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Adora Cheung is a partner at Y Combinator, a bachelors in Computer Science and a taskmaster.

I came across her talk at one of the Y-Combinator summits tagged in one of the newsletters by my friend Sathya on Twitter.

It was more about and for Startup founders. I looked at it for productivity enhancement learning. I am writing header wise for this post just to organise my haphazard thoughts to match with my writing speed!

The KPIs

The most important thing when it comes to gauging our productivity is to know the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) we are treading on. Rather it is better to tap into and decide what KPIs we are treading on.

There might be ‘n‘ number of performance indicators we that may come up with our every day efforts we take throughout our day. It is direly necessary to prioritize which one are ‘key’ amongst them.

Real vs. fake progress

Real progress is the one that makes a real positive impact on the way forward. Real progress gives you a positive feedback on the way you have decided to move forward.

It determines whether your way is the right way or one needs to make a course correction.

It is good to keep weekly goals and a feedback checking mechanism in place.

Task prioritization

Journaling forms the important part to know what exactly we won and what we need to work on more.

An hour by hour introspection of the day can give a clearer picture. Logging our ideas into spreadsheet can be most efficient way to have an organized ledger of our goals.

It helps keeping a check on which goals we have achieved and to what extent. These goals can be graded to high medium and low.

Which amongst the above do you think is an important change to be brought about in your day to day life activities?

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This might be a touchy topic. Most of us have that feeling in the moments of hardships. This is entirely different from the situation in which people tend to run away from their problems.

This moment arrives after constantly trying to work something out and then fail at an instance. This instance occurs usually after certain number of tries to go through a problem.

The number of iterations do let us learn in an unsupervised way. The constant hurdles to leap ahead can be treated itself as checkpoints.

The catch is how much time we invest in completing those checkpoints? Or how much we iterate our strategies and actions to overcome that hurdle?

The answer to this question is what matters in the end.

What do you feel about it?

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The basic understanding of something comes out of the fact that brain registers it onto its notebook. I am putting it in a very easier sense of understanding although there are complex processes involved.

The title was the opening line of one of the lectures by Jiddu Krishnamurthy ji. The knowledge, he said, can be of any form— spiritual knowledge, technological knowledg, knowledge about medicine say surgery and anything under the Sun!

The real question is about how and why does the brain registers the flow of knowledge or information reaching it? And is every little piece of information reaching out brain is important piece of information? And can any piece of information make our brain to get disturbed?

All these questions if addressed cumulatively we can arrive onto three consolidated questions that may answer all this conundrum together.

  1. Is it really necessary to have knowledge that is coming to me?

  2. Does it bring any clarity to me?

  3. Does it increase my energy or bring about a positive change in me or give me a sense of freedom?

If we get to find answers to above questions then we can find an important manifestation that maybe generic in sense but it can be framed as following:

  1. Certain kind of knowledge is important but not all knowledge is important.

  2. Brain needs to be kept away from certain kind of knowledge. This becomes necessary as a part of the safety and security of brain.

    This speech of his came up to me on J. Krishnamurthy foundation’s video sources.

    What do you feel about this necessary protection for brain?

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I got a chance to view the Money, Explained documentary from the ‘Explained’ series on the Netflix.

It is marvelous in the sense that the OTT platforms like Netflix at least partly let the content be out of the purview of censorship.

Most of us are getting exposed to a variety of options in investing, precisely they are called instruments, I think! We are getting exposed to many financial instruments as such.

With more options comes more conundrum. I am no different to that situation. I was viewing the documentary series just yesterday.

It is a five part series that has titles that actually define the storyline of the episode. I preferred watching the episode on credit cards and the one on retirement risks.

I hail from India. Most of the content in the documentary is from US context. Still it is enthralling to watch how flat I can fall if I don’t plan my retirement being prone to a plethora of private jobs and job switching.

That might even be the case even if I plan my retirement and the inflation skyrockets!

The documentary takes us through various tax regimes that many nations takes its subjects through, inadvertently.

Most people from our parent’s age retiring from the government jobs lately and I think from now, going forward the white collar government jobs will be a bleak possibility for the unreserved category students in India.

I was going through the documentary with all these thoughts brimmming up!

