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Countering decision fatigue

Entrepreneurship

Countering decision fatigue

If you ever held a job that requires you to drive long distances or hop into trains switch to a cab etc etc, you surely have noticed that you arrive tired at work. But that’s not all, there is something more insidious that is going below the surface — you

Ode to a hero - Baahubali Sanskrit song - delightful

Ode to a hero - Baahubali Sanskrit song - delightful

While growing up in India, I chose French in school over Sanskrit. Twenty years later, my niece made the same choice despite me persuading her not to. Why does an Indian kid with little chance of living in France choose French over his/her native language? Perhaps, we’ve been

Calming down the nerves with Aana Paana meditation

Calming down the nerves with Aana Paana meditation

Having a stressful day at work? If so, use the Aana Paana meditation as your go-to technique to find your calm and centre and deal with your day. It takes about 10 minutes to centre you. Stressful work day - anyone? Have you noticed that our modern workday is designed

Chasing Turiya - the fourth state of consciousness

Chasing Turiya - the fourth state of consciousness

I believe the audience for this blog in the world is a grand total of less than a couple of dozen and fewer who would understand the desire to chase Turiya - I frankly don’t understand it myself :-). Thus, I am documenting this as a reminder to myself

Lotus heart meditation - end of the day meditation practice

Lotus heart meditation - end of the day meditation practice

The Lotus heart meditation calms your nerves, addresses insomnia and helps adjust to jet-lag. Let’s how you can bring this technique in to your life. I am on a mission to prove to people that meditation is easier than they think it is. Most individuals have an unrealistic definition

The gratitude habit - the one thing to make your day productive

The gratitude habit - the one thing to make your day productive

(Photo credit: Tom Woodward) In the last blog, I gave a very quick lay of the land of meditation. In this blog, I will get you started quickly. So quickly and so easily that you will wonder why you haven’t done meditation in the past! Disclaimer: This blog essentially

Beginners guide to meditation

Beginners guide to meditation

Recently, a couple of my closest friends have been recommended to start meditation from their physician as a means for improving their general well-being. My friends asked me a few questions about it and the line of questioning leads me to believe that it is highly likely that they are

Understanding neural networks - a dog lovers primer

Understanding neural networks - a dog lovers primer

Let’s look at a problem: I am a dog lover and I subscribe to Instagram where I get a stream of images of toasters, birds, cats and dogs. While these images are exciting (who doesn’t like toasters :-)), what I want to do, is automatically save images of

Discovering what customers really want

Entrepreneurship

Discovering what customers really want

Recently I wrote 2 blogs (tell me more, be an intern) talking about tips to conduct an effective customer/prospect interview for product managers. This blog wraps up the tail end of that series. One of the most effective power questions is “What else is on your mind”. I picked

Teaching a program to paint like an artist

Teaching a program to paint like an artist

There are some things that completely blow your mind. Applying artist specific styles to images is one of them. Completely sci-fiction - although the Prisma filter has made this accessible. In the last blog [http://harpreetsingh.github.io/blog/2017/01/28/deeplearning-udacity-setup], I set up the core software requirements

The power of tell me more question for Product Managers

Entrepreneurship

The power of tell me more question for Product Managers

20 Jan 2017 Finding the right problem, its details, from customer interviews are similar to finding an address in India. A problem while looking for an address in India is that neighbourhoods are congested and the roads are not labeled. One uses landmarks to reach to the right area, find

Conducting great customer interviews - Be an intern

Product Management

Conducting great customer interviews - Be an intern

Last week, I visited a CloudBees customer with Kohsuke Kawaguchi (Jenkins’ founder) to interview them. The goal was to understand their key challenges and concerns. Over the years, Kohsuke and myself have done innumerable customer interviews together and somewhere along the way we have hit on a formula that makes

Escape the Iron Triangle - ship better software faster and cheaper with Jenkins Pipelines

Escape the Iron Triangle - ship better software faster and cheaper with Jenkins Pipelines

Delivering software continuously, in other words “keeping software in an always shippable state” is a challenge for companies. Recently released Jenkins 2.0, is focussed on solving this problem through Pipelines. This blog gives a quick overview of key benefits of Jenkins Pipelines. Executive Summary Software delivery in any organisation

Jenkins 2.0: Makes it easy for organisations to deliver software continuously

Jenkins 2.0: Makes it easy for organisations to deliver software continuously

28 Apr 2016 I have spent the last 3 years of my life helping Jenkins claim its place upfront and central in the Continuous Delivery market. The journey first started by providing first class support for CD pipelines through Jenkins Pipelines and has culminated in the first major release of