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Scale: A mental model for better decision making
Should you buy the $600 laptop or the $800 laptop? Is it worth improving your English speaking skills? Should you spend your time going to the gym for an hour or instead spend your time working? As journalist Patrick Ness once said, “We are the decisions we make”. Which if you think about closely, makes…
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Books I bought in 2021 but didn’t read
The books that I bought in 2021, but didn’t read. Excited for what 2022 holds. Atomic Habits – James Clear (link) The Gervais Principle – Venkatesh Rao (link) Autobiography of Malcolm X– Alex Haley and Malcolm X (link) Thoughtful Interaction Design – Jonas Löwgren (link) The Man Who Solved the Market – Gregory Zuckerman (link) Guns Germs and Steel – Jared Diamond (link)…
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Why ‘designing’ isn’t even the main aspect of Product Design
One misconception people often have about design is that design is a feature to make a product look good. Well, yes that is the case but it isn’t the entire thing, its MUCH MUCH more than that. If I have learned anything in the last few months of exploring tech, design and just learning online in…
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Vinyl #1: In Rainbows by Radiohead
I was a little sceptical about writing this at first. Mostly because music is something really really personal, not only to me but for almost every human being. There is a reason why a music album doesn’t come with a “guide” to explain what the meaning and concept of the album is. There is no…
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How writing everyday has helped in improving the way I think
I started this blog back in January with my only intention being to put up the only essay I had ever put a whole week’s of work into, on the internet. I felt that something that took up so much time and effort can’t be just sitting in my computer for me to forget after a week…
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Leveraging technology and media to move mountains
Give me a lever strong enough and a place to stand and I’ll move the earth Archimedes I first heard the word ‘Leverage’ in the Law-drama called Suits where Harvey Spectre says it in context of a corporate settlement deal he’s about to put through. In this context leverage is some valuable idea/item that your…
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What is User Experience Design and why you can’t see it even if you do.
Facebook was born in 2004. YouTube was born in 2005. I was born in 2002. Safe to say that our generation was literally born on the internet and imagining life without it would be impossible. Your movies, your music, your education, your job. When I say everything, I mean EVERYTHING is on the internet today.…
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Why ‘being busy’ is a ridiculous reason for not reading more books
I get it. You’re busy. You have kids. You have a job—maybe two. You probably have online lectures you don’t attend anyway. You have these things you are trying to accomplish. You have to get to the gym. You have a long commute. You have all these projects going on which need your attention With…
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Media Minimalism: Doing More With Less
Here a small piece of ‘news’ for you: You don’t need every bit of information about everything to function like a normal human being. It’s safe to say that an average person gets more notifications on their phone than the number of people they interact with within a day. And that’s not entirely their fault.…
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Messi, Lebron, Warren Buffet and Effective Philanthropy
A few months ago Barcelona lost the Champions League quarter-finals to Bayern Munich. Losing the game aside it was utter humiliation as they saw Bayern trash 8 goals in 90 minutes. Conceding 8 goals is embarrassing for any team but for a club of Barcelona’s stature, it was nothing but disastrous. Lionel Messi, their marquee…
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Tribalism in Sports: Inside the mind of a Superfan
According to a survey, it was found that more than 65% of Europeans associate themselves as a supporter of a sports club. That’s almost 400 million people in Europe alone. And even though I am in no way a European, on a global scale I contribute to this statistic too. I am an Arsenal Football…
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How to Maximize Results while putting in Minimum Effort : The Pareto Principle
It’s funny what an Italian guy who has been dead for over 100 years can teach you, and no, it isn’t putting pineapple on pizza. In the late 1800s, a young Wilfred Pareto, an engineer-turned-economist in his time conducted a socio-economic experiment on probability distribution and found the massive disparity and the inequality of wealth…
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Why Competition is necessary for a Sports Club to survive
Modern Economics is built around free markets. The free market is the mechanism for organizing the production and distribution of goods and services. This primarily works in the sense that anyone can buy and anyone can sell in any manner at any price they choose. The competition in the market between the seller and the…
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