Posts from the productivity category.
(7 of 8)7. Sharpen The SawCovey says, \Rest, renew, sharpen your blade,\My mind says, \No time to stop, hustle never fade.\One knows the woodcutter must rest to cut deep,One thinks rest is for the weak, no time for sleep.Use it today: Rest is not a reward, it's how you keep.
(3 of 8)Put First Things FirstCovey says, \Do what matters, let the first be first,\My mind says, \Scroll a little, quench that instant thirst.\One builds the future, stone by stone,One kills the time on my phone.Use it today: Do the hardest thing for ten minutes alone.
There is a subtle shift happening in organisations.We are moving from using AI to do things towards using AI to tell us what to do.That second shift is much more consequential.A machine that drafts a report is one thing.A machine that identifies a project risk, recommends a resource allocation, forecasts an outcome or suggests a course of action is something else entirely.That is where Danilo Arba...
The Strange Distance Between Knowing and DoingI finished Theresa Cheung's Walk Your Talk with a fairly ordinary thought.I already know most of this.Sleep better.Move.Drink water.Breathe.Be grateful.Spend less time scrolling.Protect attention.Build better habits.None of this is new information.And yet I kept thinking about the book.That usually means there is something underneath the obvious idea.C...
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...
