Weekend productivity has very little to do with hustle. In fact, the biggest challenge of weekends is often the opposite: too much unstructured freedom. An entire day with no meetings, no deadlines, and no fixed schedule can quietly drift into endless scrolling, random YouTube videos, “just one more episode” [...]
I once came across a humorous parody of the classic advice columns you often see in magazines. (I’m paraphrasing here, but the spirit is intact.) Reader 1: “I never feel hungry. What should I do?” Expert: “Read Sahastra Pakakriya (सहस्त्र पाकक्रिया).” (A grand old-style title — roughly, a compendium [...]
प्रस्तावना कधीकाळी, काही फार वर्षांपूर्वी नाही, एखादे नवीन ठिकाण शोधायचे म्हणजे, रस्त्यावर कोणालातरी विचारावे लागायचे. मग त्यांच्या हातवाऱ्याइतकेच त्यांच्या आत्मविश्वासाचेही वाचन करावे लागायचे. कारण तुम्हाला माहीतच आहे. लोकांना तुम्हाला भलत्या दिशेला पाठवणे चालते पण "माहित नाही” म्हणणे चालत नाही. आपण पण नेमके अशाच व्यक्तीला पत्ता विचारतो जो कि त्या [...]
रविंद्र: तू बऱ्याच दिवसांपासून मला विचारते आहेस की हे मशीन लर्निंग म्हणजे नक्की काय? अंजली: हो ना! म्हणजे, जेव्हा आपण AI किंवा कृत्रिम बुद्धिमत्ता आणि अशात चॅटजीपीटी (ChatGPT) वगैरे बद्दल बोलतो, तेव्हा थोडीफार कल्पना येते, पण मशीन लर्निंग म्हणजे काय हे मात्र माहिती नाही. काहीतरी संबंधितच असेल असे मात्र वाटते. रविंद्र: अगदी बरोबर. कृत्रिम [...]
I remember my mother constantly reminding everyone around her about one thing: budget your money. Don’t overspend. Save for the future. Stay disciplined. At the time, it sounded like good advice. But its real weight became clear only when I saw people around us struggle because they ignored it. As my [...]
Most of my writing is about organizing digital life. Ironically, the physical world—where we were first taught to “keep things in place”—is where we struggle just as much. This is not about decluttering or aesthetics—the domain of professional organizers who can make your space look beautiful. I’m not talking [...]
How to Be a Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life by Massimo Pigliucci My rating: 4 of 5 stars While exploring Stoicism, I was looking for one coherent book by a credible author—something that explains the philosophy systematically. I didn’t want just a collection of aphorisms, [...]
You plan your day perfectly at 9 AM. By 11:30, it’s already irrelevant. A call runs over. An urgent issue pops up. A “quick” task takes two hours. And just like that, your carefully time-blocked schedule collapses. If this sounds familiar, the problem isn’t your discipline. It’s how our world works. [...]
I often think about the two women who have shaped my approach to work more than anyone else—my Mom and my Wife. They are very different from each other. In fact, they are almost opposites. But in my life, those opposites shaped me. My Mom and my Wife are two [...]
One of the most subtle productivity errors does not look like an error at all. It looks like initiative. It feels like momentum. It even feels disciplined. It is this: starting the day with the first task that grabs your attention. I call this behavior: running with the first task [...]