Posts from the productivity category.
There is something slightly uncomfortable about Finish What You Start.We have been taught to admire people who never quit.Finish the project.Complete the course.Stick to the goal.Keep going.Somewhere along the way, finishing became proof of character.Peter Hollins's book examines why we struggle to do exactly that.We start with enthusiasm. Then the excitement fades. The work becomes repetitive. Di...
“pp” might be the most common short form on Instagram. It means “price please”. Customers comment pp on posts and expect all the details in their inbox. I was unaware of pp.“Can you share your catalog? We can import it into Querygen.”, I asked my customer.The customer opened their Instagram page. That was the catalog. Every new product was posted as a reel there. Customers were commenting, sending...
Why do intelligent people make simple problems complicated?Sometimes because the problem really is complicated.But sometimes because complexity makes us feel that we are doing serious thinking.That distinction stayed with me while reading Mukesh Sud’s Simple Thinking. The book begins with an idea that sounds almost obvious: when we are surrounded by information, opinions and noise, finding a simpl...
Most of us have heard of the double slit experiment.As a refresher, here it is - You fire electrons, one at a time, at a plate with two slits cut into it. Behind the plate is a screen. Common sense says each electron goes through one slit or the other (its a particle), and you should end up with two bands on the screen. Like spray paint through two open windows.That is NOT what you get. You get ma...
The Practicing Mind — Are We Practising Patience, or Practising Impatience?We often say that we want to become better at something.A better writer. A better athlete. A better parent. A better professional. A better version of ourselves.But there is a part of the process we don’t talk about enough.The part where we are still bad at it.The part where improvement is so slow that we begin wondering wh...
Some books arrive with answers.Others arrive with a question that quietly follows you long after you’ve closed the final page.What if the greatest obstacle to your work isn’t the world around you — but the distance between who you are and who you could become?That is the conversation Manoj Chenthamarakshan begins in Aligned Work: Let the Higher Self Express Through You!It is a remarkably slim book...
Every conversation about improving our lives usually begins in the wrong place. We talk about better habits, stronger discipline, improved productivity, or greater motivation. Rarely do we begin with the organ that makes every one of those things possible. The Brain Always Wins asks us to reverse that order. Before changing our behaviour, it argues, we should understand the brain that creates it.T...
Many books about success promise transformation. Brian Tracy’s Million Dollar Habits makes a quieter promise: transformation begins long before results appear, hidden inside ordinary routines that most people never think twice about. It is less interested in dramatic breakthroughs than in the small decisions that eventually become identity.Tracy has spent decades writing about achievement, and rea...
IndexHow I built Querygen.aiIntroductionQuerygenThe Hero of this story - ToolThis hero does a lot of heavy lifting. It is a superhero.ArchitectureBuilding a resilient system (aka Reality)⭐️ Have strong contracts between the stages of the pipeline⭐️ Manage Concurrency & Race Conditions⭐️ Make everything auditable and replayable.Charu Constructions uses Querygen to manage their fleet operations.Less...
There is a peculiar modern habit that rarely receives the attention it deserves. A person can spend an entire day in conversation without speaking to anyone at all.The dialogue happens while driving to work, while scrolling through social media, while replaying an argument from three years ago, while imagining a future disaster that may never arrive. The voice is familiar because it belongs to us....
