Deconstruction and Reconstruction

Before the start of each year, I take a few weeks in December to plan what my focus should be for the next year and what I want to achieve in the next year. And I start the first day of the year equipped with this list of goals and a plan to achieve them.

Happiness

Breaking down the definition of happiness, it has four components (as the agreed definition of happiness by most scientists today:

1. Positive emotion
2. Joy and contentment on a typical day
3. Not feeling sustained negative emotions…

Are you upgrading your Stack?

If you work in Tech, you would know what a Tech Stack is. It is simply a set of tools for implementing some intended IT idea. It consists of programming languages, frameworks, libraries, various development tools and programming approaches themselves. The combination of all of…

The tipping point

There is criticism about the Indian education system pushing a lot of kids towards studying Medicine and Engineering while alternate streams, let alone other career streams that are non-academic oriented, are not just not encouraged, but are actively discouraged.

Judgment calls

When we see certain data, what do we do with it? Do we identify gaps where we need to capture more data? Do we draw patterns and draw insights? Do we determine our next actions based on what we see? Do we ignore it altogether?

Process and Retrospectives

A retrospective is part of the Agile development methodology used at a lot of Tech companies where a team looks back and reflects at regular intervals to identify the things that went well for the team during that period, the things that didn’t go so well and can be improved upon…

Correlation and Causation

When we set out on a certain path, we look at others who have done something similar before us in a successful way, both to draw inspiration and to learn what led to their success so that we can replicate it ourselves.

Scarcity

If you only had two hours on the Internet each day, what would you do with it? For comparison, I use over twelve hours of Internet each day for everything from connecting with friends, listening to podcasts, doing my work, etc.

A good system

We put systems in place for a lot of things.

Companies do it for hiring, for promotions, for making launch decisions, etc. Families do it for deciding where to go out or where to go on vacation, how to manage their bills, how to do their chores, etc. And individuals do it for…

Tools

We, as a species, are where we are today because of our incredible ability to keep building ourselves better and better tools to let us do infinitely more than our physical bodies alone can manage.

We started by building tools to hunt, gather, store, protect us from the elements and defend…