💯 100 Books Later
I recently completed my 100th book. Here's a quick reflection: I started with self-help, but it gets repetitive real fast. Once you have read 10 or so books,...
📚 Book Notes: The Power of Habit
I now have a solid understanding of the science behind modifying habits. I’d recommend this more than Atomic Habits. Here are my notes from The Power of...
👽️ Personality Types
People are different. Their goals are different. The way they do things is different. If at any point you have tried to guess why someone does something in a...
🎉 Design life for fun! #HappyNewYear2021
2020 was the first year in a long time where I didn’t burn out. I want to keep this sustainability for the long run. My yearly theme serves as a conscious...
🧘 Year in Review 2020
2020 has been a really shitty year. But it has also taught me what I need to be happy. Just the right people around. I’m grateful I got to spend a long time...
📢 Announcing 4DX Cohort!
I experimented with a small group in Dec 2020 on how to go about executing goals. Someone suggested the book “The 4 Disciplines of Execution”. The author,...
🏫 Reading Academy for Everyone
I read 50+ books in 2020. There were days where I just read continuously for hours and hours. I’ve realized that this pace isn’t sustainable for me. I’m...
📚 Book Notes: Purple Cow
Marketing has to be built into the product. A new-age marketer has to understand product design and be involved in it from the very start. Here are my notes...
🧑💻 By Developers; For Developers
GitPitch is a perfect example of a product by developers and for developers. I found it while preparing for my first conference talk. It lets you create...
📚 Book Notes: The Goal
I’m in love with this newfound genre of business novel. It’s non-fiction so it teaches you something while it’s written like fiction so it’s quite easy to...
🧑🎓 Tidbits from Warikoo
I watched one of Ankur Warikoo’s sessions where he dropped some hard-hitting truth bombs. Here are some interesting tidbits: We all know when something’s...
📚 Book Notes: Stumbling on Happiness
Daniel does a great job at explaining why we are so bad at predicting what will make us happy in the first place. Here are my notes from Stumbling on...
🚀 100 Posts Later
I recently sent out the 100th issue of this newsletter. Two years ago, I had started reading books again and I wanted to build a writing habit as well. And...
📚 Book Notes: A Short History of Nearly Everything
I didn't learn much but it was a good refresher of my school days. It's worth noticing that the majority of people who did advance technology had the freedom...
🍰 Forget the Frog, eat Cake instead
A frog is that one thing you have on your to-do list that you have absolutely no motivation to do and that you’re most likely to procrastinate on. In the...
📚 Book Notes: Mindset
My key takeaway is that parents’ praise molds their children’s mindsets. It's a very slippery slope - focusing on outcomes vs efforts can result in quite...
🏋️ Losing Weight as a Vegetarian
I've dipped into fitness at surface level multiple times. I started working out but couldn't sustain it. I even tried Intermittent Fasting for a couple of...
📚 Book Notes: Mastery
The best part about this book is the long-form stories of 10+ people instead of cherry-picked anecdotes. Here are my notes from Mastery: The common...
🔥 Meetups are dead. Enter Mastermind Groups!
If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together. Attending meetup events has been a good way for me to find like-minded people. But...
📚 Book Notes: The Checklist Manifesto
Have you noticed that the construction and aviation industries have very low error rates? Well, it might sound boring but they use checklists! Loaded with...
🕺 Life is easier if you have Pronoia
Pronoia is the feeling that the Universe is conspiring to help you. It's a prevalent theme in one of my favorite novels, The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho. In...
📚 Book Notes: The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Ben goes deep into the struggles a CEO faces on a daily basis. Pick this up (along with The Culture Code) if you’re already running a business or aspire to...
🧠 Building a Second Brain
I’m addicted to cohort-based courses. There’s so many of them already and new ones keep popping up like JavaScript frameworks. Recently, I found another...
📚 Book Notes: On the Shortness of Life
It's a good reminder that life is short, so do things that you love doing. There's no point toiling to acquire things you wouldn't enjoy for long. My main...
🥂 A Spy's Goodbye
The spy’s goodbye is one of the most heartfelt scenes in all of MCU. I’ve been watching Agents of Shield from day one, back when it started in 2013. I loved...
