Freezing Thoughts

Earlier this year, the World Economic Forum published a report titled Jobs of Tomorrow: Mapping Opportunity in the New Economy and Society . The report explored the emerging professions that promise to be shape the workforce of tomorrow. It also reviews the shifting focus of employment and the skills that would be expected in the future.  The report presents 7 emerging professional clusters and 96 job roles in those clusters. The key findings indicate that the highest in-demand skills span both technical and cross-functional skills. Another interesting finding is that both digital and human factors will drive the growth of professions. Here is a snapshot look at the emerging clusters and required job skills: URL to the full report:  http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Jobs_of_Tomorrow_2020.pdf Edit: Further to some requests, I am adding here the emerging technological areas in which the above job roles and clusters would fall into. The information ...

Party music. Romantic music. Peaceful music. Workout music.  We ensure there’s a background score to many aspects of life when we feel a need to accentuate the emotion of the activity. And we know it helps. How about sad music ? Heart-wrenching BGM score that we might have heard in a movie, maybe brought us to tears at the movie theater. Is it a thoroughly depressing idea to listen to such music when we’re feeling low or sad ?  Sorrow is yet another normal human emotion we all feel. But somehow, we don’t have a lot of space and scope to process our grief. As much as the phrase “don’t air your dirty laundry” is true, it is also plain idiotic (and unhealthy) to pretend you don’t have any dirty laundry. Maybe you’re going through a difficult phase right now. Maybe you’re dreading an impending misfortune and are helplessly mourning already. Or perhaps, you’re feeling the aftershock of a blast from the past. Maybe all the above! And yet, we all choose to reply with a ‘ Fi...