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Jottings - Slice of life - 300 - (a meditation on migraines - a personal odyssey and salvation)

(Jottings - Slice of life - 300 - a meditation on migraines - a personal odyssey and salvation) One of my earliest childhood memories, until about thirteen or fourteen, is the excruciating pain I experienced at frequent intervals on the left-hand side of my head. These were splitting headaches unimaginable in intensity. It would start with general feeling of uneasiness in the body, a loss of interest in whatever I was doing, a sense of withdrawal from the world outside, difficulty focussing on anything; a mild nauseous sensation in the stomach followed by increased salivation and a taste of bile around the mouth, few bouts of vomiting and an intense dislike of food, growing insensitivity to light ( it would become extremely painful to look at anything bright), and above all a piercing pain in the left eye with star-like formations, and holographic figures flitting across my vision with unhurried movement, often blocking areas of vision. This entire episode would last anywhere betwe

Jottings - Slice of life -299 ( Blue Collared, White collared, and now “New collared” jobs - thoughts on the nature of jobs in the digital age)

Jottings - Slice of life -299 ( Blue Collared, White collared, and now “New collared” jobs - thoughts on the nature of jobs in the digital age) One of the key questions educators and the industry alike should answer very quickly is what kind of jobs are likely to take over as the twenty-first-century surges along, and Information technology at the workplace in deployed in increasing orders of magnitude. Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine learning (ML), Cloud infrastructure, Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Internet of things (IoT), are not merely buzz words anymore, meant for geeks and elitist computer professionals. It has already touched the daily lives of the common man in a thousand ways and will continue to transform the way we live and work in the foreseeable future. The key question then is what kind of skills are required for the IT jobs of the future, where most of the repetitive tasks will find BOT’s doing it better and more efficiently, most of the analysis done by a