Nerd out on the smallest things in life. I am talking about things like cooking, ironing clothes, shampooing hair, and so on. These small things actually affect us a lot because we do them regularly, for our entire life. You will brush your teeth 25 thousand times in your life. And you will spend 104 […]
You know how Spotify remembers where you paused a particular song? And when you come back, it will start the song from the exact place you left. Great feature, right? Certainly, it’s a pinnacle of user-centered design, keeping your pause point tucked away for when you return, correct? No. I bet half the time, the […]
I was kind of a petro-head growing up. I used to follow all the new car/bike launches. I used to buy those Navneet notebooks with pictures of Superbikes on the front cover and the performance stats on the back cover. During undergrad, I used to buy the new issue of TopGear every time we visited […]
Let’s say you have to do something you haven’t done before. It could be formatting an excel in a certain way; going on an 80 km cycle ride or building a chrome extension; What’s your instinctive first action? Is it to go to the excel wizard, the cycling guru, or the tech bro friend of […]
I tried to revolutionize travel with a Telegram group but ended up with a lesson in experiment design. I was planning my 2023 New Year’s Hampi solo trip in November and realized there are no good community-based tools for solo travelers. So I decided to take matters into my own hands. A social tool for […]
The AI-Automation trend is the story of how we become self-reliant at an individual level. A hypothetical example: The story goes that Drew Houston conceived dropbox after repeatedly forgetting his USB flash drives while at MIT. But the thing is, dropbox is a fairly complex software product, that took significant effort to build out. Drew […]
If I get money, will that make me happy? If I get a prestigious job, will that make me happy? If I get a girlfriend, will that make me happy? If I get X will that make me happy? — Every 20-something must have thought along this line sometime. In this blog I try to […]
What is Sense of Ownership? What is ownership? What does it mean to own something? Of course you can get a reasonable answer by looking up “ownership” in a dictionary, but sense of ownership is a much more vague concept. We will try to explore some attributes of and factors from which the sense of […]
Photo by Photoholgic on Unsplash When I was creating my Medium profile I used the phrase “Lazy Enthusiast(LE)” to describe myself in the bio section. I did not really think about what it’s supposed to mean, but it just felt right. Over time, I started mentally tagging people I meet as “Lazy Enthusiast(LE)” or “not Lazy […]
Photo by Andrew Neel on Unsplash About a month ago, I started working on Unfluence! It was going to be the perfect side project. In fact, Here is a list of things why it was going to be a perfect side project. The idea was inspired by a book. It solved a real problem I had. […]