When I turned 27 this year, during a flight journey I thought of scribbling down 27 lessons I’ve learned over the years. I’ve tried to keep these lessons as short as possible with maximum clarity. JOMO > FOMO . Embracing the Joy of Missing Out (JOMO) over Fear of Missing Out (FOMO) is the key to happiness and fulfillment over time. Organic Farming might sound sustainable and fancy, but it is not practical to use it to feed the rising population ....
IKEA Effect is a cognitive bias in which we overvalue products that we’ve built or created more than pre-assembled items. The IKEA Effect is the reason why we are in love with LEGO kits and IKEA furniture. It was named after the Swedish manufacturer and furniture retailer that sells furniture items requiring assembly. People’s love for IKEA products was explored by Michael I. Norton, Daniel Mochon, and Dan Ariely in a series of three experiments....
I came to know about the concept of Resonance Journal when I watched Ali Abdaal’s video on how he uses Notion for keeping his resonance calendar . After watching the video, I felt like the term ‘Resonance Calendar’ was not apt for what I wanted to achieve. I decided to rename it as Resonance Journal and set up one similar to Ali on Notion. I currently use the Resonance Journal as a tool in my journey towards self-discovery....
Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual is a tiny book by Michael Pollan . I came to know about the book from Derek Siver’s website and thought of reading this. The book distills Pollan’s wisdom of food and diet into 64 simple rules for eating healthily and happily. The book is small and I finished it in less than an hour. Many ideas discussed in the book might already be known to you....
With the rising quantity of content on the internet, thanks to the boom of the creator economy, we are now at the age of information overload . Present-day AI is not yet powerful enough to wade through the vast information universe and provide content with context and intent. Curators are humans who bridge this gap by curating relevant information from the vastness available to us. Over the years, curators have become a vital part of information commerce....