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 the…

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. …

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. …

Yoshiori Shoji leads our engineering team at Launchable. He has a huge tech following in Japan and was recently was interviewed by findy-code.io (an engineering recruitment firm). Yoshiori is extremely passionate about building a great engineering culture and continuously learning (which seems to be a theme in Launchable). Here are…

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).

4.22.2020: Positive News 9 out of 10 cities see massive drop in pollution. Delhi down 60% from a year before. Other news: NY no longer needs the Navy ship. Discovery of synthetic DNA that fights COVID19. https://covid19positivenews.com/2020/04/22/9-in-10-cities-in-the-world-see-massive-drop-in-pollution/

I started a blog called COVID19positivenews.com because I am tired of being bombarded with negative news. Starting today, I will post the news here as well so that Medium can get in front of people who might need it. 4.21.202 — Six stories today: 98 year old who fought in WW2 suffered from diseases like malaria and was a POW recovers. Doesn’t know what all the fuss is about :-). Captain Moore keeps breaking records and has raised £27M pounds for NHS.

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. …

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 polar opposite…