critical analysis
than the traditional media.

PS: Meghnad’s piece Media failed to cover Finance Bill because Parliament
reporting is non-existent gives an excellent account of how the media fails in
reporting what goes on in our Parliament.

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SPEAKING UP AS A WAY OF PROVIDING COVER AND MORE

Posted on February 26, 2017 by Percy M

A couple of weeks ago, when there was outrage in the US about the ‘Muslim ban’
order, I read a piece [1] by an entrepreneur who explained why he was speaking
up against the order. He said that when people like him spoke up, it would
provide cover for others to speak up as well. That bit about providing cover
resonated with me deeply and I’ve been thinking about it ever since.

Earlier today, I read this Twitter thread (by Anand Giridharadas) about the
murder of Srinivas Kuchibhotla in Kansas, and one of the things said was this:

> Please understand, Mr. President, that this too gives permission, by
> dog-whistling to drifters that they might do what the government can’t.

Reading this my thoughts went to the violent incident at Ramjas College where
ABVP members used violence against students and journalists. I started thinking
about the increase in the frequency of such incidents in colleges and about how
the narrative from the ruling party has always been that “we will not tolerate
being anti-national” or that “free speech has its limits” and so on.

What is this, if not providing cover for such incidents to happen? Is it a
coincidence that the language, the threats, the violence have been ratcheted up
after the BJP came to power? I think not. Look at what the BJP national
president said recently comparing the Congress, SP, and BSP to a terrorist. Of
course, our PM was not far behind with his concern over electricity and
cemeteries in an election speech.

This kind of dog-whistling provides cover for people to openly indulge in hate
on Twitter, Facebook, Whatsapp, and even more dangerously in the “real world” by
threats and acts of violence.

So, given that the cover is being given to support hate and divide, it is even
more important for people to speak up against such incidents and call out
bigotry and bullshit when they see it. And, if you think it doesn’t make a
difference, it does. Acts of courage and defiance are inspirational; they can
give rise to movements and can act as catalysts.

There are people who are now being courageous and providing cover against the
assault on free speech and dissent, and the trend towards toxic nationalism.
But, to resist, you need more people to speak up and amplify the voices.

Speak up. It is hard but if you want to preserve a democracy, you have to fight
for it.

[1]: I can’t for the life of me remember where I read this.

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DIGITAL THIS, DIGITAL EVERYTHING: WHERE’S THE POWER COMING FROM?

Posted on February 25, 2017 by Percy M

The world seems to have been so caught up in moving everything to the digital
way of life that only a few people have paused to ask where the energy is going
to come from. Take smartphones for instance; it used to be that phone batteries
lasted for days and now they’re a day or two tops. It’s not that the battery
capacities have stayed the same, it’s that the phones consume so much power
because they’re basically miniaturized laptops that the technology can’t really
keep up. So, we’ve gone to a situation where we now need more power to feed the
smartphone and tablet usage.

In India, the government has committed itself to building a Digital India. To go
digital, you need compute (servers), networking (to move data), data centers
(storage); all this takes power, more power than we’re currently using. And, you
need power to cool the “machines” that are providing the infrastructure for
going digital.

Then, consider the Internet of Things (IoT); you are basically looking at
connecting millions of devices to the Internet to enable them to talk to each
other, for applications to use, etc. More power needed.

The whole thing is one giant power sucking machine that gets hungrier and
hungrier. Just take a look at this Wikimedia graph: World Energy Consumption
Chart and you’ll see what I’m talking about. It’s been increasing and will
continue to increase. Right now, less than 7% of the world’s power is met by
renewables (see this tool). A BP projection says “The share of renewables in the
US fuel mix grows to 13% in 2035.”

While you keep hearing about renewable energy (solar, wind, etc.) and biofuels
(still polluting, by the way), the growth isn’t fast enough to meet the energy
demands. So, where is the power going to come from? A significant portion of our
energy wants (not needs) will still come from coal, oil, natural gas, etc.,
often lumped together as fossil fuels. (I think they should be called
buried-CO2-releasing fuels but that’s just me.)

So, you still need fossil fuels and all this talk of renewables and smarter
technologies are not going to help unless the power consumption levels out. I’ve
seen no sign that this is going to happen anytime soon.

This talk of digital this and that makes me weary and circumspect because it is
so easy to get swept away by the hype and the utopian promises. If you think
about more digital in terms of more energy consumption, it’s not such an
attractive proposition anymore.

As is the case with such posts, I have to say that I’m not a Luddite and that I
realize that this is being written inside a browser, stored in a data center,
and published on a server. Not to mention the broadband, the laptop, and all the
accoutrements.

I get the allure of technology and i get that it has improved things. But,
ultimately I think that the path that we are going down is not worth it because
what it is leading to is the destruction of the natural world. My fear is in
knowing that I am in the minuscule minority of people who think like this.

I want to end with a paragraph of Paul Kingsnorth’s essay Dark Ecology (which,
if you haven’t read, you must):

> There is always change, as a neo-environmentalist would happily tell you; but
> there are different qualities of change. There is human-scale change, and
> there is industrial-scale change; there is change led by the needs of complex
> systems, and change led by the needs of individual humans. There is a
> manageable rate of evolution, and there is a chaotic, excitable rush toward
> shiny things perched on the edge of a great ravine, flashing and scrolling
> like sirens in the gathering dusk.

