May 2013
10 posts
Money, Wealth And Value
This is a fundamental misunderstanding that many people have about money, and in fact probably stands at the center of why some people are good at making money while others are not.
Here is the thing.
Money is not wealth. Value is.[[MORE]]
Having lots of money doesn’t make you wealthy. Producing lots of value makes you one.
(First, set aside the issues of inherited wealth, or...
Fear and Instinctive Awareness
Warning: Irrelevant facts and random rant ahead. Proceed at your own risk.
I am sure you know how it feels when you take a glimpse of the earth from the top of a very tall building. Or when you look into a valley from the top of a cliff or mountain, standing on the edge.[[MORE]]
Very scary right?
It feels like a million butterflies flying in the stomach. For a millisecond you get that...
“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though...”
– Teddy Roosevelt
A Classic Example Of Hypocricy
In a small town in America, a person decided to open up his bar business, which was right opposite to a church. The church & its congregation started a campaign to block the bar from opening with petitions and prayed daily against his business.[[MORE]]
Work progressed.
However, when it was almost complete and was about to open a few days later, a strong lightning struck the bar and it was...
Happiness And Success
Happiness and Success:
are two different things.
comes and goes. comes back again. stays. goes back.
are relative in nature
appear meaningless after a point.
cannot be compared
changes constantly.
cannot be defined.
depends on little things.
are both a state of mind.
doesn’t define an individual, organization or entity.
You cannot be successful and then happy. You have to be happy...
April 2013
10 posts
“Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than...”
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15 Laws Of Life From Swami Vivekananda
“His words are great music, phrases in the style of Beethoven, stirring rhythms like the march of Handel choruses. I cannot touch these sayings of his, scattered as they are through the pages of books, at thirty years’ distance, without receiving a thrill through my body like an electric shock. And what shocks, what transports, must have been produced when in burning words they...
Some Productivity Techniques That Works For Me
We all have those rough days when it becomes difficult to produce something. You know what needs to be done, you know how it should be done, you know where to begin, how to take it forward but you just can’t do it.
Procrastination, boredom, insecurity, distractions.
More importantly, stress. Stress is a major productivity killer. I have come to realize that “productivity...
“Whenever you are worried, tensed, stressed or feel dejected, just look around....”
– ~ Self.
“Life is without meaning. You bring meaning to it. The meaning of life is...”
– ~ Swiss Miss
Life Lessons Learned From Blogging, Panda and...
Roughly 4 years ago, I started my tiny little website. It just happened that I was curious enough to book a domain name and start writing things I cared about. It was just a try to see if at all things can be built from scratch but then it became my second nature and amazingly, I transformed it into a business I could never dream of.
Two years ago, on this day, Apr 11, 2011, the going got a...
To Figure Out What You're Good At, Explore →
Just like you can’t actively decide what you’re good at, Christopher Columbus didn’t sit around in his Spanish villa, point to a map and say, “This is where America is!”, and then claim that he discovered the New World.
Just like you can’t say, “I’ll wait for what I’m good at to find me,” Christopher Columbus didn’t decide that...
March 2013
9 posts
Stress Management
A psychologist walked around a room while teaching stress management to an audience. As she raised a glass of water, everyone expected they’d be asked the “half empty or half full” question. Instead, with a smile on her face, she inquired: “How heavy is this glass of water?” Answers called out ranged from 8 oz. to 20 oz. She replied, “The absolute weight doesn’t matter. It depends on how long I...
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On Google Killing Google Reader
Google decides to shut down Google Reader, which is painful to more than 1 Billion users who continue to use it for consuming web content.
This is obvious from Google’s perspective. There is no point in wasting resources and “money” on something which is a dead asset and doesn’t make money. Although Google Reader has more than a Billion users under its belt, Google...
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Too Much In The Head, Too Little In The Spine
Soon after getting freedom from British rule in 1947, the de-facto prime minister of India, Jawahar Lal Nehru called a meeting of army officers to select the first General of the Indian army.
Nehru proposed, “I think we should appoint a British officer as a General of Indian Army as we don’t have enough experience to lead the same.”
Having learned under the British, only to...
What is the nicest thing you've ever done that no... →
Literally cried after reading this. Very touchy.
99 ka Chakkar
Once upon a time, there lived a very mighty king. The king was very ambitious and hungry for power, he was always in his quest of conquering, achieving, exploring, fighting and winning. The king was never content with whatever treasure he has, he never counted his victories, he could never feel “enough”. He always wanted to “fight” and “win” and add one more...