📚 Book Notes: Influence
Robert explains the concepts behind manipulation techniques which are widely in use today. There are some heuristics we use in our everyday life to get by....
🎨 Studio Ghibli
I recently discovered Studio Ghibli movies. That’s when I realized that I’ve been missing out on a lot. The first one I watched was “Kiki’s Delivery...
📚 Book Notes: Tao Te Ching
YMMV Here are my notes from Tao Te Ching: All in the world know the beauty of the beautiful, and in doing this they have (the idea of) what ugliness is; they...
📝 Copy without Citation in Books
Most of my reading happens in the Apple Books app. Whenever I find something that makes me reread it or teaches me something new, I add it to my journal. But...
📚 Book Notes: 12 Rules for Life
Some of the analogies are good. It started out strong but the book is way too long for its content. Here are my notes from 12 Rules for Life: When songbirds...
🧬 Open-Source Sustainability
This is a follow-up post to Lessons Learnt from Open-Source. Maintainer burnout is real. I haven’t been active on open-source for quite a few months now. A...
📚 Book Notes: Prisoners of Geography
This is a good primer on geography and politics. It’s not meant to be read in one sitting; the information can be overwhelming! Keep a map handy for better...
⏩️ Speed Consuming
Let’s start with an exercise. Last week, how many hours of content did you watch on YouTube? Hint: Go to the YouTube app on your phone, tap your profile, and...
📚 Book Notes: Digital Minimalism
Skip the first half! The second half has practical advice to incorporate into your life. I’ve already been doing most of them hence the short post. Here are...
♠️ Bridge Shuffle
Last weekend, I stumbled upon a bridge shuffling tutorial. It looked pretty dope and after watching the video, it seemed easy to pull off as well. I tried it...
📚 Book Notes: Homo Deus
After reading Sapiens last year, I was looking forward to reading this - another thought-provoking one from Harari! Here are my notes from Homo Deus: The...
🔍️ Seek the Context behind the Advice
You might have heard of the phrase “All advice is autobiographical”. There’s a lot of background information which is hidden. I want you to seek the context...
📚 Book Notes: Losing My Virginity
I loved the first half; the second half not so much. The diversity of Branson's businesses and his willingness to try everything once are commendable. Oh...
💯 Organizing AwesomeConf 2020: Motivation and Learnings
If you haven’t read our origin story, you should go check that out first. I’ll wait. This post shares our experience of organizing the second version of...
📚 Book Notes: Antifragile
I really liked the concept of antifragility. Having read The Black Swan, I knew Taleb's style. I find him hard to read but the content is presented in myriad...
✍️ Thank You, Camp NaNoWriMo!
NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month, where participants attempt to write a 50,000-word manuscript during the month of November every year. If...
📚 Book Notes: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
It was a very heavy read. Maybe because it’s a weird mix of fiction and non-fiction. Or maybe because I’m simply not ready for philosophy yet. Here are my...
🔑 Consistency is the Key (4/4)
So you have a goal, skin in the game, and a deadline. What now? We have all read about the compound effect, right? Getting 1% better every day for 365 days...
📚 Book Notes: How to Win Friends & Influence People
I read this again after 3-4 years and still found it fresh. I could relate to many situations where I mishandled them in the past. The ideas presented in...
⏰ Timeboxing (3/4)
You know why your manager creates an artificial deadline? Because it works! It’s easy to get stuck on a task and not seem to make much progress. Your...
📚 Book Notes: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
I avoided this book for the longest time, because the title seemed clickbaity! However, it contains some really great guiding principles for life including...
🎮 Skin in the Game (2/4)
How committed are you? So you have set a goal. Nice! But winners and for the lack of a better term, losers have the same goals. So setting the right goal is...
📚 Book Notes: Remote
Pick this up if you need to convince your manager (or even yourself) on the benefits of remote work, which includes access to the best talent, freedom from...
🌚 Shoot for the Moon (1/4)
Setting the right goal is half the battle won. I’m a big-time advocate of learning by doing. I don’t set a consumption goal; I set a creation goal. Here’s my...
📚 Book Notes: Who Owns the Future?
With more and more jobs getting automated, this book posits an economy of micropayments that compensates people for original material they post to the web....