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Nurturing passions

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Passions are activities that bring us joy and can be sustained over a long time. We feel joyful doing these activities because they get us i...

Human Body is like a Company

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It struck me today that there are many similarities between a human body and a company. Similarities and metaphors are useful because you ca...

Start with Why, Then What, Then How

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This is one piece of wisdom that's nearly universally relevant for everything we do - personal or professional - but is so often forgott...

3 crystal balls

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Imagine if someone gave you 3 crystal balls and said your life depends on them. If they get dirty or cracked, your life suffers. If they bre...

Some insights on team work and decision-making from a game of Codenames

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I was playing a few games of Codenames with some colleagues. For those who aren't familiar, Codenames is a game where the "spymaste...

PSA: Social media does NOT represent reality

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The majority of us get our news and along with it, our world view, morality, opinions, and daily furies, from scrolling the social feeds acr...

3 types of product improvements

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The main role of a product manager to identify and prioritize product investments within your area that'd have the most impact on the ov...

10 part Mad lib to get crisp on a product or feature idea

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Often times products and features are doomed to fail even before you start working on them because the customer, problem, their evaluation c...

Lessons from death

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I recently had to face some unexpected illnesses and deaths in my family.  Sickness and death are powerful reminders of the impermanence, fr...

Vacations

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I'm currently on a staycation at home, with no plans. I used to take vacations only for certain specific or special purposes like travel...

Customer retention = Frequency of Need X Fulfillment X Mind share

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High customer retention is the holy grail of most businesses. If customers keep coming back to your business, it increases lifetime revenue ...

Designing your life for "energized time"

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I believe that time is all we have and how we spend our days is how we spend our lives. Well...until someone recently introduced me to the ...

Simple career advice

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I have changed my jobs several times and I have struggled with the decision every time. Am I doing the right thing? Should I stay or try som...

Is it true? Is it kind? Is it useful?

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For the first time ever, I learned the same principle in THREE different contexts on the same day! And it was surprisingly relevant for the ...

10 failure modes

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It's sometimes easier to think of what will make you fail at something than what will make you succeed. That's why I like the techni...