To set context, I am a very heavy email user. I tend to not like unread emails. I like to respond in a timely fashion (often times, very quickly). I am always on the lookout for good hacks. This is for my official email. I 💗 Inbox-Zero. Emails that I get are either actionable or…
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Book Review: Lets Talk Money
Author: Monika Halan Easy read. Talks about familiar concepts but in a very pragmatic manner. Simplifies a lot of concepts. If you want deep details, this is not the book for you. I wanted to read this book and Richest Man in Babylon, before I moved on to my next read – Psychology of Money….
Book Review: The Richest Man in Babylon
Author: George S Clason This is a classic from 1926. One of the things that I realize is that – the typical questions that one faces about money and savings have remained pretty much the same. If one were to extrapolate, since the book uses parables from Babylonian times, maybe we could say that the…
The Travenues Story …
Moving this from my twitter pinned thread to here. It is time that I move on, and this is a logical intentional move to ‘get over it’. On July 21, 2020, we announced that Spicejet acq-hired Team @travenues. What a fantastic 2 years that has culminated in this outcome today. Brief history thread with some…
HoneyCode and Amazon design
Suhas Motwani pointed me to honeycode.aws. This is airtable + zapier + more. Prepare to get disrupted (again). This is the amazing power of platforms. The thing is – AWS probably did this in half the time and effort (or less) that the startups pour into it – because they have the blocks, and it took…
Communication …
Communication (n) – a process by which information is exchanged between individuals through a common system of symbols, signs, or behavior. During this very difficult time of the entire world fighting the CoVid-19 virus, companies have been forced into this new normal – a way of getting things done through entirely remote teams, connected virtually…
How to choose your co-working space
Context – I had never worked in a co-working space until about a year ago. Made some mistakes, moved, made some mistakes, and moved again. So I guess I want to pass on these learnings to others who might end up in the same scenario. Washrooms. Sounds gross/crude – but take a team member of…
Demo day at Shotang
Earlier this month, we, at Shotang, held our first demo day. It was a Friday afternoon event on our terrace. We could not have had better weather that day. The intent of this event is to showcase the technology and the product that is being built to enable the first large scale retail distribution platform….
BBMP door-to-door collection
I recently got to know that BBMP has a door-to-door collection philosophy of garbage collection. Apparently, you are not allowed to take your garbage to some location. Well, there is no location. And the BBMP collection people are supposed to take the garbage to a road corner (yes, I said road corner). From here small auto…
My Dream Alarm Clock
I have been looking for an alarm clock with the following specifications. If any one has any info on something like this that exists, please let me know. Yes, all the specs should be met. I should be able to set multiple alarms (need to wake my son up in the middle of the night…