I came to know about the concept of Resonance Journal when I watched Ali Abdaal’s video on how he uses Notion for keeping his resonance calendar . After watching the video, I felt like the term ‘Resonance Calendar’ was not apt for what I wanted to achieve. I decided to rename it as Resonance Journal and set up one similar to Ali on Notion. I currently use the Resonance Journal as a tool in my journey towards self-discovery....
Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual is a tiny book by Michael Pollan . I came to know about the book from Derek Siver’s website and thought of reading this. The book distills Pollan’s wisdom of food and diet into 64 simple rules for eating healthily and happily. The book is small and I finished it in less than an hour. Many ideas discussed in the book might already be known to you....
I started journaling when the second wave of Covid-19 hit India in April 2021. I’m not a daily journal person, though I would like to make it a daily habit. I journal my thoughts occasionally on Obsidian in digital format using Markdown. I also maintain an Idea Journal in public , a resonance journal in Notion , and a private art journal in Obsidian . The only journal I write in physical form is my Stress Journal....
The idea of meditation has always confused me. Being an atheist ( This is my bible! ) as well as a rationalist, I thought of it as another woo-woo thing. Woo-Woo basically means “ideas or methods that are based on false beliefs or imaginary things, rather than reason or scientific knowledge.” Earlier this year, I was backpacking through North India and I met many people who had life-changing experiences with meditation....
With the rising quantity of content on the internet, thanks to the boom of the creator economy, we are now at the age of information overload . Present-day AI is not yet powerful enough to wade through the vast information universe and provide content with context and intent. Curators are humans who bridge this gap by curating relevant information from the vastness available to us. Over the years, curators have become a vital part of information commerce....
Naval Ravikant, often called the ‘Angel Philosopher’ , is one of the greatest thinkers and entrepreneurs of this generation. Naval has this amazing ability to distill big, universal ideas and philosophies into bite-sized Twitter tweets . The book, ‘The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness’ , is a collection of Naval’s wisdom from Twitter, podcasts, and essays over the past decade. The author of the book, Eric Jorgenson , created a Twitter poll asking the audience whether he should compile Naval’s tweets into a book....
Digital Garden is a collection of notes, resources, ideas, quotes, or summaries shared publicly. Unlike a blog post or a published essay, there is no publication date in a digital garden. Everything published in a Digital Garden is evergreen and grows over time. Nothing is considered finished work, and the garden evolves. Digital Gardens are usually lightweight and focus on text and content over the fancy styling features of modern websites....
Beginning in April 2021, I decided to get back into reading and take up the 52 books in a year challenge. Over the years, I have read multiple books but hardly remember any insights from those books or apply any of those learnings in my life. I wanted to improve this process and started researching various ways to effectively read books . Since I’m using a Kindle to read, I started highlighting books and taking smart notes while reading....
Show Your Work by Austin Kleon is the main reason why I started this blog . Through the book, Austin teaches people how to think about their work as a never-ending process that attracts like-minded people. It explains why you don’t have to be a genius to present your ideas to the world. It stresses the importance of having a personal blog to share your ideas and how it will transform into a self-invention machine....
Delta-4 is a theory coined by Kunal Shah , the founder of the CRED app and former founder of Freecharge (acquired by Snapdeal for $450M), on ‘How to evaluate your startup idea?’. It can be used as a framework for self-assessment to evaluate ideas or startups to see whether they are on a path towards creating wealth. This blog post is a summary of some research and notes prepared by me while watching Kunal’s talk at the TechSparks Summit....
