Product & Flow

3 Topics I Am Exploring In My Life Right Now

Writing, Bayesian Probability, Working with suppressed emotions If you know me well, I am usually signed up for an online course, reading a book. The following 30-ish blogs will be homework for a new course that I enrolled in called...read topic 1 for more information. There are three topics

Productivity

The easiest method to build habits: The Jerry Seinfeld Streak Method

How to easily track build and track habits using Google sheets My favorite comedian is Jerry Seinfeld. I fondly remember sitting with one of my closest friends and watching “Seinfeld” episodes every evening after work. My friend and I had been roommates in college in India. We had gone our

happiness

Feeling alive: Embrace mini-adventures through the day

Do adventures have to be grand? About a year ago, I embarked on a project to write a book. The book is about the lessons I learned from my dog, Spock. It is about how the lives of animals offer profound lessons that mirror ones from philosophy and ones you

Entrepreneurship

Interview with Gurudev Karanth: CEO of OutOfTheBlue.ai

Bootstrapping data startups: Creativity + Adventure spirit is the way out of the "lack of early data" desert (You can see the podcast on the link below) Interview with Gurudev Karanth: CEO of OutOfTheBlue.aiBootstrapping data startups: Creativity + Adventure spirit is the way out of the “lack of early

Meditation

Be a boat - A zen philosophy to navigate the currents in life

Go with the flow—Life lessons from my dogAbout a year ago, I embarked on a project to write a book. The book is about the lessons I learned from my dog, Spock. It is about how the lives of animals offer profound lessons that mirror ones from philosophy and

Entrepreneurship

Clarifying your value proposition

Pitch to someone outside your domain to get a new perspective I had the opportunity to engage with a host from outside the software development world during a recent podcast. My podcast host had prepped on my website, and he had honed in on the value proposition. “80% of your

AI

Interview with Kohsuke Kawaguchi - co-CEO Launchable Inc and creator of Jenkins

Gradient descending through life, work, and entrepreneurship "Sell, Design & Build" – evergreen advice for aspiring entrepreneurs An investigator walks into a murder scene only to find that it is a case of multiple homicides and that murders aren't the handiwork of a single murderer, but there

Entrepreneurship Featured

An Entrepreneur's Swiss Army Knife

Staying curious, adaptable, and learning continuously. Most of the podcast discussed the challenges of scaling as an entrepreneur, particularly prioritizing the important over the urgent.

Meditation Featured

Finding Solace in Gratitude—The Birth of My Online Meditation Course

Beating Stress, Anxiety, and Finding Joy Last November (2023), amidst the festive spirit, I wanted to give back and embarked on a journey I hadn't anticipated. It began with me offering an online beginner meditation retreat—a small gesture to share meditation's profound and life-changing benefits

Meditation

I am offering my first meditation retreat - join me

Here is something that I have thought of offering for a while. EventsThe Gratitude Path: A free Online Weekend Meditation Retreat at Home - Dec 9, 16 and 23. An Hourly Beginners Meditation Series for better stress management. When Dec 9, Dec 16 and Dec 23rd. 3 x One Hour

Meditation

Explore the Marvel Within: A 10-minute Gratitude Meditation Series 🌟

Dive into our gratitude meditation series designed to celebrate and appreciate the marvels of the human body. From the senses to the nervous system, and from the digestive to the cardiovascular system, each guided meditation offers a unique journey of mindfulness and gratitude.

Meditation

From Bite to Energy: A guided meditation appreciating our digestive system

Experience gratitude for your digestive system with our 10-minute guided meditation. Join us in thanking each organ for its vital role in transforming food into energy.

Meditation

Embracing Our Five Senses - A Gratitude Meditation Journey

Discover the transformative power of gratitude with our 10-minute meditation focused on appreciating the five senses. This guided journey helps you connect deeply with your body, enhancing mindfulness and grounding you in the present.

Meditation

Thanking your cardiovascular system—an exercise in gratitude meditation

Embrace a journey of gratitude through your cardiovascular system with our 10-minute meditation. Explore and appreciate your heart, arteries, veins, capillaries, and blood, enhancing inner peace and mindfulness.

Meditation

Discovering Inner Harmony: A Gratitude Meditation Journey Through the Nervous System

Embark on a transformative 10-minute gratitude meditation journey, delving deep into the marvels of your nervous system. Enhance mindfulness, reduce stress, and foster inner peace with our expertly guided session. Explore my blog and YouTube channel for a holistic meditation experience.

Product interview for Issue Triage

Reaching out to my developer and quality engineering friends. At Launchable, I am working on a problem typically called "Issue or Bug Triaging". The phase in software delivery where the code has been pushed and testing (typically post-merge) has uncovered a bunch of issues. Now, begins the challenge

Meditation

Achievement unlocked - Enlightenment attained

Should I talk about this? This has been a question that I have struggled with in the last couple of months. I felt, and continue to feel, incredibly vulnerable sharing the “this” in the picture. The “this” is that I had my awakening and am now enlightened, having transitioned about

2022 PICT96 "jab we met" reunion recap

The idea for the reunion started in my living room—as a side conversation. We were trying to distract Natasha from an incredibly stressful week. My mother-in-law had passed away about a week or two earlier. We still were walking through the logistics of her funeral and working on getting

Meditation

Assessing 26 years of meditation practice

The last 90 days have been tumultous. I reluctantly accepted that my meditation practice stuttered in the years of covid. I have been talking to myself (& others) as though my practice was all fine but it wasn't. I had skipped way more days than I actually practiced

health

Cycling (virtually) Milan to Venice

Early last year, I was thinking about picking up some way to exercise regularly. My last hiking trip to Everest Base Camp was too far in the past and I wanted to set an exciting goal. I decided to pick up cycling. I was an avid cycler in school days

Entrepreneurship Featured

Building a startup — 9 lessons from my hike to Everest Base Camp

We were completely tired after a 6 hour hike to Phakding (8.6k feet). Crushed is a better description. It was the end of day 1 — the easiest hiking day and mostly downhill. The hardest part was supposed to be landing at the Lukla airport (9.3k feet) considered as

Entrepreneurship

Get Shit Done days - making time for deep work

I sighed with resignation as I looked at my completely packed calendar. “Quality” work delivered between meetings or after work, juggling email and slack responses while doing so. I had become a highly paid email and task traffic handler — routing tasks than doing them. Anything that took a reasonable amount

Productivity

3% flywheel method - a system to make daily progress on goals

T’is is the season for setting goals. If you set goals and struggle to achieve them then I have a system that sets a flywheel of momentum going and helps you achieve these goals. The approach was tested in 2020 and has held up fairly well for me. It

Entrepreneurship

Building differentiation - a mental model

Lately, I am reading a book called Different: Escaping the Competitive Herd by Youngme Moon. The book writes about why intense competition begets homogeneity. The writing resonated with me and wrote this note for my Zettlekasten. Examples heavily inspired by the author (all credit to her). When you measure something,

Meditation

Using a rubber band to become positive

Someone close to me is going through tough times. His health is not where it used to be and trips to the doctors are wearing him down. I can see a downward spiral as his morale dips down with each new trip to the doctor. Negative thoughts reproduce themselves faster