What do you say about it? Have you watched the documentary yet?

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I'm fond of materialistic achievements to some extent. Our brain secretly loves to have that short bursts of pleasure of unboxing a new product.

Buying something new has become easier provided according to the consuming power one has. I, in my life until now have not invested more than a ₹1000 on headphones, I swear on that.

But my overall investment may go high😬. Trying new things which many a times go our of my forté, I'm excited about doing that. Once I was not creating short videos, now I do that regularly, not to boast off, I try it on platform like Instagram. That development of habit for me created a requirement for having Bluetooth headphones for me. I hadn't used them before.

A good set of Bluetooth headphones make it easier for lesser audio cleaning and editing as a whole. Its use may make you wary of the intertwined wires of wired headphones!!

Just that you may equally get wary of the battery life of your Bluetooth headphones too!

What do you prefer afterall?

#ugichapla #bluetooth #100DaysToOffload

I have been writing on micro blogging sites like Twitter and LinkedIn since past few years.

Being there and writing consistently is something that is important when it comes to writing online and gain attention.

Writing on social media feels essential in instances of that attention one seeks. And it is all a fair game. The most common secret that every expert and proven player on social media talks about blockbuster content is 'finding a niché'.

There are two ways to find a niche largely. One is you can keep doing something, keep talking in front of camera and see what catches eyeballs. Then check for the stats and iterate what works. The other way is you find your calling and that majestically matches with audience's attention.

That is most lucky and equally rare case. Most creators—writers, video creators, podcast creators etc., go through the first route and that takes consistent efforts and time.

In my case I feel like I'm in most initial phase of that struggle and that too for like three years now. Keeping an open slate to learn new things and constantly searching for hooks to work things out that's what it takes.

What is your checkpoint on that road?!!

#ugichapla #niche #100DaysToOffload

I try to discuss my struggles at the subconscious or cognitive level here. If you resonate with it, please do leave a trail in some way—by subscribing to my blog, dropping a comment sharing it with someone who needs it, anyhow.

So,..I started my day today on an active note. Woke up at around 7 a.m. Actually that is my upper threshold these days! I have added indoor cycling to my morning rather early morning routine. That is helping me to feel active everyday, maybe some extent.

The real struggle is not only being consistent with the exercise, it is also controlled eating. I'm a voracious eater. I eat out of stress, that stress is itself the craving for eating. Then I get curious about why I ate something.

Few months back I met a friend out of #openmics I did for comedy. He is doing a full time course in healthcare. I tried to woo him for guiding me through. He couldn't. He gave up on me, without letting me feeling bad for it. He wasn't the culprit. I am!

I have restarted that zeal again, now I feel like I have established an iterative model to loose close to 1000 calories, minimum 600 daily, yup that is the range.

Wish me luck!!

#ugichapla #startingover

A dear friend recommended me the game in the first lockdown here in India. At first I was way... away from gaming and gaming on mobile was not on my list or fate anyhow!

The game looks pretty simpler while one gets accustomed to it. I am talking here about my cognitive adaptability while getting onboard at the game and how. So, at first all the colours and holding the game horizontally...all that was overwhelming.

I was in knowledge of how eSports are evolving in India. But never thought I would do something of that level just without earning any money😅😂.

Most high end games on mobile come with good graphics and audio these days and you need some degree of upping the anté to explore various levels of the game. And of course one needs friends.

That is an essential requirement. And if you come from a status driven society like India, it becomes an important attribute to have “friends” to do most cathartic activities and mostly cathartic activities.

I will be talking all around the game but not all about it. So in 2020, India was under lockdown owing to Covid19. In this time, a lot of upheaval happened on social media too.

Here in India Pubg was one big mobile game that was indulged into, by most teenagers to adolescents and many 'to be' adults. In this lockdown and first wave of covid, many Chinese apps were banned. This game had a huge...huge user base in India. (It still has!)

Banning the app created a void in mobile devices of many folks. Now,..marketing is an aggressive thing. The moment Pubg was banned, the Call of Duty started working heavily on their UI and overall experience and perks.

It is around that time I was recommended by the friend with that game. And now I'm trying my ways to limit its use.

Are you going through the same?

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