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Good college or good course?
Good brand or good pay?
Good work or good pay?
Competent or asshole boss?
Have a job and need a job?
Who do you read for?
Are you good at it or happy with it?
Can you help others?
Do you know what you are talking about?
The pressure of life
Is it urgent or important?
Do you live to eat or eat to live?
Should you take a loan?
Where to spend your time?
How to handle disagreements?
I love 2x2 matrices.

They help me see the complex world in a simpler fashion.
Not with the intent of solving all problems.
Instead with the intent of breaking down the complexity to lesser complex items.
“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.”

― E.F. Schumacher

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30 Oct
Mistakes I made in my first job

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I assumed speed of response equals intelligence.
I was always eager to quickly finish my work, because I wanted to known as "he gets things done super fast".

We are not paid to get things done fast.
We are paid to get things done right.
I figured I was so low in the hierarchy that if there was an error in my work, someone above me would catch it.
I thought that was their job - to identify errors in their team.

If you wait for your managers to catch your errors, they are now doing your work.
Not theirs.
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23 Oct
How I spend my day

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My day is split into 4 distinct sections
1. Morning (until 930am) - dedicated to me
2. First half (until 1230pm) - dedicated to my work
3. Second half (until 530pm) - dedicated to external engagements
4. Evening (until 930pm) - dedicated to family

This has been so for 4+ yrs
Morning

4.30-4.50am

I wake up at 430am
The first thing I do is to get a glass of water, sit on the floor cross legged and sip it like wine.

No phone.
No person.
Just me and and my water.

This is when I mostly think about the day to come, maybe remember a dream. No agenda!
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21 Oct
I am privileged that a lot of people write in seeking help.

What shocks me, consistently, is how few of them...
...know WHAT help they need.

My standard response to most emails is my favorite question
“How can I help”

And it saddens me how many people do not know the response to this question.
Bad answers to this question

- Want to bounce off my idea
- I am confused
- Get your views on my thoughts
- Need 15mins of your time
Read 6 tweets
16 Oct
How I read my books

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For the past 4 years, I have managed to read 40-45 books in a year.
After a lot of trial and error, I think I have arrived at a way of reading books that works for me.

It all starts with a routine.
1.
I read every morning, for 30-45 mins.
This is after 90 mins of waking up, once I am done with my meditation, my singing and my "sipping water like wine" routine (a story for another day)

I have read everyday for the longest time I know.
Almost at the same time everyday.
Read 26 tweets
15 Oct
I was asked yesterday, "You talk about daily progress. How do we know that we are progressing daily? That is something hard to measure".

I have a simple yardstick for daily progress
Do one thing everything that scares you.
The world tricks us into believing that life's goal is comfort.

Because everything around us is designed for our comfort.
Want food? Click
Want books? Click
Want content? Click
Want love? Swipe right

Everything available at the speed of thought.
Getting to a life of comfort may be progress.
But living a life FOR comfort isn't.
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14 Oct
One of the best things we introduced at nearbuy.com was a form called "Why the fuck"

We encouraged everyone who saw something happening in the company that made them go, "why the fuck...?" to fill up this form.

A simple google form.
Anonymous.
We cared about the truth.
Not the source of the truth.
Once I received the question, I answered the question in all honesty and transparency.

And the answer was shared on the google sheet, with the entire company.

100% transparency.
Nothing to hide.
Never wasting a moment thinking what you told whom.
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