You know those two, or three things you really splurge on? Places where you definitely spend more than you can afford. It can be buying that Sabyasachi lehenga or limited edition sneakers, or in my case specialty coffee. Spends which are very hard for you to explain to your parents. Your Splurge List. Now, let me introduce you […]
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 […]