Category Archives: self-improvement

Hearing Audiobooks

One of the easy ways to “read” a lot of books is to get their audiobook versions and hear them while commuting to work. Since you cannot typically do anything else while driving, the time is well spent. But there … Continue reading

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Incremental Progress

If you have a dream about achieving something, one of the biggest illusions you can have is to wait for the right circumstances to open up so that you can start working on your dream. This includes stuff like: I … Continue reading

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Natural Things To Do

I am an advocate of programmers starting their own blogs so that they can share their thoughts on programming and software development. But this is not necessarily a natural thing to do because writing is different from programming. The natural … Continue reading

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Entrepreneurs Today

Matt at 37 Signals writes: The term entrepreneur feels outdated. It’s associated with people who work brutal hours, invest their life savings, and risk it all on a dream. But these days, you can do a ton with just a … Continue reading

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Screen Sucking

I first came across the phrase “screen sucking” in Edward Hallowell’s “Crazy Busy”, an otherwise forgettable book. It is an apt term for how we spend hours online surfing without any end instead of getting on with our work. Not … Continue reading

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The “Do It When You Can” Technique

Self-help techniques often ask you to come up with a schedule that works for you. Go to the gym “x” times a week. Set apart 1 hour daily for some self-improvement activity. Only spend so many hours on this and … Continue reading

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