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Oct 25, 2021
Curate your virtual space
The virtual space is to your mind what the digital space is to your body. If you have a lot of clutter in the room, you not only find it...
Oct 22, 2021
Line of sight
Choice is not about doing but about not doing. Minimalism is about unencumbering ourselves with generalised expectations. In any given...
Oct 14, 2021
Next link in the chain
A small note on Anxiety that I’ve devised for myself to get over it in the moment when I feel it taking control over me Think only of the...
Oct 8, 2021
You = What you focus on
Who you are, what you think, feel, and do, what you love - is the sum of what you focus on - Winifred Gallagher (Rapt) As a creator I’ve...
Oct 6, 2021
Writing - Caring - Boredom
Some reflections from Austin Kleon’s discussion with Rob Walker Writing is crystallizations of thoughts in a particular time We often...
Sep 28, 2021
Bloatwares in the mind
Spend more time searching for better information sources. A body filled with junk food struggles to move well. A mind filled with junk...
Sep 26, 2021
Ingredients of failure
Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will - Suzy Kassem I was cooking a dish today and wanting to make an improvisation and started...
Sep 24, 2021
To adapt to the new or stick to the old
In his blog article defending change (or the status quo) Seth Godin argues that its easy to take the stance of either sticking vehemently...
Sep 22, 2021
Be Useless
While writing my morning pages this morning came up this line. Come up with something useful everyday. Every day, no matter what, I make...
Sep 14, 2021
Inspiration - Creation - Sharing
In the film Varda by Agnes, Agnes Varda, often called the godmother of the French New Wave shares the driving principles behind her...
Sep 11, 2021
Don't Focus on the Goals
My approach to what I do in my job — and it might even be the approach to my life — is that everything I do is the most important thing I...
Sep 10, 2021
Pareto’s Law- A primer on smart work
The Pareto principle states that for many outcomes, roughly 80% of consequences come from 20% of causes (the “vital few”).[1] Other names...
Sep 5, 2021
Loving your work vs working your love
And if you grudge the crushing of the grapes, your grudge distils a poison in the wine. And if you sing though as angels, and love not...
Sep 2, 2021
Some notes on journaling
I’ve been journaling daily, right from the first day of 2021 and going strong now 8 months down. I recently came across a video on daily...
Sep 1, 2021
The Great Outdoors
Only ideas won by walking have any value - Friedrich Nietzsche This line keeps coming to me time after time. Especially since these days...
Aug 31, 2021
Falling off between now and the future
A line from Morgan Housel’s Psychology of Money: If you risk something that is important to you for something that is unimportant to you,...
Aug 29, 2021
Virtues of being Lazy
One of my favorite Bruno Mars songs: A line from Cal Newport’s Deep Work: ”These efforts, (cartoonist Tim Kreider) is convinced, need...
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