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Living Deliberately: The Importance of Long Walks, Paintings, and Board Games

Growing up, I didn't own a computer. That gave me a lot of free time to play with friends, take long walks, go out on bike trips, read books, and do paintings. Unknowingly, I was living deliberately.

Digital Declutter: The Crucial Philosophy Nobody Ever Taught You

Technology, despite making our lives efficient, has also added a lot of complexities. It has stolen our time from us. Whether we are doing work or scrolling mindlessly, we are always connected to others, and that’s where lies the problem.

How to Make Money by Building Something Bragworthy

Instead of USP, focus on UBP i.e., your Unique Bragworthy Proposition. When you make a product or service that is significantly better and far more efficient, your users brag about it to others thereby becoming your biggest evangelists.

What’s The Most Difficult Leadership Skill?

Organisational design, process design, metrics, hiring and firing are all relatively straightforward skills to master. There’s not much ambiguity. But the toughest skill a leader has to master is to manage your own mindset.

The Limits of Our Knowledge: Why Only a Few Know How to Avoid Bad Decisions

Awareness of the limited extend of your knowledge is an essential component in decision making, yet it’s easily missed. Crises like the 2008 housing market crash and the Coronavirus pandemic have made it even more obvious just how little we know about the future.

The Inner Scorecard: How Good Do You Want To Be?

“The big question about how people behave is whether they’ve got an Inner Scorecard or an Outer Scorecard. It helps if you can be satisfied with an Inner Scorecard.” — Warren Buffett

The Feynman Technique: The Ultimate Guide to Learn Anything

The Feynman Technique is a learning concept you can use to understand just about anything. This technique doesn’t let us fool ourselves into thinking we’re masters of a subject when we’re really amateurs.

Richard Feynman On The Difference Between Knowing the Name of Something and Knowing Something

Knowing the name of something doesn’t mean you understand it. In order to talk to each other, we have to have words, but we often talk in fact-deficient, obfuscating generalities to cover up our lack of understanding.