Hello 🙂 I'm moving my blog to Substack (another blogging platform). The main reason is that it is easier to configure and write there than here. So please check that blog out, I've been writing almost everyday on goals, productivity and parenting. It would be great to see you there. https://joejayanth.substack.com/ cheers joe Photo by … Continue reading Moving the blog
Today I had a wonderful breakfast with some friends whom I have known for more than a decade. The breakfast itself was just the usual kind, but the company and conversation is what made it wonderful. It is special to stay in touch with some folks for so long, to share in each others ups … Continue reading Old Friends
Inspired by TechCrunch's favourite things, I thought I'd write my own list of favourite things that I bought in 2022. Then I realized it wasn't much of a list, but I'd write it anyways. When somethings are so good, you can't help but talk about it to others. Samsung Earbuds 2 (link) I dabbled with … Continue reading Favourite things of 2022
I was looking for something crisp that explains the gist of Christmas and I found this in the Salvation Army website. So, here it is - the gist of Christmas Celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ is more than a Christian holiday or Christian festival. It is more than an occasion to decorate our houses. … Continue reading About Christmas
Phones are a constant source of distractions in our life. For the scope of this post, I would define distraction as anything that gets in the way of achieving your goals. When you hear of 'goals' don't get 'triggered' thinking about new year resolutions or office OKRs or career/personal goals, I mean goal in a … Continue reading 3 things I did to reduce phone distractions 📵
As a product manager, I am responsible for a part of a product in an organization. My team and I are always working on something critical with respect to the product. Part of the job is to keep the stakeholders informed. But an unspoken responsibility is also to showcase the work the team has done. … Continue reading Showcasing the work
In the human society, everyone is supposed to be of use to somebody. Farmers grow crops which is of use to every living human being, bakers bake, bus drivers take people from A to B, painters paint, manufacturing units churn out 'things' that is used by a lot of people, software makers build software that … Continue reading Consumers and Creators
I used to be in marketing before I became a product manager. One of the earliest lessons (thru feedback) that I learnt was that while writing customer facing copies one should always talk about the value that customer will get rather than writing about the feature that the team has shipped. Both are technically same … Continue reading Features vs Value
We make so many memories, try to record most of them through our phone cameras and then forget to look at most of them. My December ritual(one of the) is that I select 100 of them (from this year 50), based on how much I cherish that memory/event. I pick that 50, put in a … Continue reading A December ritual
The month of December is the Friday of the year. The second half of the month, like any Friday, whizzes past. Not a lot of work gets done and everyone is in a joyful mood. After Friday comes Monday (because weekends are usually a blur!). So if December is Friday, what does that make January? … Continue reading New year resolution template
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