🎉 Live In the moment. #HappyNewYear2022
One of my major realizations last year has been that life is too short to have regrets and lowering expectations is the key to a happy life. My theme for...
🧘 Year in Review 2021
This is the third time I’m making my annual review public! What went well? I continued journaling (wrote 224 entries this year compared to 302 entries in...
🧘 Weekly Meditation Challenge
I recently read Tribe of Mentors. One thing that stood out to me was the emphasis on meditation throughout, every other interviewee had mentioned it! And so,...
💪 Monthly Reading Challenge
This is a follow-up to 🏫 Reading Academy for Everyone. While starting out, monthly goals can be more effective than annual ones. With this in mind, we’re...
🤓 Year in Books 2021
I completed my annual reading goal of 2021. My plan was to read one book for satisfying my curiosity, one that directly helps me in business, and one that...
📚 Book Notes: Tribe of Mentors
I picked this up to get book recommendations for next year. One thing that stood out to me was the emphasis on meditation throughout, every other interviewee...
🪄 Dumbledore’s Army (Collaborative Learning Community)
What can sit between MOOCs and CBCs? Something like Dumbledore's Army - a group learning on their own with a community manager. Accountability comes from...
📚 Book Notes: On Writing
You need to read a lot and write a lot. There's no other way to become a great writer. Here are my notes from On Writing: 1. Let's get one thing clear right...
🦥 Going Slow Podcast
One of my friends pinged me recently for a casual podcast. To get out of our comfort zones. Talk about our love of freedom and curiosity. And to have fun....
📚 Book Notes: Founders at Work
It's okay to make mistakes while starting out; you can figure things out on the way. Props to Jessica for probing at all the right places. Here are my notes...
🧠 My 12 Favorite Problems
If nobody calls your vision arrogant, you’re probably not thinking big enough. Your favorite problems can be anything — related to your work life, scientific...
📚 Book Notes: Bird by Bird
Anne talks candidly about the insecurities you feel while writing, especially when your early drafts are bound to be shitty. Here are my notes from Bird by...
🏋️ Losing Weight as a Vegetarian: One Year Later
This is a follow-up to 🏋️ Losing Weight as a Vegetarian. So I’ve been working on fitness lately. Thought I’d give a progress update! Over the last year, I’ve...
📚 Book Notes: The $100 Startup
Some key takeaways for me were to give people the fish (not many people want to learn how to fish), that you usually don't get paid for your hobby itself but...
🦚 On Friends, From Mahabharata
I watched Mahabharata with family in the last 3 months. The new Star Plus version. My mom picked out two takeaways on friends: Have a friend like Karna, who...
📚 Book Notes: The Science of Storytelling
If you want to write a story, read this book. It is one of the densest books I've read so far, with a lot of great examples. This is going into my rereading...
💪 1000 Days of Reading
There have been a handful of step functions in my life. One of them was building a reading habit. Today marks day 1000 from when I consciously made a...
📚️ Book Notes: High Output Management
Training is the manager's job. Along with motivation. Your management style should change with the task-relevant maturity, going from hands-on to high-level...
🛹 Slipstreaming in Life via CBCs
This is a follow-up to 🔥 Meetups are dead. Enter Mastermind Groups! I had mentioned 4 key ingredients of a successful mastermind group in the above post....
📚️ Book Notes: Freakonomics
It felt like individual blog posts, which can be compressed to a tenth of their size. Here are my notes from Freakonomics: 1. How did Roe v. Wade help...