All insight is knowledge distilled into its purest form. But the world is complex. Dynamic. How do you then go from complexity to insight? You probe for simplicity. You try to reduce all nuance into its simplest digestible form. But probing has its own side-effects because it requires you to

What’s the number one thing you need to do to hit your target? Be close to it. This is what my tennis coach shared with me during one of my lessons. He said, “To hit your target, be close to it”. My “target” was to hit the ball at

I've been interested in honing 'evergreen skills'. These skills are context-independent qualities that amplify performance. For example, qualities like listening, writing, thinking, talking, connecting with people, managing ambiguity, and more, are things you can leverage in any situation; they'll always be important. These skills are like levers; by themselves, they

I find myself occasionally revisiting a pivotal article I read a few years ago, titled 'Reality has a surprising amount of detail.' I love it because it shows how a simple act of building basement stairs seems like a simple task, but is actually rather complex and requires attention

I've been thinking about better goal-setting (and goal-finishing) this year, and for a system that actually works. So far, I've been rather disenchanted with what I've found. Perhaps, at some level, I'm jaded with the highly-"motivating" and "structured" systems. This was my cue. This week, I pondered over how

Hey friends, As the first week draws to a close, it’s helpful to see how we can ensure that January just does not turn into June. So this week, I thought hard about how we set goals, use color-coded planners, and mark a fresh beginning of all things, all

Fellow stakeholders, Despite all odds, 2022 was an unexpectedly successful year, one where I continued with my projects at work, diversified into new avenues of personal growth, and worked toward an evolving plan for delivering longer-term returns. This is commendable because it happened despite a year of constant volatility and

I've been noticing how we're all wondrously capable of engineering our own failures. Intuitively, we tend to procrastinate, self-sabotage, and suffer in our imaginations, all to the detriment of our success. It's a hard thing to accept but dig deeper and you'll find a semblance of truth to this tendency.

Here's a hypothesis: As we grow older, our open loops increase, making it harder for us to keep up with everything. The gestation period of things naturally increases, limiting our bandwidth to take on new things or complete the existing ones.   Think about the last time you were swamped with