# Rajesh Namase

> A personal journal by Rajesh Namase, kept at https://namase.com since 2010. Entries on work, money, time and the life around them.

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## Start here

- [Always listen to your inner voice](https://namase.com/journal/listen-to-your-inner-voice.md): Three times a quiet voice told me to leave what was safe: quitting TCS, starting a business with a friend, and renting an office for 50. It was right each time.
- [I do not have time is an excuse, not a reason](https://namase.com/journal/no-time-is-an-excuse.md): The excuse I hear most from friends is that there is no time. The transformation people noticed after two years, and the honest accounting of hours behind it.
- [When you master your spending, you master life](https://namase.com/journal/master-your-spending.md): A four-way split for every rupee you earn, borrowed from the Rigveda, and the budgeting habit that separates a happy life from a frustrated one.
- [My biggest motivation is to keep challenging myself](https://namase.com/journal/keep-challenging-myself.md): After the Himalayan trip I admitted I had missed two years of targets by underestimating myself. Being a serial entrepreneur is harder than a bio makes it sound.
- [A productivity hack I actually use](https://namase.com/journal/productivity-hack-i-use.md): The one-card Kanban: pick one to three needle-moving tasks the night before, do the first one first, and the rest of the day takes care of itself.

## Life

The long view. Mindset, mortality, family, and what any of it was for.

- [Six kinds of people, and which one you are](https://namase.com/journal/six-kinds-of-people.md): Six kinds of people, sorted by how they chase their targets, and why only a few end up with the joyful life. Which one are you?
- [My biggest motivation is to keep challenging myself](https://namase.com/journal/keep-challenging-myself.md): After the Himalayan trip I admitted I had missed two years of targets by underestimating myself. Being a serial entrepreneur is harder than a bio makes it sound.
- [Always listen to your inner voice](https://namase.com/journal/listen-to-your-inner-voice.md): Three times a quiet voice told me to leave what was safe: quitting TCS, starting a business with a friend, and renting an office for 50. It was right each time.
- [I do not have time is an excuse, not a reason](https://namase.com/journal/no-time-is-an-excuse.md): The excuse I hear most from friends is that there is no time. The transformation people noticed after two years, and the honest accounting of hours behind it.
- [A day will come when each of us will die](https://namase.com/journal/a-day-will-come.md): Death is certain and its date is not. The thought experiment I put to friends a year ago, and the question it leaves: what would you do with 360 days?
- [Is there a main goal in a person life](https://namase.com/journal/main-goal-in-life.md): A boy, a bow, and arrows that always hit the bull's-eye. The short story that convinced me there is no predestined goal, only the one you create.
- [The friend who never looks unhappy](https://namase.com/journal/navanath.md): My childhood friend Navanath has never once looked unhappy. What he told me when I finally asked how, and why friends like him are the reason anything worked.
- [The friend I told everything to](https://namase.com/journal/friend-i-told-everything.md): What happened after I shared every secret with one close friend, and the rule I live by now: a secret you have told is no longer a secret.
- [The white shirt I wore to every viva](https://namase.com/journal/white-shirt-viva.md): The lucky shirt that got me through engineering vivas, the roommate who borrowed it and topped the exam, and what both taught me about luck and numerologists.
- [Why I stopped debating](https://namase.com/journal/why-i-stopped-debating.md): I used to enjoy debating politics, religion and success. Why I stopped, and what people usually want from an argument instead of an answer.
- [The friend who called about starting a business](https://namase.com/journal/friend-who-called.md): A Skype call with a college friend turned into a lecture on entrepreneurship he never asked for. Three rules about when to talk and when not to.
- [Ten lessons people learn too late](https://namase.com/journal/ten-lessons-learned-too-late.md): Ten lessons most people learn too late, from owning your own success to treating today as the special occasion, plus one extra: too late is an excuse.
- [The email you send to your future self](https://namase.com/journal/email-to-your-future-self.md): A friend's idea of emailing your future self, and why I would rather plan like a climber: adjust as the mountain changes, and never set targets in money.
- [How do you stay positive all the time](https://namase.com/journal/how-to-stay-positive.md): Someone asked how anyone stays positive whatever happens. My answer: motivation from within, the right company, and praising what you admire in others.
- [My diet, since people keep asking](https://namase.com/journal/my-diet.md): The exact meals, timings and quantities I eat in a day, as set by my gym trainer, for everyone who keeps asking. Check with yours before copying it.

## Craft

The trade. Websites, search, the tools, and what broke this week.

- [Why I donated to GNOME](https://namase.com/journal/donated-to-gnome.md): Why I sent $100 to GNOME's legal fund against Groupon: a trademark defense that matters for every free-software project, not just one desktop.
- [Google Authorship is not what it was](https://namase.com/journal/google-authorship-changed.md): Since December 2013 a verified authorship no longer guarantees your photo in results. Three classes exist now, and after 15 profiles I still cannot see the logic.

## Money

Earning it, spending it, and what things actually cost.

- [The people who taught me what to do with money](https://namase.com/journal/earning-is-not-enough.md): I kept everything in a savings account until the right people, one at a time, showed me what money can do. This is my thank-you to them.
- [I believe in earning more than you spend](https://namase.com/journal/earn-more-than-you-spend.md): Cutting corners on shoes will not make you rich. The case for putting your energy into earning more, and building income that arrives while you sleep.
- [When you master your spending, you master life](https://namase.com/journal/master-your-spending.md): A four-way split for every rupee you earn, borrowed from the Rigveda, and the budgeting habit that separates a happy life from a frustrated one.
- [What changed when I started affiliate marketing](https://namase.com/journal/affiliate-marketing-changed.md): One year in: how affiliate marketing replaced six hours a day on Facebook and waiting for sponsored posts, and the friend who pushed me into it.

## Time

Hours, habits and attention, and how to get them back.

- [A productivity hack I actually use](https://namase.com/journal/productivity-hack-i-use.md): The one-card Kanban: pick one to three needle-moving tasks the night before, do the first one first, and the rest of the day takes care of itself.
- [The habits behind highly productive people](https://namase.com/journal/habits-of-productive-people.md): The habits behind Jobs, Zuckerberg, Gandhi and Obama, stripped of the myth: priorities, learning over gossip, and the self-talk that keeps you going.
- [On people who arrive late](https://namase.com/journal/people-who-arrive-late.md): Fifteen minutes late is not a small thing. What lateness says about how someone values time, theirs and yours, and the choice each of us makes daily.
- [Read this only if you respect time](https://namase.com/journal/if-you-respect-time.md): We call time our most valuable asset and then hand it to WhatsApp. The habits and app limits I use to close the gap between saying so and doing so.
- [Where I have been, and how I run many projects](https://namase.com/journal/handling-multiple-projects.md): Where I disappeared to, and how I run several projects at once without repeating a friend's lost eighteen months: time blocks, tracking, and saying no.
- [Productivity tips and time management](https://namase.com/journal/productivity-time-management.md): At 25 I built a 24-hour timetable and followed it strictly. What I read, what I changed about sleep and attention, and why it still holds.
- [Productivity tips from personal experience](https://namase.com/journal/productivity-tips-experience.md): Ten things that measurably changed my working day, from waking early to time-limiting WhatsApp, with the tools and the research behind each one.
- [Cutting the distractions](https://namase.com/journal/cutting-distractions.md): The experiment after quitting the news feed: measuring where messaging apps and social media take the day, and taking those hours back.

## Optional

- [About](https://namase.com/about): who writes this
- [Archive](https://namase.com/archive): every entry by year
- [Quotes](https://namase.com/quotes): lines lifted from the entries