Life Experiences
Writing Your 2020 Goals With Air, Earth, Fire, and Water
Are you writing your 2020 goals now? Are you yet to begin? Great! Use this proven way to write them to achieve balance in your life.
Travel Safely and Economically: Lessons from Roaming Southeast Asia
Are you packing your bags for a solo trip? Don’t leave just yet. Make sure read this once before you leave to ensure you travel safely and economically.
Living on Loans to Living on Paychecks — A Product Manager’s Diary #9
There are two kinds of people in the world: Those who divide everybody into two kinds of people, and those who don’t. I alluded to taking a training on 7 Habits of Highly Effective People in my previous month’s article. One component involved playing...
Technology & Society
Notion — A Product That Users Love, and VCs Can’t Invest Into
In 2015, Notion was on the brink of failure. They had burned through the cash they had, the tech stack they built was sub-optimal and users weren’t raving about the product. It took two and half years and an insane amount of design iteration and UX permutation until they reached a point to launch it again — Notion 1.0. And now? A million users and counting.
WeWork — Most Overvalued Start-up or Catch of A Lifetime?
[This was initially published in The Startup, one of the largest Medium publications.] How GreenDesk became WeWork — The Initial Days Miguel McKelvey thought he was just going to his friend Gil’s house to spend a Saturday night. But as he and Gil got on to the...
Immigration Laws and H-1B Restrictions Are Not the Only Enemy
Most people tend to think lack of jobs in America is due to the stringent laws. But if they dig a little deeper, they would see a different story entirely.
Education & Career
How To Be Productive – But Not Busy
Have you felt the intense pressure to be productive? To always look for the next thing to check off your to-do list? This might just be counter-productive. In this day and age where productivity is overrated, what will really help you is rather Deep Work. Here’s a glimpse into that.
How To Crush Your Product Management Interview Preparation — Ultimate Guide For All Aspiring PMs
Let’s face it — it’s not easy preparing for an interview. They say it takes a village to raise a child. Pulling in that analogy, it does take a small village — your referral, your friends, your mentors, your mock practice partners and hopefully this article — to give...
How To Ask Effective Questions
When we have a question, our first instinct is to go ask it right away to a friend, senior, or mentor. We don't spend time to think by ourselves. But in this age of technology, we can find everything online. I am completely in support for asking questions,...