Digital Garden is a collection of notes, resources, ideas, quotes, or summaries shared publicly. Unlike a blog post or a published essay, there is no publication date in a digital garden. Everything published in a Digital Garden is evergreen and grows over time. Nothing is considered finished work, and the garden evolves. Digital Gardens are usually lightweight and focus on text and content over the fancy styling features of modern websites....
Beginning in April 2021, I decided to get back into reading and take up the 52 books in a year challenge. Over the years, I have read multiple books but hardly remember any insights from those books or apply any of those learnings in my life. I wanted to improve this process and started researching various ways to effectively read books . Since I’m using a Kindle to read, I started highlighting books and taking smart notes while reading....
Delta-4 is a theory coined by Kunal Shah , the founder of the CRED app and former founder of Freecharge (acquired by Snapdeal for $450M), on ‘How to evaluate your startup idea?’. It can be used as a framework for self-assessment to evaluate ideas or startups to see whether they are on a path towards creating wealth. This blog post is a summary of some research and notes prepared by me while watching Kunal’s talk at the TechSparks Summit....
A thought experiment is an imagined sequence of events used to evaluate the consequences and outcomes of a hypothesis, theory, or principle. The Ovarian Lottery is a thought experiment popularized by Warren Buffett , one of the greatest investors of all time. The experiment was inspired by concepts from the book ‘A Theory of Justice ’ by philosopher John Rawls , which argues that a truly just society can only be created when everyone agrees on its principles without knowing where they’ll land in the society....
Brilliance and genius are often traits associated with STEM fields like mathematics, physics, engineering, etc. Despite multiple studies showing that gender plays no role in brilliance, brilliance is often attributed to men. Brilliance bias is the tendency to consider brilliance as a male characteristic. An illustration of brilliance bias by Sketchplanations Our history books include few women, so subconsciously, from a young age, men are often our first thought when we consider brilliant people....