A Blog on Tech, Leadership and Life by Ashwin Chandrasekaran
“Read at least X books in 2015″ is a very popular resolution for the new year. How about some tricks to get more value out of reading, than just increasing the count of books? That’s what I am sharing with you in this post.
It is the time of new year resolutions, again.
This time I chose to come up with a post straight out of my personal notes for life. I got these from various sources — myself, books, Quora etc.
I read this so-called Cockroach theory a long time back. But recently it was made popular by Sundar Pichai of Google fame. Apparently he used it in one of his speeches.
If you didn’t have a chance to stumble upon this story, let me share it here.
Everyone of us crave to be productive. Productivity has the power of making us feel happy while achieving great feats. I would attribute it as a primary ingredient to success.
Let me share with you some simple yet powerful hacks that can boost your productivity. I use them and hence can vouch for them.
Couple of months back, I reduced my Facebook time to twice a week. Then I made it once a week and for the last 2 weeks I haven’t been on Facebook. What the hell am I doing?
Here is what my current Internet consumption looks like.
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My love affair with mind maps started about 5 years ago.
One day I saw a colleague of mine using it and gave a try with XMind. I fell in love with this way of organizing ideas, thoughts and all the relevant stuff. In due course, I started using some web based software like Mindmeister and Mindomo. I was happy.
And then, I saw Trello. It was probably about 6 months back. Playing with it for about an hour, I realized the following shortcomings with mind maps