Archive for the year 2020

Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak spent time on electronics as a hobby. They were so passionate about it that it became their life’s work. Mark Zuckerberg coded as a fun pass time before he started working on Facebook. I used…

There are times in life when we stand on the sideline. We want to help. But aren’t sure how. Maybe we are thinking if my help will mean anything. What if each drop in the ocean thought like this? And…

Backlinks rock the SEO world. It is what Google’s search ranking algorithm is built on. There are 200 or so other factors but backlinks are among the top ones. They are so important but not easy to understand for those…

Earlier I wrote about how I reply to most emails right away. I do it is because how you do anything is how you do everything. We often don’t do somethings that we need to do right now because…

Have you mailed me recently? If you have then you’d know that I don’t take long to reply. I reply to almost all your emails right after I see them. Not because I am laying around binge-watching Breaking Bad and…

The biggest obstacle in the path of growth is our monkey mind. It jumps from thought to thought, place to place. It is capable of thinking about weird ideas. When tamed it can make us powerful, and take us to…

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Work to a routine. Become efficient. Go faster, for a short duration. So many ways. Which one will you choose?

Want to 10x or 100x your time? Do…

It used to take me an entire day to finish one blog post. Now I write one in under 30 minutes. The longer ones, a couple of hours max. I used to be late for meetings, now I am always…

I love late nights when everything is quiet and you become one with whatever you want to do. I also love the mornings because of the brightness and fresh energy they bring with them. Can one enjoy both? I don’t…

We spend so much time thinking and worrying about what a perfect life would be.  Even when we don’t think about a perfect life, we think about what as per us makes it perfect – people, love, money, objects, experiences,…

No two humans are alike. But for most of us, drifting in the future comes easy. Some find hope and their happy place there. And, there are others who meet anxiety when they drift too far. Especially when the present…

Elon Musk famously worked 120 hours a week at one point. Tim Ferriss inspired people to follow a 4 hour week. I haven’t tried any of these extremes except another type of extreme when I did not work at all…

We live in a world obsessed with getting things done. What if you get things done and still not grow? It’s possible. When you get the ‘wrong’ things done. It’s not rare. It happens with most of us who follow…

You win with content when it does its job. Content’s job varies depending on industry and audience. So, content can educate, entertain, inform, or do anything else. How do you know that content is doing its job. You ask a…

Fear and anxiety is a common theme for the founders I have spoken with recently. Intensity varies but its there. At times it is real, because of what is happening around us which we have to live through. Elizabeth Gilbert…