On one cold January evening in 2018, I wrote a blogpost on an impulse. I then chose a simple WordPress theme and published that post. The next day, I wrote another post. The day after that, I wrote another. 1000 posts later, I find myself here.
Growing up, I always…
We live in the 21st century — at the very pinnacle of human progress. Just 150 years back, average life expectancy in the world was 30 years, compared to 72 years today. Less than 10 percent of humanity lives in extreme poverty. Average income in the world, which stood at…
In 1990, Elizabeth Newton conducted a simple experiment, which earned her a PhD in psychology from Stanford.
She organized volunteers into two groups — “tappers” and “listeners”. She gave each tapper one among 25 popular songs. The tapper had to communicate this song to the listener by tapping on a…
Over the last twenty years, the software industry has transformed itself to innovate at lightning speed.
Amazon and Google refresh their websites several hundred times a day. Way back in 2011, Amazon’s mean time between refreshes, was 11.6 seconds. These tech giants operate like large organisms, constantly renewing and upgrading…
Do you feel that you do not write enough?
Peter Thiel’s popular interview question for hiring new entrepreneurs is “What important truth do very few people agree with you on?” I’ll take a shot at answering it shortly.
The act of writing has limitless potential. Adam Grant talks about how…
We live in a society that is obsessed with setting and achieving goals.
Our biggest corporations have quarterly and annual performance targets. Best-selling books advice us to begin with the end in mind - by defining a goal as clearly as possible and imagining how its outcomes would unfold. …
I have been posting everyday for the last 50 days. What started off as an experiment has turned into a habit. Here are three lessons that I have learnt along the way:
1. There is no dearth of ideas — When I started off, I was anxious that I would…
What does it mean to translate to another language? One year after moving to Germany and working in German, I can try and answer that.
In India, my learning happened mostly through reading or listening. I was learning German using its English translations in a remote setting. If I read…
It is sheer joy to receive a well written personal email. I received one this week and thought about what goes into creating written communication that moves us. Among various reasons, the most important aspect of meaningful written communication is the effort involved in crafting it.
This effort could be…
There are often wide chasms between the engineers who understand the power of their technology and the businessmen who could use it profitably. This chasm was bridged by Bob Metcalfe when he was pitching the value of his invention.
Bob Metcalfe had invented the Ethernet and was marketing it using…
