📚 Book Notes: Made to Stick - Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
Here are my notes from Made to Stick - Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die: Bits Have you ever noticed that our friends’ friends have much more interesting...
🎲 Slice 'n' Dice
Some tips on making steady progress towards your goals: Slice and Dice Want to do 100 push-ups? Set a goal of 50 first. If that's too difficult, aim for 20!...
📚 Book Notes: Hooked - How to Build Habit-Forming Products
Here are my notes from Hooked - How to Build Habit-Forming Products: 79 percent of smartphone owners check their device within 15 minutes of waking up every...
🥳 Advice to Younger Me
This is me trying to summarize my 25 years of learnings, most of which I learnt the hard way. Things I wish I knew sooner Set goals that scare you. Seek...
📚 Book Notes: Factfulness - Ten Reasons We're Wrong About The World and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
Here are my notes from Factfulness - Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About The World and Why Things Are Better Than You Think: Bits Over the past twenty years, the...
⚔️ A Personal Assistant to Maximize your Productivity
I have been playing around with task management apps for some time now. I needed a reliable system that would prioritize the important things and allow me to...
📚 Book Notes: The Design of Everyday Things
Here are my notes from The Design of Everyday Things: The best products do not always succeed. Brilliant new technologies might take decades to become...
💭 How accurately can you remember distant memories?
When you remember a past event, you are actually remembering the last time you remembered it. ^ This is very true except for (rare) people with photographic...
📚 Book Notes: Sapiens - A Brief History of Humankind
Sapiens is a book that can overload you with lots of relevant information in a very short amount of time. It makes you self-aware, if that makes sense. I...
✍️ Write tests. Not too many. Mostly integration.
This is an impromptu post, as I got one-upped by the lack of proper testing yesterday. “If you don’t have tests, how do you know your code is doing the right...
📚 Book Notes: Deep Work - Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
"Cal Newport" is one of my favorite authors. His book "So Good They Can't Ignore You" has profoundly affected my views on work-life. It remains THE book that...
🔑 Password Manager w/o a Master Password
I always wanted to use a password manager, owing to security concerns like Password Reuse and Password Strength. Tried a couple of them (including LastPass)...
📚 Book Notes: Thinking, Fast and Slow
I recently came across a service that enables you to subconsciously influence a specific person, by controlling the content on the websites he or she usually...
😎 A year of Swag for Developers
Exactly one year ago, swag-for-dev blew up on Product Hunt! It was quite a roller-coaster experience for me. I had created the repo a day before to scratch...
📚 Book Notes: Zero to One - Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
Here are my notes from Zero to One - Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future: Bits What important truth do very few people agree with you on? The...
🚧 Building the first Indian Vue.js Community
This is a reflection on our journey so far in organizing Vue.js meetups. The road was not easy to travel, but we’re glad we did! Vue is a progressive...
📚 Book Notes: Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!
Here are my notes from Surely you’re Joking Mr Feynman: Adventures of a Curious Character: Learn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is...
😇 Misty Dreams
It was a normal day in your normal life, until... You got run over while riding your bicycle. Every inch of your body hurt. A lot. And then it all stopped....
📚 Book Notes: Atomic Habits
I recently joined The Startup Book Club, where we read one of the books most recommended by startup founders, tech pioneers, and indie makers every two...
⚡ Intercept vs Slope
This is one of those pieces of advice I give my juniors. On the graph of learnings (Y-axis) vs time (X-axis), it doesn't matter how much you already know...