Book Review Featured Two Selves: Experiencing vs. Remembering How we experience and remember things and how it affects our decision-making.
Book Review Featured The illusion of understanding Lessons from the book 'Thinking Fast and Slow' about how flawed our understanding is about the world!
Book Review Featured Understanding Trust: Types and Levels Discover Trust Types and Levels in Relationships: Insights from 'Think Like a Monk' by Jay Shetty.
Experiences Featured The MIP Computational Competition 2023 Journey through MIP competition: Striving solo, facing experts, and unexpected twists.
Experiences Featured 30 takeaways for my 30th birthday 30 takeaways from 15 books I read this year about learning, productivity, happiness, money, and blogging.
Book Review Featured Say no to everything Make time for exciting things by using the thumb rule of “Hell Yeah Or No”. Book by Derek Sivers.
Book Review Featured 5 lessons to live a happier life Key lessons from the book “The courage to be disliked” by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga.
Lifestyle Featured How to buy happiness Notes from the paper “If money doesn’t make you happy, then you probably aren’t spending it right” by Elizabeth Dunn, Daniel Gilbert, and Timothy Wilson.
Book Review Featured Lessons I learned from Robert Kiyosaki Why rich people don't work for money and make their money work for them? Lessons from the book “Rich Dad, Poor Dad.”
Lifestyle Featured The myth of motivation Is motivation important to get things done? Can we trick our minds to feel motivated to do essential things?
Lifestyle Featured Make the most of the unfair life Life is unfair. Or is it? Let's see if we can identify and leverage our unfair advantages. Tips from the book The Unfair Advantage.
Book Review Featured Methods for deeper learning Tips about learning effectively from the book Make it stick.
Book Review Featured How to deal with distractions Book Review and Notes from Nir Eyal Indistractable How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life
Lifestyle Featured My Thoughts and Experience on Work-Life Balance In this post, I will talk about the importance of work-life balance and my experience related to that. I didn’t know the concept of work-life balance before I moved to Paris in 2017. I was introduced to it by my French colleagues. While I will mostly talk about my
Academics Featured My Journey from a SWE at Google to a PhD student Recently almost everyone who met me, asked me why I left my (hidden words: high paying) job and decided to go for a PhD. I would normally end up giving them a short answer like "Because I wanted to get into academia" or "Because I wanted to
Negotiation Mirror, Mirror: Enhancing Your Connections Explore the subtle art of mirroring – Learn how to authentically connect with others. #Mirroring #Connection
Book Review What makes crucial conversations so hard? Tips from the book ‘Crucial Conversations’ by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, and Al Switzler.
Lifestyle My 2024 Goals My 2024 goals about PhD, career, finance, emotional intelligence, reading and more...
Experiences 2023 year in a review! Journey Through 2023: PhD Milestones, Finance, Books, and Chess Adventures!
Book Review Bookshelf Chronicles: 2023 Edition A list of books I read in 2023 along with a short review and a recommendation.
Book Review Optimal stopping: When to stop looking? Secretary problem and its application to house hunting, dating, hiring, and more!