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January 5, 2015 by Ashwin Leave a Comment

Books

“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. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Books, Self Development Tagged With: books, ideas, knowledge, productivity, reading, self development, thoughts

10 Sites to make you Productive on the Web

December 19, 2014 by Ashwin Leave a Comment

Productivity
Do you feel that you are spending too much time on Facebook or Twitter?  Do you feel less productive because of this?  Relax, Web is far wider than the social media websites.  In this post, I will share with you some websites which can make you feel productive and get some value out of the World Wide Web.
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Filed Under: Productivity, Social Media Tagged With: internet, knowledge, learning, useful, web, web tools, websites

Why is there a brain drain from Facebook to Quora?

September 22, 2014 by Ashwin Leave a Comment

Quora vs Facebook

Facebook took the social media by storm.  Between 2008 and 2013, Facebook saw a whopping growth of 1130% – when its user base rose from 100 Million to 1230 Million*.  But in the recent months (or probably years), there is quite an agitation that portrays Facebook as non-productive ** and further accentuated by a shift to Quora.  This post is a discussion on this topic.

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Filed Under: Social Media Tagged With: facebook, knowledge, quora, social media, social networks