Prashanth Udupa on December 22nd, 2010

I found the following 3-part lecture on Sartre given by Robert Soloman. The lecture talks about Sartre’s view on Facticity, Transcendence and Bad-Faith.

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Prashanth Udupa on December 3rd, 2010

Seems really convincing!

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Prashanth Udupa on November 29th, 2010

Consider an abstract conversation between Suresh and Ramesh. Suresh: Mr. Ramesh, what do you do? Ramesh: I am a project manager at Infosys. Suresh: That’s great! So tell me Mr. Ramesh, what did you want to be when you were a kid? Ramesh: I wanted to be a pilot! Suresh: Nice! And perhaps something happened [...]

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Prashanth Udupa on November 16th, 2010

THE ‘Werner Erhard’ descended upon 1000+ people at the Yogi Sabhagruh auditorium (behind Swamy Narayan Temple, Dadar-E) in Mumbai yesterday at 7 PM. Every one of the attendees there were either ‘est’ or ‘Landmark Forum’ graduates. I was able to spot one Landmark Forum leader: Ms. Arunaraje and several seminar leaders including the famous actor [...]

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Prashanth Udupa on November 9th, 2010

Parking in Bangalore is an absolute stress. You never know if the parking space is available. Even if you do get a space to park the car, you never know if it will be safe there. (Although to be honest, it has been safe by and large). However, I just saw on YouTube an awesome [...]

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Prashanth Udupa on October 12th, 2010

Werner Erhard is the creator of transformational models and applications for individual, organizational and social transformation. His innovative ideas have stimulated academic conversations at many Universities, most recently in the areas of integrity, leadership, and performance. A brief history: Content derived from Wikipedia entries on ‘Werner Erhard’ and ‘Erhard Seminars Training’ Werner Erhard was known [...]

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Prashanth Udupa on October 11th, 2010

For most of us Integrity is about being sincere and honest. And “honesty is the best policy”. And sincerity is about being good and true to oneself. We keep going down that road and eventually land up discussing about morality and ethics in the name of Integrity. Following are relavent excerpts from an Interview with [...]

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Prashanth Udupa on October 11th, 2010

When we go about the world, we have expectations which are often not fulfilled. For example, I go to meet an old friend. I imagine that he will be happy to see me after all these years and that we chat for hours sharing about our lives. I go there and I find that he [...]

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Prashanth Udupa on July 21st, 2010

About two weeks ago we bought a 40×60 site in Shimoga, right next to my father in law’s plot. The site is in a good location. We hope to construct our house in there in about 10 years time and move there in about 15 years time. One of the top thoughts in my wife’s [...]

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Prashanth Udupa on May 23rd, 2010

Yesterday, my wife and I joined Murali, Meera and two other friends (Charan and Krishnakumar) on a bike-trip to Skandagiri. We started from Murali’s house at 5:00 AM. By 7:15 we had reached Nandigrama – a village near Nandi hills. We had breakfast there and from there we continued our journey to Skandagiri. By 8 [...]

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