Sydney ’22

Selling this cot

Extendable Solid Wood single bed in provincial teak finish Single bed with extendable trundle40 inches x 82 inchesSolid wood6 years old, gently used. Asking price - 7000 City - Bangalore VIDEO https://youtu.be/yjr4GF8xMtY Photos

On credit cards

In this video, I cover the three topics: How do credit cards workShould you get a credit cardBest practices while using a credit card https://www.youtube.com/embed/WEtUGvMfTQU

Deep work – Book recommendation

What a wonderful book, written wonderfully. Cal Newport creates a hypothesis around deep work and then goes about adding stories and data to validate those hypothesis. What is this book about? The book is about, well, deep work. The kind of work that is needed in today's marketplace to be in demand. The book starts …

Quality trumps all – Ikea

Recently Ikea started shipping to Bangalore, so as any IT person, I jumped to their site the moment I heard the news. If you thought Amazon doesn't care about design in their sites, Ikea accepted that Amazon challenge and built a site worse than Amazon. Maybe I will write about the bad experience in another …

Measure what matters – Book recommendation

Measure what matters had been recommended to me for quite some time now and I always thought it was about product metrics, what are the right metrics to measure and what are the vanity metrics but boy was I wrong! Finally, a month back I came across this book right in time for our annual …

WFH setup

Like a lot of us in IT, I have been working from home(WFH) for the last one year. My office was gracious enough to allocate some budget so that employees can get things needed for their WFH setup. A callout here is that the budget was not enough to cover everything that you see here …

100 piece jigsaw puzzle

I introduced my 3yo to jigsaw puzzles when she was 2 I guess, we started with 2 pieces (alphabets and images) and then 3, then 10. Now she can do up to 30 pieces on her own. I wanted to try out the 100 pieces with her and she was very overwhelmed. Best way to …

Sunbirds

Fun fact: there are no humming birds in India, the closest we have is Sunbirds The male purple-rumped sunbird has, well, a purple rump on top as opposed to a purple sunbird that is fully purple. The females have olive-green top with a light yellowish belly. In this video you can see a male and …