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01/11/24

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Newsletter

Fun 30-day sprints!

31/10/24

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Product & design

Don’t limit offline studies to just your competitors for insights — study unrelated industries

30/10/24

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Newsletter

Looking for a therapist? Try this first.

29/10/24

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Product & design

“I don’t do drugs. I am drugs.”

28/10/24

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Product & design

QnA: Research, design-led projects, documenting design decisions.

27/10/24

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Managers

What can design leaders learn from one of the world’s most creative chefs?

26/10/24

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Newsletter

To the team making it happen

25/10/24

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Newsletter

Beats & breakthroughs: Turn music into your work focus pill!

24/10/24

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Content design

What if… D2C e-commerce took inspiration from museums?

23/10/24

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Newsletter

What if… you apply drama & ancient stories in fitness tech?

22/10/24

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Newsletter

What if… you apply game theory in kitchen appliances?

21/10/24

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Books & notes

What if… you mix Indian festivals and fitness?

20/10/24

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Newsletter

What if... you take photography principles and apply in face care?

19/10/24

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Managers

You need less meetings, more work!

18/10/24

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Designers

Get work feedback in unusual ways

17/10/24

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Newsletter

Ditch the usual. Try something different.

16/10/24

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Content design

How Randall Munroe created Thing Explainer

15/10/24

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Product & design

Better than inspiration? Deconstruct the classics

14/10/24

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Books & notes

Austin Kleon

13/10/24

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Hardware

Innovation: Xiaomi gets it!

12/10/24

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Designers

Pen & paper

11/10/24

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Product & design

Cross-pollination. The most important skill to develop after taste.

10/10/24

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Newsletter

Create for one person

09/10/24

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Designers

It's not what you see, it's what you don't!

08/10/24

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Hardware

My hardware design reading list

07/10/24

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Product & design

Expose yourself

06/10/24

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Newsletter

Hack your workspace

05/10/24

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Product & design

Designers, becoming the generic PM isn’t the goal.

04/10/24

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Designers

You don't have 10,000 hours!

03/10/24

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Newsletter

Designers, create your weird… with constraints.

02/10/24

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Newsletter

Become productive by resting the right way

01/10/24

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Designers

Your biggest advantage? Not knowing how.

28/09/24

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Newsletter

Useful, great products

19/09/24

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Books & notes

Book notes: Dance first. Think later.

27/08/24

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Hardware

Inside USB-C — Explained

10/08/24

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Managers

Simple exercise #4 for managers for 25 weeks

09/08/24

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Books & notes

Book notes: Automotive alchemy in India

27/07/24

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Books & notes

Book notes: 101 things I learned in product design school

27/07/24

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Newsletter

Good and bad product experiences, sunglasses & links

21/07/24

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Managers

Simple exercise #3 for managers for 25 weeks

21/07/24

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Newsletter

The modular bottle, hardware design, and some more

20/07/24

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Newsletter

It's not just a water bottle!

19/07/24

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Designers

Obsession vs. feature designers

14/07/24

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Managers

Simple exercise #2 for managers for 25 weeks

10/07/24

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Newsletter

Quick 2024 mid-year reflection

08/07/24

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Newsletter

How I complete tasks

07/07/24

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Managers

Simple exercise #1 for managers for 25 weeks

28/06/24

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Newsletter

Things I wish were better

05/06/24

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Newsletter

Meditating by writing

05/06/24

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Books & notes

How I read books and take notes

04/06/24

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Books & notes

Books wishlist

03/06/24

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Newsletter

8 highly useful & cheap stuff

02/06/24

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Newsletter

21 great, short videos about loved brands

01/06/24

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Managers

Excitement & hiring

31/05/24

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Product & design

I'm hiring a stellar infographics designer

30/05/24

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Books & notes

Super-massive list of 172 visual explainer books

29/05/24

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Newsletter

Four things that just don't work

28/05/24

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Books & notes

Books I read this year till May

17/05/24

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Product & design

Office office — Urban Company Bengaluru

06/05/24

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Newsletter

Zomato, Karnataka travel spots, time management

30/04/24

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Newsletter

Picking a book & reading, Q1 2024 read list

29/04/24

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Newsletter

Car designs, travel influencers, fitness trackers

28/04/24

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Books & notes

Book notes: Build

27/04/24

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Books & notes

Unusual books for designers in Real-estate tech

26/04/24

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Books & notes

Book notes: Xiaomi

26/04/24

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Books & notes

Book notes: The economy class founder

23/04/24

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Books & notes

Book notes: The 22 immutable laws of marketing

13/04/24

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Books & notes

A list of books when designing hardware

07/04/24

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Books & notes

Book notes: The goal

31/03/24

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Books & notes

Book notes: The boy, the mole, the fox and the horse

19/02/24

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Product & design

Ultrahuman ring is amazing, app is not

01/02/24

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Books & notes

Book notes: The making of a manager

22/01/24

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Books & notes

Book notes: Inside Apple

17/01/24

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Product & design

Designing physical products

16/01/24

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Content design

Airport announcement

15/01/24

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Books & notes

List of folks to follow for HUD, FUIs

14/01/24

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Managers

On hiring questions & A-players

13/01/24

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Newsletter

I wish people would do these two things

12/01/24

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Designers

Do a lot of work

11/01/24

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Templates

Working with me — Updated 2024

10/01/24

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Managers

DIY guide to leading design — a primer

10/01/24

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Designers

First job vs. now

09/01/24

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Managers

Bad design managers

08/01/24

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Newsletter

2023 highlights

07/01/24

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Managers

Coaching a researcher — a sneak peek

06/01/24

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Product & design

What if... a series of quirky, useful, random ideas for Urban Company

05/01/24

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Books & notes

Book notes: Creativity — a short and cheerful guide

04/01/24

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Managers

Hands-on. Hands-off. Staying a creator.

