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The Journey is not so Hard

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  Okay, I know it's old-fashioned to write about Relationships. So what,  I love to write about it. You will definitely imagine or relate this blog with your partner or an Individual or group of people. Let me first remind you one thing. “Healthy relationships are created and not founded” Empathy, Respect, Communication, Appreciation, Trust, Transparency, Efforts, Actions, Gratitude, Understanding, Learning, Giving space, Occasional gifts are some of the key factors which will help in creating a healthy relationship with your preferred ones. Relationships are not meant to be maintained and measured with an Individual only. It can be with friends, children's & family, co-worker’s, business partners, customers, employees, street vendors, barbers, maids etc… Since it is very common between two individuals who are always likely to maintain a long term relationship and make memories together it is highly spoken about and discussed and measured. I am putting my thoughts on it. P...

The Social Dilemma

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  The technology that connects us also divides us! We’re bombarded by negativity every day. It's on the television, social media, and sometimes the gossip on the street. It is also proved that Algorithms in social media promote content that sparks outrage, hate, and amplifies biases within the data that we feed them. Major tech companies have been using targeted advertising since the early 2000s, but things have changed a lot with the advent of the smartphone. Now, instead of a shared family computer, the surveillance capabilities are tied directly to the individual user, allowing for much more data to be collected. Platforms are not just collecting basic demographic information that we willingly provide upon signup; they are tracking every click, every like, every photo, whether we end our post with an exclamation or question mark, and then combining this knowledge with powerful AI. The bigger problem is how the data feeding the underlying algorithms are being used to model and pr...