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: ...

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 ...

Waiting for a Mentor

I see a lot of people online asking others who’ve demonstrated some mark of mastery in an area to be their mentor. Now a mentor can provide numerous advantages, especially when they’ve been directly involved in the thing you’re pursuing, so this isn’t an attempt to argue otherwise. Let’s face ...

A time to die

I grew up going for a long time without people close to me passing, so death of loved ones was always this far fetched thing for me, but in the last 2 years I’ve lost two uncles, and an uncle’s wife, people who were all part of my growing up in some shape or form. Most people my age have lost ...