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Apple macOS' Books app is not showing the PDFs which are synced using iCloud

Today a very strange thing happened. The Apple macOS' Books app wasn't showing all the hundred PDFs that I have stored in it. Interestingly I could access those in my iPhone. I tried openin gthe Books app several time which didn't make a difference. Finally I had to restart my machine and I could see all the PDFs in the Books app. A relief for sure and hoping this strange experience would be useful for the readers. 

 

 

Quotes and mantras about life, business and everything else from all over

Often I come across interesting quotes/ phrases and what not. Some of them are worth sharing so here they are:

The great debate on if you should include many people in your emails or not

Do you include a lot of people in your emails and receive feedback that you shouldn't do that due to ESG considerations or if that leads to inbox clutter? 

Here are some reasons why you should include colleagues in your emails:

1. There are times when colleagues hate it that you don't keep them in loop even when they don't have any actionables as they want to feel part of the project and stay informed about each and every step of what's happening in the project. 

100 Use Cases of ChatGPT - Artificial Intelligence

There are countless use cases of ChatGPT or Artificial Intelligence. Here are hundred top use-cases of ChatGPT -

1. Digitalizing hand notes/ diaries - While major softwares aren't very efficient in digitalising hand writing, ChatGPT can help in digitalizing at higher accuracy which would greatly reduce the time spent in correcting the erroneous reading done by majority of solutions.

 

Always take backups on regular cadence to avoid any data loss!

Every avid #macOS user must use the native app Time Machine to take regular backups of their machine. Time Machine takes the backup of the entire machine as and when it is connected with Time Machine Hard disk and takes hourly backup of your device if it stays connected with your machine.

Hard drives crashes randomly which at times can lead to critical data loss. If you are someone for whom data is more valuable than the machine itself, then invest in a new Hard disk and use it as your Time Machine Hard disk.\

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macOS users should start using Time machine app to take backups

Every avid #macOS user must use the native app Time Machine to take regular backups of their machine. Time Machine takes the backup of the entire machine as and when it is connected with Time Machine Hard disk and takes hourly backup of your device if it stays connected with your machine.

Hard drives crashes randomly which at times can lead to critical data loss. If you are someone for whom data is more valuable than the machine itself, then invest in a new Hard disk and use it as your Time Machine Hard disk.

Being prudent about future - diary written on 26 Jan 2017

Some rules to follow - adapted/ inspired from https://www.investopedia.com/articles/younginvestors/08/millionaire-mind...

1. Stop senseless spending - live a disciplined lifestyle and budget.

2. Fund Retirement plan - The sooner you start it, more money would compound resulting in massive corpus.

Everything about GMAT that I know

In the classic GMAT (available until Jan'2024), there used to be four sections - 

  • Analytical Writing Assessment (30 minutes)
  • Integrated Reasoning (30 minutes)
  • Quantitative (62 minutes)
  • Verbal (65 minutes)

GMAT Learnings and Strategies I read from the internet

A thousand and one learnings of Gaurang

We are what we do and often while doing a gazallion things, we do a thousand things wrong which leads to a thousand learnings as well. I am documenting my learnings here so that you don't have to commit those:

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