Abhinav Kejriwal

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

I have been interested in how we take negative feedback and positive compliments. What I have learned so far has been insightful. Start with negative feedback. You take feedback with one of two lenses: a lens of validation or a lens of improvement. Intuitively, we don't want negative feedback because

Imagine recollecting exactly what happened last week or what happened yesterday. Chances are you don’t. So, here’s a conjecture: There are short attention spans and short memory spans. Attention span is the duration for which your focus on a thing is maintained. Memory span is the duration for

I'm currently neck-deep in work and other things, so it's been a while since I last posted. That said, I've kept an eye out for any intriguing insights. Over the past few months, then, I've noticed something subtle: We love to both brag and crib about many things in life,