😎 Two years of Swag for Developers
Exactly two years ago, swag-for-dev blew up on Product Hunt! It was quite a roller-coaster experience for me. This is a follow-up post to this. Year-2...
📚 Book Notes: Shoe Dog
Loved the candid account of everyday struggles. It’s motivating to see someone’s behind-the-scenes (while the system tends to focus only on the highlight-...
🤝 The OEPS Framework of Giving Feedback
You’re 99.99% guaranteed to not like every single part of every single person. But don’t let this discourage you. To become good friends / have a good...
📚 Book Notes: The Obstacle is the Way
Could’ve been a blog post. 🤷♂️ Here are my notes from The Obstacle is the Way: Objectivity means removing “you” — the subjective part — from the equation....
🎤 Submit that CFP right now!
What if it gets rejected? Oh, but my dear, what if it doesn't? In life, you have to ask for things. Nobody is going to know your potential unless you put in...
📚 Book Notes: Indistractable
I liked the part on raising indistractable children. Rest was skippable - I’ve already learnt these over the years; would’ve been super helpful 5 years ago!...
👼 Early Retirement
I have given a lot of thought into this: What do I want? Freedom. Freedom to do things without worrying about money. And the logical conclusion follows: Earn...
🎉 Life is too short not to experiment. #HappyNewYear2020
I have been setting yearly themes from the last few years. Last year, it was "Create More, Consume Less". This year, it's "Life is too short not to...
🧘 Year in Review 2019
This is the first time I’m making my annual review public! What went well? I started journaling. Wrote 247 entries last year. Reading them again for this...
🧙 Want to Read More? Join a Book Club!
I had a goal of reading 25 books in 2016 but failed. The gap was so large (I couldn't even read 10!) that I almost gave up on reading. I had a goal of...
📚 Book Notes: The War of Art
Have you experienced a vision of the person you might become, the work you could accomplish, the realized being you were meant to be? Are you a writer who...
💌 Inbox Zero
After reading Getting Things Done by David Allen, here are the changes I incorporated in my daily workflow: Inbox Zero I archived 50k+ unread emails in...
📚 Book Notes: Getting Things Done - The Art of Stress-free Productivity
If you feel like you have too many tasks on your plate, this book is for you! After implementing GTD in my life, I felt like some burden had been lifted off....
🌱 Plant Seeds Strategically
If you take-away one thing from this newsletter, let it be this! Plant seeds strategically. Figure out your long-term goals and move in baby steps towards...
📚 Book Notes: Nudge - Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
Here are my notes from Nudge - Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness: Simply by rearranging the cafeteria, Carolyn was able to increase or...
🎖️ Keeping Track of your Little Wins in Life
When the number of things that I wanted to keep tabs on increased, manually checking them started becoming a chore! How do you keep track of your little...
📚 Book Notes: The Happiness Hypothesis - Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
A 4/10 for me, it didn’t have anything new, and I probably slept a couple of times while reading this book! Here are my notes from The Happiness Hypothesis -...
🔥 Were we let in for our looks? No. Will we be judged on them? Yes.
The Nudge On one fine morning of our final semester, we got an email asking us to fill some details for use in the graduation certificate. There was a black-...
📚 Book Notes: Nonviolent Communication - A Language of Life
I’d rate this book as my second best among the ones I read this year, after The Mom Test. This teaches you a valuable life-skill of dealing with conflict in...
🎓 The Art of Being a Good Mentee
The fastest path on your growth journey is getting a good mentorship in place. I have been fortunate to have learnt a lot of things from the masters...