Notes, essays and working thoughts.https://namase.com/en-ushttps://namase.com/journal/productivity-hack-i-use/https://namase.com/journal/productivity-hack-i-use/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.Mon, 02 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://namase.com/journal/six-kinds-of-people/https://namase.com/journal/six-kinds-of-people/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?Fri, 23 Aug 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://namase.com/journal/keep-challenging-myself/https://namase.com/journal/keep-challenging-myself/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.Sat, 16 Dec 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://namase.com/journal/listen-to-your-inner-voice/https://namase.com/journal/listen-to-your-inner-voice/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.Wed, 29 Nov 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://namase.com/journal/no-time-is-an-excuse/https://namase.com/journal/no-time-is-an-excuse/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.Tue, 05 Sep 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://namase.com/journal/a-day-will-come/https://namase.com/journal/a-day-will-come/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?Thu, 20 Jul 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://namase.com/journal/earning-is-not-enough/https://namase.com/journal/earning-is-not-enough/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.Tue, 13 Jun 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://namase.com/journal/habits-of-productive-people/https://namase.com/journal/habits-of-productive-people/The habits behind Jobs, Zuckerberg, Gandhi and Obama, stripped of the myth: priorities, learning over gossip, and the self-talk that keeps you going.Mon, 28 Nov 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://namase.com/journal/main-goal-in-life/https://namase.com/journal/main-goal-in-life/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.Sun, 18 Sep 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://namase.com/journal/navanath/https://namase.com/journal/navanath/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.Wed, 03 Aug 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://namase.com/journal/people-who-arrive-late/https://namase.com/journal/people-who-arrive-late/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.Tue, 28 Jun 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://namase.com/journal/if-you-respect-time/https://namase.com/journal/if-you-respect-time/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.Mon, 16 May 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://namase.com/journal/handling-multiple-projects/https://namase.com/journal/handling-multiple-projects/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.Sat, 07 May 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://namase.com/journal/friend-i-told-everything/https://namase.com/journal/friend-i-told-everything/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.Wed, 16 Dec 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://namase.com/journal/white-shirt-viva/https://namase.com/journal/white-shirt-viva/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.Tue, 24 Nov 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://namase.com/journal/productivity-time-management/https://namase.com/journal/productivity-time-management/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.Mon, 26 Oct 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://namase.com/journal/why-i-stopped-debating/https://namase.com/journal/why-i-stopped-debating/I used to enjoy debating politics, religion and success. Why I stopped, and what people usually want from an argument instead of an answer.Mon, 19 Oct 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://namase.com/journal/friend-who-called/https://namase.com/journal/friend-who-called/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.Tue, 13 Oct 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://namase.com/journal/ten-lessons-learned-too-late/https://namase.com/journal/ten-lessons-learned-too-late/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.Mon, 12 Oct 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://namase.com/journal/productivity-tips-experience/https://namase.com/journal/productivity-tips-experience/Ten things that measurably changed my working day, from waking early to time-limiting WhatsApp, with the tools and the research behind each one.Wed, 26 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://namase.com/journal/email-to-your-future-self/https://namase.com/journal/email-to-your-future-self/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.Mon, 03 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://namase.com/journal/how-to-stay-positive/https://namase.com/journal/how-to-stay-positive/Someone asked how anyone stays positive whatever happens. My answer: motivation from within, the right company, and praising what you admire in others.Mon, 06 Apr 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://namase.com/journal/cutting-distractions/https://namase.com/journal/cutting-distractions/The experiment after quitting the news feed: measuring where messaging apps and social media take the day, and taking those hours back.Wed, 11 Mar 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://namase.com/journal/earn-more-than-you-spend/https://namase.com/journal/earn-more-than-you-spend/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.Mon, 23 Feb 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://namase.com/journal/master-your-spending/https://namase.com/journal/master-your-spending/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.Wed, 11 Feb 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://namase.com/journal/my-diet/https://namase.com/journal/my-diet/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.Fri, 26 Dec 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://namase.com/journal/donated-to-gnome/https://namase.com/journal/donated-to-gnome/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.Tue, 11 Nov 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://namase.com/journal/google-authorship-changed/https://namase.com/journal/google-authorship-changed/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.Fri, 06 Jun 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://namase.com/journal/affiliate-marketing-changed/https://namase.com/journal/affiliate-marketing-changed/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.Tue, 06 May 2014 00:00:00 GMT