Product Manager / Designer / Builder Most recently, I built Regain, an app to help students kill distractions & stay focused in a fun way. Launched and sc...
Grammarly is easily one of the best software products I have used. I have been using it since my university days in 2019, and I genuinely love it. As someone who had a lot of insecurity around writing, Grammarly felt like a superpower in the early days. It made me feel more confident and less anxious about writing documents and sending emails at my first job. One of my biggest learnings from…
I’ve come to realise that I can become good enough (not great) at a craft by just practising 2 skills: building my taste & learning to detach myself from the work. Taste Knowing what good looks like is the first step in becoming better at something. I believe that one cannot produce good work without consuming enough of what one wants to produce. The knowledge of history and previous work can…
I love startups. I have always wanted to start something on my own since my college days. I have also tried to get started multiple times before. I brainstorm the idea, I write about it, I discuss the idea with my friends, I convince them to work with me and I even draft a short-term plan to get started with the work. But when the day comes where all that is left is to do the 'actual work', I give…
I was watching an interview with an e-commerce leader named Arjun Purkayastha this week 1. Arjun has been in the industry for more than 2 decades and has been extremely successful in his career. While he was talking about his biggest failures, he mentioned an incident that made me stop for a while, and think about the concept of emotional debt. So, here’s how the story goes. About 10 years ago,…
It’s been almost 2 years since I completed college. I’m not the same person I was 2 years back, and I’m definitely not the same person I was when I gave my 12th exam thinking my life would change after going to college. Yes, it is true because I moved to a hostel and I was away from my home for the first time. There were a lot of changes that happened in the ‘physical environment’ but more…
I have been trying to eat healthily and reduce my social media usage for the past few weeks. And I realised that removing a habit seems super hard to me compared to adding a new one. I’ve been running and writing (this weekly newsletter & personal journaling) on a regular basis for the past 3 months. I also wrote a post about my experience of building these habits, but I consistently fail at…
For the past few weeks, I have been thinking about the importance of being alone and spending time with myself. After I quit my job, I wanted to consciously focus on a few things and this was one of them. Going way back in time, I have always had lots of people around me. Starting from my school days, college days, and even during my work, I've had the blessing of meeting wonderful people and…
This week, I attended a 50 mins long yoga session focusing on flexibility. All I did in that 50 mins was Surya Namaskara and variations of it. TBH, I was bored after 5-10 reps because we were doing the same set of exercises again and again and again. My immediate response was to check the time left for the class to end. My phone was lying down and I didn’t want to break the rhythm of the class. So…
My water heater stopped working this week. As I live in Bangalore, it’s impossible to live without a heater. So I immediately booked an appointment from the Urban Company app to fix the heater. This service was listed under electrical appliances & rightfully an electrician came to our home. He looked at the heater, and the electric ports, and said all seemed to work fine. He pointed us to touch…
I had an epiphany during a run this week. It was Thursday morning; I woke up with an extremely bad dream. The dream felt so real that I woke up terrified. It was already noon, but I had planned to go for a run early that day. Things didn’t feel aligned, but I pushed myself to go for the run. I was frustrated, and I wanted to push myself hard that day. So I decided to go for an 8km run. I put on my…