🎉 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...
🥺 The Summer of Punk
Tony Khan is my role model. After being a lifelong avid fan of professional wrestling, he started All Elite Wrestling. I love Tony. His passion and love for...
📚️ Book Notes: The Making of a Manager
Your report should never be left wondering: What does my manager think of me? If you think she is the epitome of awesome, tell her. If you don’t think she is...
✅ From Todoist to Things 3 (4/4)
This is a follow-up to ⚔️ A Personal Assistant to Maximize your Productivity. I recently switched my task management workflow from Todoist to Things 3. It...
📚️ Book Notes: Siddhartha
You need to experience a lot to achieve inner peace. Knowledge can be transferred via words, but wisdom must be earned on your own. Here are my notes from...
🧑🌾 Hello, Roam! (3/4)
I have been using Notion for more than 2 years now. With time, I’ve realized that it doesn’t allow cross-pollination of ideas. That’s where Roam Research...
📚️ Book Notes: The E-Myth Revisited
Loved this business novel. It hit me that the sole aim of a small business owner should be to create playbooks that anyone can execute. Here are my notes...
🤓 Spaced Repetition using Readwise (2/4)
We forget most of what we consume in a few days or weeks. The forgetting curve of newly-learned knowledge depends on various factors like how meaningful it...
📚️ Book Notes: Meditations
This is the first book I have left halfway. Life’s too short to spend time on things I know I’m not enjoying. Here are my notes from Meditations: From my...
🦜 Writing from Conversations using Otter.ai (1/4)
Read to collect the dots, write to connect them. - David Perell I have a bunch of dots collected already from reading a lot of books and writing a decent...
📚️ Book Notes: Blue Ocean Strategy
This book provides good frameworks to pursue differentiation at low-cost with lots of case studies. Here are my notes from Blue Ocean Strategy: A compelling...
🌴 Experiences build Your Skill Tree in the Game of Life
Imagine a game where there are no rules and you can do anything. That would be such a boring game, isn’t it? Life is no different from MMORPGs. You can...
📚️ Book Notes: The Selfish Gene
When we die, there are two things we can leave behind us: genes and memes. I enjoyed the rich examples. You should definitely pick this up if you liked...
🧠 You are Who you Choose to Be
Alfred Adler’s thoughts have had a big impact on my thinking. They reinforced my belief that you are who you choose to be and are not bound by your past....
📚️ Book Notes: Playing to Win
My key takeaway was that all successful strategies fall into two buckets: you can provide a commodity at the lowest price or you can differentiate your...
🔮 Read & Dine Cafe
What would you do once you hit your FIRE goals? This question came up in one of the 100+ communities I'm a part of, and it forced me to reflect. Here's my...
📚️ Book Notes: The Courage to be Happy
One of those rare sequels that make you want to read more. I found a lot of parallels with religious texts. Everyone should read this. Here are my notes from...
♾️ The Infinite Power of Reframing
Reframing is changing the way you look at something. It is infinitely powerful. Here are some examples from my life: Imposter syndrome is real. It's a phase;...
📚️ Book Notes: Good Strategy Bad Strategy
It helps you understand what a good strategy looks like, in an unnecessary long text. Here are my notes from Good Strategy Bad Strategy: By September 1997,...
💡 Journal Prompts
Some of you asked for the prompts we used in our app. Here you go! Try and remember any moment from your past and write down as many details as you can. If...
📚️ Book Notes: The Courage to be Disliked
It's the most powerful book I've ever read. The book provides a nice introduction to Adlerian psychology with a unique conversational format between the...
📱 Pocket Journal
I’ve been journaling for the last 6 years and it has been life-changing. I keep getting DMs on how to get started, so I pinged one of my iOS wizard friends...
📚️ Book Notes: The Everything Store
Jeff is an embodiment of long-term thinking. He emphasizes doing what's best for the customer, even if it translates to huge losses in the short term....
📆 Defragmenter for Meetings
Here's my problem: People book 30min meetings with me via Calendly but they are scattered (say one at 4pm, then one at 5pm, another at 6:30pm). I want a...
📚️ Book Notes: The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
The content is really good and crisp - it's just that I had read most of it in bits and pieces already. Here are my notes from The Almanack of Naval...
🤠 The Friendship Experiment
Swapnil Agarwal 🚀 @SwapAgarwal It’s hard to make new friends after college. This comes up as a recurring theme in our @DX_club_ meetups. So @naman_desu and I...
📚️ Book Notes: Steve Jobs
I see a lot of parallels in Jobs and Musk, combining great technology and aesthetic design with a team of A-players. Here are my notes from Steve Jobs: The...
😎 Three years of Swag for Developers
This is a follow-up post to this. Year-3 Updates We had 30k+ unique visitors in the last year. Our Telegram community hit 1k members. We now have a separate...
📚️ Book Notes: The Psychology of Money
This book combined my favorite topic psychology with finance, which I've been subconsciously avoiding for a long time. I got a good definition of freedom -...
📱 Switched to a Smaller Phone
I recently switched phones. Here’s how my habits changed: My media consumption on phone has practically dropped to zero, as it has a smaller screen size (5.4...
📚 Book Notes: The Airbnb Story
By all accounts, Airbnb should not have become this big! The very idea of letting strangers into your home raises eyebrows, but the way they executed it with...