Entrepreneurship Clarifying your value proposition Pitch to someone outside your domain to get a new perspective I had the opportunity to engage with a host from outside the software development world during a recent podcast. My podcast host had prepped on my website, and he had honed in on the value proposition. “80% of your
AI Interview with Kohsuke Kawaguchi - co-CEO Launchable Inc and creator of Jenkins Gradient descending through life, work, and entrepreneurship "Sell, Design & Build" – evergreen advice for aspiring entrepreneurs An investigator walks into a murder scene only to find that it is a case of multiple homicides and that murders aren't the handiwork of a single murderer, but there
Entrepreneurship Featured An Entrepreneur's Swiss Army Knife Staying curious, adaptable, and learning continuously. Most of the podcast discussed the challenges of scaling as an entrepreneur, particularly prioritizing the important over the urgent.
Meditation Featured Finding Solace in Gratitude—The Birth of My Online Meditation Course Beating Stress, Anxiety, and Finding Joy Last November (2023), amidst the festive spirit, I wanted to give back and embarked on a journey I hadn't anticipated. It began with me offering an online beginner meditation retreat—a small gesture to share meditation's profound and life-changing benefits
Meditation I am offering my first meditation retreat - join me Here is something that I have thought of offering for a while. EventsThe Gratitude Path: A free Online Weekend Meditation Retreat at Home - Dec 9, 16 and 23. An Hourly Beginners Meditation Series for better stress management. When Dec 9, Dec 16 and Dec 23rd. 3 x One Hour
Meditation Explore the Marvel Within: A 10-minute Gratitude Meditation Series 🌟 Dive into our gratitude meditation series designed to celebrate and appreciate the marvels of the human body. From the senses to the nervous system, and from the digestive to the cardiovascular system, each guided meditation offers a unique journey of mindfulness and gratitude.
Meditation From Bite to Energy: A guided meditation appreciating our digestive system Experience gratitude for your digestive system with our 10-minute guided meditation. Join us in thanking each organ for its vital role in transforming food into energy.
Meditation Embracing Our Five Senses - A Gratitude Meditation Journey Discover the transformative power of gratitude with our 10-minute meditation focused on appreciating the five senses. This guided journey helps you connect deeply with your body, enhancing mindfulness and grounding you in the present.
Meditation Thanking your cardiovascular system—an exercise in gratitude meditation Embrace a journey of gratitude through your cardiovascular system with our 10-minute meditation. Explore and appreciate your heart, arteries, veins, capillaries, and blood, enhancing inner peace and mindfulness.
Meditation Discovering Inner Harmony: A Gratitude Meditation Journey Through the Nervous System Embark on a transformative 10-minute gratitude meditation journey, delving deep into the marvels of your nervous system. Enhance mindfulness, reduce stress, and foster inner peace with our expertly guided session. Explore my blog and YouTube channel for a holistic meditation experience.
Product interview for Issue Triage Reaching out to my developer and quality engineering friends. At Launchable, I am working on a problem typically called "Issue or Bug Triaging". The phase in software delivery where the code has been pushed and testing (typically post-merge) has uncovered a bunch of issues. Now, begins the challenge
Meditation Achievement unlocked - Enlightenment attained Should I talk about this? This has been a question that I have struggled with in the last couple of months. I felt, and continue to feel, incredibly vulnerable sharing the “this” in the picture. The “this” is that I had my awakening and am now enlightened, having transitioned about
2022 PICT96 "jab we met" reunion recap The idea for the reunion started in my living room—as a side conversation. We were trying to distract Natasha from an incredibly stressful week. My mother-in-law had passed away about a week or two earlier. We still were walking through the logistics of her funeral and working on getting
Meditation Assessing 26 years of meditation practice The last 90 days have been tumultous. I reluctantly accepted that my meditation practice stuttered in the years of covid. I have been talking to myself (& others) as though my practice was all fine but it wasn't. I had skipped way more days than I actually practiced
health Cycling (virtually) Milan to Venice Early last year, I was thinking about picking up some way to exercise regularly. My last hiking trip to Everest Base Camp was too far in the past and I wanted to set an exciting goal. I decided to pick up cycling. I was an avid cycler in school days
Entrepreneurship Featured Building a startup — 9 lessons from my hike to Everest Base Camp We were completely tired after a 6 hour hike to Phakding (8.6k feet). Crushed is a better description. It was the end of day 1 — the easiest hiking day and mostly downhill. The hardest part was supposed to be landing at the Lukla airport (9.3k feet) considered as
Entrepreneurship Get Shit Done days - making time for deep work I sighed with resignation as I looked at my completely packed calendar. “Quality” work delivered between meetings or after work, juggling email and slack responses while doing so. I had become a highly paid email and task traffic handler — routing tasks than doing them. Anything that took a reasonable amount
Productivity 3% flywheel method - a system to make daily progress on goals T’is is the season for setting goals. If you set goals and struggle to achieve them then I have a system that sets a flywheel of momentum going and helps you achieve these goals. The approach was tested in 2020 and has held up fairly well for me. It
Entrepreneurship Building differentiation - a mental model Lately, I am reading a book called Different: Escaping the Competitive Herd by Youngme Moon. The book writes about why intense competition begets homogeneity. The writing resonated with me and wrote this note for my Zettlekasten. Examples heavily inspired by the author (all credit to her). When you measure something,
Meditation Using a rubber band to become positive Someone close to me is going through tough times. His health is not where it used to be and trips to the doctors are wearing him down. I can see a downward spiral as his morale dips down with each new trip to the doctor. Negative thoughts reproduce themselves faster
Find the middle way in a hyper opinionated world > Opinion A: The Muslims are out to kill Hindus. The Hindus will take control and finally get back for the 1,000 years of subjugation. Opinion B: The Hindus are out to kill muslims but Muslims will push back and will build an Islamic sharia in India. The above
Entrepreneurship Step up and lead. It is expected. Today, I met an ex-colleague piqued with his current organization. He asked me for input to navigate his environment since I understand its ebbs and flows. My analysis… He is waiting for someone to give him permission to offer his perspectives. He has opinions but he is holding them back.
Entrepreneurship 6 tips to finding mentors Life as an entrepreneur is exciting because it throws completely new challenges your way. In the last few weeks, a new challenge popped up on my radar that requires stretching way outside my comfort zone. Handling this challenge requires velvet gloves. Though, the interwebs have an article for every situation,
Entrepreneurship User centered thinking - whats the right speed limit in a garage What is the right speed for driving a car in a car parking lot? What is the acceptable speed range that we should be driving in a car park? Is it 8, 15, 22 mph? Coming to think of it — Who thinks about the user experience of driving through a
Entrepreneurship Framework to build loveable products Recently, I came across a pictorial that showed all the products in the DevOps market and the sheer number was mind boggling. As the head of products at CloudBees, I am often asked about recipes to build standout products in such markets and I will share my thoughts here. I
