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Elon's goals and answer to the most fundamental question

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The most fundamental question to understand, IMO, is the existential one...What the heck is all this?! Why and how are we here? What are we ...

Seek helpful advice

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I have come across some research that showed that people with mentors are more successful in life and career, and I totally buy that. The wo...

Emotions

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I had a recent breakthrough in my pursuit of equanimity and joy .  I have been trying the Buddhist / Stoic principle of not fighting with re...

Basic shit

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Daljit (my SO) and I were chatting yesterday about how whenever we feel like we are in a rut, it's almost always because we stopped taki...

Product leaders -- understanding customers is still a top priority

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It's now somewhat common best practice (inconsistently practiced though) for Product Managers to talk to customers regularly. The reason...

Paying attention, listening, and caring

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I was upset and having a particularly rough day. We were meeting a few of our close friends couples that day. Not wanting to be a dow...

Wrong goals and targets can be damaging for early-stage products

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I was tasked with starting a "big bets" team at a startup I was working on. The goal of the team was loosely defined as to achieve...

Talking to your parts and pasts

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I may have stumbled onto a life-changing practice on Twitter yesterday. I have only practiced it a couple of times so far and I feel a drama...

I read only one book in a year and it was great

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It's the start of a new year - a wonderful and optimistic time where we start off with a clean slate, lots of hope, goals, and resolutio...

Inner work

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December is the reflective time of the year. During December 2020, I spent 3 days in this beautiful cabin, scribbling down a lot of thoughts...

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...