I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else
It was a cold December morning and I pulled my scarf up. Dad and I were on an adventure. Dad said a two wheeler would work better to navigate the narrow roads. He was right. We had to stop every few metres to ask for directions – in an era when navigation didn’t exist. My …
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Get more done in 2 hours than most folks get through in a day How to use Temptation Bundling to get your top 3 things done. Here is something I use that is tried and tested – the Bundle of 5 technique #1 Start your day with a 10 min timer. List out stuff you …
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Have you wondered why we work 40 hour work weeks? As recent as early 1900’s, industrial era worked clocked in close to 100 hours. What drove the change in standards? I was listening to Rory Sutherland‘s brilliant interview in the podcast – Diary of the CEO, where he called out this quirky fact In 1926, …
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“This is the problem with living in the 21st century. … We are made to feel poor on thirty thousand pounds a year. To feel old if we have a wrinkle. To feel ugly if we aren’t photoshopped and filtered. No one I knew in the 1600s wanted to find their inner billionaire. They just …
Two Women who break stereotypes. One, a Spy. And Two World Wars between them. Based on the enthralling historical account of the ‘queen of spies’, French secret agent who went by the Pseudonym, Alice Dubois ended up running a network of 100+ agents The book takes creative liberty with new characters entwined within this and …
Book # Title 1/52 The Psychology of Money 2/52 The Midnight Library 3/52 The Promised Land – Barack Obama 4/52 The Kabuliwalla – Rabindranath Tagore 5/52 The Henna Artist 6/52 The Last Queen 7/52 Tiny Habits 8/52 The Push 9/52 Greenlights 10/52 The man who solved the market 11/52 Think again, Adam Grant 12/52 Alchemy …
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“Stop comparing your inside view with someone else’ outside” I was listening to Omer Khan’s SaaS podcast featuring ThoughtExchange’s CEO, Dave Macleod. Dave had once stopped reading Tech Crunch. Why? To avoid seeing fabulous stories of IPO’s and Funding rounds when his company was still trying to get a grapple on their customer segment. You …
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Reflecting on the year that is past, I was thinking about all that I wish to be in the year to come. Not goals, but the person I want to be, the people I want to meet, the things I want to make, ‘dreaming dangerously and outrageously’ and the unknowns I want to step into, …
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My earliest memories of Diwali was being woken up at 4.30 AM by Amma. My brother and I, unlike our usual grumpy morning selves, jumped out of bed eager for the day to begin. We were asked not to open our eyes as she led our blindfolded selves to a pedestal where she …
Book 28/52 2021 Book – An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth: What Going to Space Taught Me About Ingenuity, Determination, and Being Prepared Genre – Science, LifeLessons #reviewswithranjani#podshortschallenge Rating – 4/5 Colonel Chris Hadfield is the first Canadian astrobaut to walk in space. In this highly entertaining book, he uses his years …