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		<title>The ChatGPT Trap: How Shallow Prompts Can Derail Big Life Decisions</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2025 18:03:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[People are making big life decisions based on bad AI prompts. This piece shows how thoughtful prompting can turn ChatGPT into a real thinking partner.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>–Examining Gandhi…</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[On 2nd October 2024, Gandhi’s 155th birth anniversary, a popular social media personality, Mr. Anand Ranganathan posted a video on Twitter and Instagram that seemed to celebrate the occasion. However,&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>–Examining Gandhi…</title>
		<link>https://harshadoak.com/2018/01/family/ajay-oak-made-of-sugar-spice-and-everything-nice.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jan 2018 18:31:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I am writing this as I mourn the loss of my cousin, Ajay Oak. He was trekking in the mountainous Ladakh region of India. He tragically passed away at Leh&#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Evolution, Science &amp; Education in India</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jan 2018 02:45:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I have always admired how Indians seemed to have accepted and understood evolution better than most developed nations. I used to attribute it to Indian belief systems being more flexible&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Vaishnava Jana To… A good man is one who feels another’s pain, shares another’s sorrow</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Oct 2017 08:26:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[On Gandhi&#8217;s birth anniversary (2nd October), thought of writing this quick post about one of Gandhi&#8217;s favourite hymns.  A hymn that also often helps me form an opinion and decide&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Oracle Java Cloud Service Article In Java Magazine</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Getting Onboard Oracle Java Cloud Service&#8221; . My article about the Oracle Java Cloud Service in the latest Java Magazine issue (June 2016) . My earlier Java Cloud articles in&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow. Dealing With Hair Loss &amp; Balding</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2015 13:45:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a saying that the information that we think is most private to us and of little use to others, is in fact most useful to others! So although it&#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Get Started With The Oracle Developer Cloud Service</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2015 06:09:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Get Started With The Oracle Developer Cloud Service. My article about the Oracle Developer Cloud Service from the Jan-Feb 2015 issue of Java Magazine.]]></description>
		
		
		
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