3 things I did to reduce phone distractions 📵

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 …

5 minute tasks

One of the biggest learning in my ongoing parental leave is lot of things take 5 minutes or less. Lot of the household chores, I mean. For example, it takes couple of minutes to put a load in the washing machine, it takes less than 5 minutes to dry those clothes. It takes less than …

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 …

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 …