03/01/24

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Books & notes

Book notes: Unreasonable hospitality

02/01/24

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Books & notes

Book notes: Eat. Delete.

01/01/24

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Books & notes

Book notes: A technique for producing ideas

31/12/23

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Managers

We are not at war

30/12/23

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Content design

Book recommendations for content writers

29/12/23

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Managers

Coaching team members

28/12/23

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Managers

Beyond just a manager

16/12/23

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Newsletter

Quoteyard

01/11/23

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Newsletter

Places to visit in Europe for shopaholic designers

28/10/23

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Books & notes

Book notes: Culture at Zomato

01/09/23

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Designers

Generalists vs. multi-skilled specialists

19/08/23

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Content design

The making of a magazine

09/05/23

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Designers

AMA: Choices and motivation

06/05/23

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Books & notes

Book notes: Gung Ho by Ken Blanchard

15/04/23

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Designers

Improve your taste

14/04/23

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Product & design

10 star service design

10/04/23

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Managers

Career growth ladders are useless

07/04/23

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Books & notes

Book notes: Raving Fans by Ken Blanchard

03/04/23

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Newsletter

35 aphorisms on turning 35

02/04/23

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Product & design

More biases in apps

01/04/23

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Managers

Super swag to stun your squad

28/03/23

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Templates

Working with me

25/03/23

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Product & design

Biases in apps

28/08/22

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Designers

88 tips for young product designers

06/06/22

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Designers

First Principles

10/05/22

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Designers

A simple underrated method to iterate design better, faster

06/05/22

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Content design

Demystifying content design at Urban Company

04/05/22

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Templates

5 simple techniques I use to stay productive

02/05/22

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Designers

Your portfolio is stopping you from getting that job

01/05/22

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Managers

This little habit saved me 100s of hours in design reviews

28/03/22

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Books & notes

Book notes: Trillion dollar coach

21/09/21

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Books & notes

Book notes: The 4-hour workweek

24/01/21

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Books & notes

Book notes: Anything you want

24/11/20

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Product & design

3 kinds of users in analytics & BI

17/10/20

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Managers

The right way to turn down a candidate

15/05/20

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Designers

47 tips for young product designers

01/05/20

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Designers

'UI' design vs designing 'I' for 'U'

06/03/20

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Managers

Design your team the way you'd design your product

03/03/20

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Designers

Design communities aren't the users. Your end users are.

02/03/20

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Designers

Make yourself dispensable

01/03/20

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Designers

Solutions will fail you. Problems won't.

29/02/20

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Designers

Invest in planning your career

28/02/20

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Managers

Don't expect repay, encourage paying forward

25/02/20

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Managers

Don't pay the asshole tax

21/02/20

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Designers

Focus on knowledge, not information

18/02/20

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Managers

Fuck instant gratification - invest time in your team

14/02/20

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Managers

Make your team future ready

28/01/20

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Books & notes

Talk notes: A roadmap for maturing design in the enterprise

06/01/20

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Books & notes

Talk notes: How human abilities define digital experiences

28/10/18

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Books & notes

Book notes: The tao of coaching

26/10/18

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Books & notes

Data visualisation & analytics resources for designers

03/05/18

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Designers

5 simple ways to not suck with your design job application

12/12/17

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Managers

First time Design Lead? Do these 4 things first.

01/10/17

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Product & design

How we doubled our landing page conversion with 5 changes

28/08/17

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Books & notes

Book notes: You, Inc.

24/08/17

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Designers

4 reasons why your application for the Product Designer role won’t be shortlisted

10/06/17

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Designers

10 things before you join a startup as a Product Designer (Part 2)

20/03/17

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Product & design

How we trimmed our features in half with a 5-days design sprint

22/02/17

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Designers

10 things before you join a startup as a Product Designer (Part 1)

28/02/15

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Newsletter

Moving to Mumbai. Again.

10/10/14

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Newsletter

Cost of ambition

16/09/14

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Newsletter

7 things Kyoorius Designyatra 2014 taught me and a missed flight

07/11/13

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Designers

Weekend side-project: Re-designing Goodreads

01/10/13

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Newsletter

Ember. Personal Pinterest on your Mac.

06/07/13

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Newsletter

Good reads I found on the Internet

02/07/13

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Newsletter

Not an average admirer

16/06/13

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Newsletter

Learnings from Eric Jordon of 2Advanced

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