Our understanding of millennials * seem to be out of whack.
I am listening to this fascinating book – Inventing Ourselves, The secret life of the Teenage Brain by Sarah – Jayne Blakemore.
Sleep. Seriously. It is one of the most important aspects of our life
Mathew Walker, a neuroscientist and Director of UC Berkeley’s Sleep and Neuroimaging lab and Sleep scientist at Google makes a definitive case for Sleeping right and why you should care. In his 2018 much acclaimed book ‘Why We Sleep : Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams’ (Tomasz Tunguz lists it amongst his 10 favorite books in 2018) he presents facts and painstakingly covers multiple studies to offer a compelling case to pay attention and urgently fix your sleeping issues.
Universal Basic Income by 2030’s, billion-fold expansion of human intelligence, medical nanorobots to wipe out every disease.
Listening to Ray Kurzweil is always fascinating. For those of you who have not heard his intimate chat with Chris Anderson, curator of TED, in the The TED interview podcast.
Attention Residue is killing our ability to do meaningful work. Multitasking is a myth.
Prof Sophie Leroy, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, conducted two experiments where she found that people are less productive when they are multitasking or switching between tasks. In her 2009 research paper published as “Why is it so hard to do my work?…” : her abstract states : “…people need to stop thinking about one task in order to fully transition their attention and perform well on another. Yet, results indicate it is difficult for people to transition their attention away from an unfinished task and their subsequent task performance suffers.”
What I learnt from Rand on VC funding
I am a big fan of Rand Fishkin, founder of Moz and now Sparktoro, not only for what he built at Moz but primarily because of his openness in sharing his experiences and learnings. His recent book, “Lost and Founder” is a great read and an example of candidness, warts and all. Very few books bring that to the table.
Your apps know where you were last night!
If you are using apps for weather, news or local information ( finding petrol station or ATM) the data is available to anyone willing to pay a price and then analyse your daily habits, over days, accurate location recorded as frequently as every 15-20 minutes providing a detailed snapshot of everything you do.
Team or Money?
Today I attended a TiE meeting in Bangalore, featuring Prashanth (PV) Boccasam and Madan Padaki. The Topic was “Leveling Up about StartUps and Upstarts”. In the initial part of the program Prashanth narrated his choice of first job out of college, between IBM (offer of 76K) and Microsoft (33k).
Resolutions are a good way to kick-start aspirational behaviors.
Continuing on my Previous Blog – on addiction templates in apps, I was wondering if there is any basis to our large scale social behavior of New Year Resolutions. Why some carry them through and most don’t. Well it seems there is some basis.
Remote work is real option!
I was amazed when I learnt that Zapier actually had no office for their (then) 140 member team and everyone works remotely from all over the world. 37 Signals, now Basecamp championed the idea in their 2013 Book – Remote : Office not required. Written by @Jason Fried co-founder of Basecamp it is a must read to understand the changing dynamics. I highly recommend this.
The Spacebar Trick on the iPhone keyboard!
This one is for iPhone users. All of us know that it can be difficult to land the cursor exactly where you want it, using a finger. Sometimes a whole word gets selected, sometimes it lands a letter away making it tedious to move it a step to the left or right.