Maybe we could all pause and consider this “chaotic, excitable rush toward shiny
things perched on the edge of a great ravine“.

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BRIEF PROGRAMMING NOTE

Posted on January 30, 2017 by Percy M

It is quite likely, given that tomorrow’s the last day of the month, that I
won’t be able to meet my 2-per-month quota. I’ll make up for it next month.
Apologies to the readers who read what I write and thank you for reading.

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IDEAS ARE CHEAP, OWNERSHIP IS HARD

Posted on January 30, 2017 by Percy M

A few months ago, in a meeting, in response to something that I’d worked on
along with a different team member, someone said, Why don’t we do…? The “do
what” does not matter; it was the “we” that I’d like to focus on. The use of
“we” in such situations looks like a benign word but it hides a more pernicious
agenda of why doesn’t someone do this as long as this someone is not me.

Before you accuse me of reading too much into this one incident, this is
something that I’ve noticed time and again, so it’s not just about one incident.
Also, I’m pointing this out about people who make suggestions (i.e. give ideas)
but do not take the initiative to actually implement any ideas or improve
processes, i.e. take ownership of something and execute on the idea.

I think it’s because ideas and suggestions are so easy to throw out there. “We
should do x to improve y”, without specifying the we and without further action
is what empty vessels do.

To give an idea or a suggestion, to follow it up with a well-thought out
execution plan, and to execute the plan is hard work. Also, it makes you
responsible for implementing the idea and when you actually take responsibility,
you see what executing your brilliant (in your mind) idea actually entails.

I have been in meetings where people have tossed out ideas and when you ask them
to come back with even a high-level explanation of the how (regarding the
execution), they have no clue about how to proceed. Sometimes it is because the
ideas themselves are superficial, other times it is a lack of critical thinking
and understanding that prevents folks from seeing bottlenecks and issues that
could crop up.

I’m not against giving ideas but against the notion that ideas are enough;
they’re not. Ask anyone who has created something based on an idea or
implemented something based on an idea and you’ll understand how much effort the
execution actually takes. While ideas are important, they are only one part of
the process–the execution is far more important and far more difficult than the
generation of the idea.

So, go ahead and keep generating ideas but take ownership of some and bring the
ideas in your head to fruition by doing the hard work of executing them. You
will gain a new sense of appreciation for the people who generate ideas and
successfully execute them. And, even if you fail, you’ll learn something about
how to actually do stuff rather than talk about stuff.

That’s a win-win situation if you ask me.

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THE BEST BOOKS THAT I READ IN 2016

Posted on December 30, 2016 by Percy M

Since this is a time of lists and more lists, I’m adding my list to the lists.

These are the best books that I read in 2016, not the books that were published
in 2016. In the order that I remember them now.

 1.  When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi (my review): I read it twice and
     I’ll probably go back to it again.
 2.  H is for Hawk by Helen MacDonald: About training a hawk (goshawk actually)
     to deal with the aftermath of her father’s death. Riveting book
 3.  The Heretics by Will Storr: I need to review this book at some point but
     until that point suffice to say that this is a brilliant,
     thought-provoking, well-researched, fascinating book .
 4.  Woodsmoke and Leaf Cups by Madhu Ramnath (my tweet about book): A
     masterpiece of anthropological reporting, which, sadly, according to the
     publisher did not do well.
 5.  Nickel and Damned by Barbara Ehrenreich: Quite an old book actually buy but
     still relevant. A reporter goes undercover doing minimum-wage jobs and
     documents the hardships that she faces.
 6.  Technopoly by Neil Postman: The sub-title of the book is “The Surrender of
     Culture to Technology”. Another one that I must review and another that is
     just brilliant.
 7.  Eating Animals by Jonathan Saffran Foer: If you eat “non vegetarian” food,
     as we Indian’s call it, this is a book that you should read. Excellent
     book, thought-provoking, and disturbing to meat eaters everywhere, myself
     included.
 8.  Cod by Mark Kurlansky: You would think the story of a fish being fished
     would not be that interesting and you would be wrong. Cod is a masterpiece.
 9.  Liar’s Club* by Mary Carr: Breathtaking, heartbreaking memoir. Transports
     you to the world of Carr’s childhood. I could not put this book down.
 10. The Watcher by Charles Maclean: The first (and so far only) fiction book on
     this list. I bought this book because of a Guardian recommendation and I
     was not disappointed. The writing was phenomenal, the story and suspense
     simply gripping. I finished this in a day or so I think.
 11. So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson: If you are on social media,
     this is a must read. If you aren’t, it is still a must read for knowing
     about the culture of shaming that exists online today.
 12. Essentialism by Greg McKeown: Essentialism is about the “disciplined
     pursuit of less”. Essential reading for our “I want it all” age.
 13. Give and Take by Adam Grant: Fascinating book about givers and takers.
 14. Things That Can and Cannot be Said by John Cusack, Arundathi Roy et al:
     Short, but super sweet (my tweet about book)

It’s late and this is all from memory, so I’m stopping now. If I missed
something else that I read and found really good, I’ll update the list. Or not.
Oh, the suspense.

* – [4-Jun-17] Corrected this based on a feedback via Twitter

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