🧑🎓 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...