Doing It Yourself

It may seem like knowledge workers favor outsourcing all menial tasks to give them time to make more money, but my unpopular opinion is that things like actually going into a grocery store to shop, ironing your own clothes, cooking and cleaning aren’t things to always automate or outsource. ...

On leaving: Projects.

Anything worth doing is worth doing well, but sometimes there’s a fork in the road that means you have to leave a project in your past. I strongly believe that the way you leave things also matters just as much as how you behaved while doing the thing. Ideally how I want to leave projects is: ...

A Social Gameshow

Victor sent me a random WhatsApp message one Sunday He referenced a social media gameshow called HQ https://medium.com/swlh/the-rise-and-fall-of-hq-the-social-media-trivia-game-show-3a15d58a528e which I never got around to reading - somehow, I wasn’t convinced. But a week later I got thinking, ...

July 2024 Take 1

Product Weekly: July 2024 Take 1 Product Review I went to a block party recently and noticed that the wristbands were rather unique: made of cloth, with a plastic fastener that made it reusable. It was pretty sturdy and hard to take off - if you didn’t pay attention to how the fastening ...

Mid-year Check-in: Reading List

I haven't read as much as i could this year, so thought it would be good to do a dump of everything I have going on on the book front, just to keep track somewhere outside my head. Read recently Lateral thinking, Ed de Bono: Long, arduous read that slowed my reading pace for months, but great ...