This is a story of my experience during the past 2 weeks when I have mostly stayed away from the Internet, allowing me to realize the things I was missing when connected. When I was a child, my mother always used to tell me: “Don’t overdo it”! While in retrospect this was excellent advice, I was […]
I love visiting a startup because its office is always full of creativity and enthusiasm. I always end up learning something new from their office setup. In an earlier post, I gave you an exclusive tour of Google’s headquarters and now, as promised, here is a virtual tour of the Coursera office. You may ask, why the Coursera office? Well, credit goes to Rajat. If you have […]
Weekends are safe haven, a retreat straight to our comfortable couches in the hallway, binging away on potato chips and endless shows on the TV. After a week long of hard working, it definitely makes sense to let loose of all and hit the couch hard when weekend is around. This is how we ‘Normal’ […]
I don’t know the business; I don’t know the startup. What I do know is how to live your passion! When I started my career in 2008, the term “entrepreneurship” was catching on, and in 2012 I found that it had become a commonly used term. I never really knew what entrepreneurship was, but I knew that there was a difference […]
Life is an endless journey, and at every phase, we learn something new. Some things we are taught by the people around us, and some things we learn on our own. I have learned much of what I know on my own. At the time of the writing of this journal entry, I’m 27 and living in the capital city of […]
One of the worst things about being under stress is that it decreases your efficiency and productivity, and it has a negative effect on your overall performance. Like you, I get stressed for various reasons. Sometimes my stress is work-related, sometimes it’s related to personal issues, and at times it can be related to disturbing news of something […]
Last time when I wrote about the Problem with working from home, I mentioned some issues which many of us would face in the long run when you work from home for a long time. It’s been almost 4 years that I have a home office (Not something that I’m proud of, time to get […]
Warning: This post was written by a 60-hour sleep deprived body and mind. Read with caution! I have been blogging for the past 10 years, and I work from a home office. In this post, I’m going to rant about problems which I have faced while working from home. Note: This post was written back […]
