by Soundarya | Jan 5, 2022 | General Information, How To's, Life
In January 2020, I wrote down my goals for the year on a piece of post-it note, used the classical elements framework to check if they were balanced, and laminated it to hang it on my wall so I accomplish them. And, never looked at them again for the rest of...
by Soundarya Balasubramani | Dec 28, 2021 | General Information, How To's, Life
I ran my first live, online, cohort-based course in August 2021. The course was titled Mind Like Water (ft. Notion) (which is now renamed to More Time Everyday.) and it was aimed at helping students build a second brain using Notion, an all-in-one productivity...
by Soundarya | Feb 15, 2021 | General Information, How To's, Technology
Recently, I was watching an interview by Sam Alman, the CEO of OpenAI and former President of YCombinator, where he touched upon a dozen topics, two of which were “experimentation” and “productivity.” He says [about the culture at...
by Soundarya | Feb 5, 2021 | General Information, How To's
Language, fundamentally, is a lossy form of communication. Executing it via a medium like email only makes it worse. Figure: Communication speed in the digital brain era. Source: Wait But Why. Sadly, until the Elon Musks of the world build a neurotech...
by Soundarya | Apr 29, 2019 | General Information, How To's
I learnt a few days back that Seattle has a pseudonym — Lit City (short for literature, and not the colloquial term used by millennials to represent excitement). In October of 2017, UNESCO bestowed upon the city the honorable title, as part of UNESCO Creative Cities...
by Soundarya | Feb 1, 2019 | General Information, How To's
11:03 AM It was evaluation day. Sam and Ram, sitting in adjacent chairs, were both typing away ferociously into their keyboards. While one was replying to the e-mails received within a few minutes, the other was typing out the Business Strategy for the recently...
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