Let People Burn Themselves Before Learning
You can lead a horse to water but you can’t force them to drink. If you do then you probably end up drowning them and that isn’t your intention.[[MORE]] Let’s say you have a child. That child keeps trying to climb on something and you know there is a good chance they will fall. So you keep telling them not to climb on it. In their mind they have no idea what you are talking...
Create your Minimum viable Product
Back in 2008 Andrew Mason came up with an idea: to build a website that would offer deals to customers, as long as enough of them would make the purchase. Andrew had a BA in Music, so he wasn’t a hardcore coder. He did have some web design skills, though. That’s why he decided to install WordPress on the website and hack it a bit to display the offers, the first one being a pizza from a nearby...
What is the biggest misconception people have...
That there is something externally you have to do in order to experience happiness.
You say to yourself that once you are done with your education, you can be happy - no more exams, hurrah! Or once you have found the love of your life, got the job of your dreams, the perfect body or a big house at the beach, then you can allow yourself to be happy. In other words - you attach happiness to an...
February 2013
11 posts
What most schools don't teach
How to think and create ~ is what most schools don’t teach. In school and college, I learned how to dupicate and vomit something which I won’t remember and apply in real life. What a waste of time!
In reality, noone can teach you how to think, be it programming a computer, knitting a sweater, playing a musical instrument or anything creative. Schools don’t teach you how to...
Haters Gonna Hate! →
The only thing worse than dealing with haters of your company or product is not having any at all. The product without haters is destined for ignominy and failure. In fact, I’d go so far as to say that your product’s success is positively correlated with the volume of venom directed at it.
Yes, jealousy. After all, no one hates a loser. That company with 1% market share? No one...
Setting Yourself For Failure is a Good thing
Mistakes are a necessary evil when you really want to learn something, and sometimes the best way to make them happen quickly is to intentionally set the odds out of your favor.
Intentionally set yourself for failure
Invent Or Identify →
You don’t have to reinvent the wheel all over again. Just be curious enough.
Create. Design. Build. Track. Write. Repeat. →
Some great advice on how to create.
“A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.”
– Unknown
Life Lessons From a 25 Year Old
Fascinating read. [By Derreck Fung at Quora.]
When I turned 25 a few months ago, I wrote down some of the things I’ve learned over my short time on earth. The last year has been a crazy roller-coaster ride which has enabled me to see certain things like never before. Last year during this time, I was working at what I would consider my “dream job” - well, before I discovered my...
January 2013
6 posts
“Be curious. Read widely. Try new things. What people call intelligence just...”
– Aaron Swartz
I feel I have wasted a lot of time. Is it too...
It is never too late. Too late for what?
If you slept through your 26th birthday, it’s too late for you to experience it. It’s too late for you to watch “LOST” in its premiere broadcast. (Though, honestly, you didn’t miss much.) It’s too late for you to fight in the Vietnam War. It’s too late for you to go through puberty or attend nursery school....
Why We Shout When We are Angry?
”Why We Shout In Anger” A Hindu saint who was visiting river Ganges to take bath found a group of family members on the banks, shouting in anger at each other. He turned to his disciples smiled’n asked. ‘Why do people shout in anger shout at each other?’
Disciples thought for a while, one of them said,’Because we lose our calm, we shout.’ ‘But,...
Staying Young To Try
Be young enough to try.
Anything.
Remember, failure is acceptable, but “not trying” is not at all acceptable. You have to try, you have to give it a shot, you have to go for it - leave success, failure and everything else to God. He will take care of it, your job is to try and to keep trying.
I remember these lines from Gita, which says the exact same thing
Karmanye Vadhikaraste,...
December 2012
2 posts
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Eating Fish
Wisdom: Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; show him how to catch fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.
Common sense: If you give a man a fish, he will eat for a day. But if you teach him to fish, he might eat all the fish that you might have caught yourself. Who needs the competition?
Guidance: You can teach a man to fish, but he can’t eat fish his whole life. Eating fish gets...
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The Most Amazing Feeling In Life
The feeling of freedom. The moment you step off a plane in a brand new city, no one around to tell you how to live your life, where hardly anyone knows your name but so many opportunities abound. When you can shape your new existence however you please.
So what happens when you search for freedom but can’t quite reach it? Escape. The feel-good, sometimes-futile replacement for freedom.
...
November 2012
7 posts
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