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The Hidden Benefits of Blogging: Beyond the Likes and Shares

TL;DR 👇🏼 Blogging is the Ultimate Tool for Self-Improvement. Blogging will force you to write. Which will force you to think through an issue clearly before you write. Because good writing usually is a product of good clear thinking. Unclear writing is usually the end outcome of unclear thinking. And blogging also acts as a journalContinue reading “The Hidden Benefits of Blogging: Beyond the Likes and Shares”

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The Best 20 Longform Articles I read

Over the last few years, after reading 300 plus articles/blog posts/columns online, here are my current favourite 20. Don’t waste time reading and consuming low value low insight info-junkfood in books and newspapers that skims a issue, usually of marginal importance. That is bad for you in  every way. What you want to do isContinue reading “The Best 20 Longform Articles I read”

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Cultivating Insight: Escaping the Narrative Matrix

Narrative is looking at an event and then making up a good story around it. Usually the narrator highlights bits in the story that supporting his point of view. But if done badly it misses a lot of important details. Most op-ed columns today are entertaining narratives masquerading as Insight. Most LinkedIn articles are badlyContinue reading “Cultivating Insight: Escaping the Narrative Matrix”

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My TBR Pile of Doom: A Celebration of Unread Books

Explaining the AntiLibrary As Oliver Burkeman narrates it, the novelist and scholar Umberto Eco once bemoaned the fact that many visitors to his home, seeing his vast personal library, can’t help but exclaim: “What a lot of books! Have you read them all?” His jaw stiffens: the question implies that his floor-to-ceiling bookshelves are for showing off,Continue reading “My TBR Pile of Doom: A Celebration of Unread Books”

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The Best 10 Longform Articles of 100 I Read

The majority of people I know if asked will admit two statements willingly : 1. Reading a book will take up a lot of my spare time 2. I do not have spare time! Take a moment to think about how you get most of your daily dose of News : – a quick peek intoContinue reading “The Best 10 Longform Articles of 100 I Read”

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Book Review : Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders

Mount Everest, K2 and Kangchenjunga are the 3 indisputable tallest mountain ranges out there. It is likely on the bucket list of many new and aspiring climbers, working as a backdrop siren call as they hone their skills on lesser mounds. Book lovers have their own list but this list can never be definitive sinceContinue reading “Book Review : Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders”

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Games as Portal to Learning – Life Lessons from Video Games

Even now in my late 30s I regularly play games on my Xbox and relish it. Most dismiss it as a silly distraction. But Gamers know just how good, immersive and addictive these new age games are. But even fewer realize how educational video games can be. Yes. EDUCATIONAL. And not in the vague weasel-politician-word sense butContinue reading “Games as Portal to Learning – Life Lessons from Video Games”

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How to spot Bullshit Marketing

I may not have scraped too much off the passing wisdom iceberg but if asked to dispense something memorable in the here and now, a week into my 37th birthday, here it is : NEVER TRUST ANY ADVERTISEMENT THAT FEATURES CUTE ANIMALS OR KIDS. American novelist Sinclair Lewis wryly noted early on that ‘Advertising isContinue reading “How to spot Bullshit Marketing”

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Why I lost faith in interviews and resumes

Paul Graham is a programmer, writer, and famous investor and this blog on Start Up Ideas was a terrific read. Here is a sample gem : “One of my tricks for generating startup ideas is to imagine the ways in which we’ll seem backward to future generations.” “…..Ways in which we’ll seem backward to futureContinue reading “Why I lost faith in interviews and resumes”

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