The biggest ‘quality of life’ improvement when it comes to living in the Netherlands than in India is not the thousands of kilometres of cycle tracks, low noise levels or the parks in every corner, but it is the access to potable water. Open a tap, any tap, in your…
Scientists estimate that there are 8.7 million species ( ~15% margin of error) on this planet. We have identified 1.3 million species so far. This includes everything from mammals and reptiles to plants and algae. However, from a human perspective, our immediate surroundings don’t seem that diverse. Especially if you…
There are 4,050,756 words in the constitutions of 183 countries. Aren’t there more than 183 countries in the world? I’ll explain down the line, read on. So, I was thinking recently about ‘Governments’ as an entity and as a construct. What gives them the ‘power’? What legally establishes them? Without…
At the time of writing this line, Google fonts had 37,926,883,824,759 views. That is almost 38 trillion, with a T. Context: If you haven’t tried building websites or apps, you might have not heard of Google Fonts. Your operating system, say Windows 10, comes preloaded with a few fonts. If…
A few days back, I read a short story called “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas“. I’ve been thinking about it for the past few days and couldn’t take my mind off it. I thought writing about it will give shape to my thoughts and get it out of…
On 5th January, Ryan Hoover asked a simple question via twitter. What’s your favourite productivity hack? 496+ comments poured in. @ajlkn suggested that someone should turn these replies into a coffee table book. There’s some real gold here. I set to do that, and what you find inside below just…
After writing the title for this blog post, I feel like I am writing Aesop’s fable, however, this is a fable from the streets. I am someone, who is guilty of making numerous puns out of the term, “zebra crossing”. When I stumbled upon something called a Pelican crossing, I…
Last week on Instagram, I had shared about my addiction problem. How I kept amassing books that I couldn’t find the time to read. Many people shared the same sentiment. The Japanese even have a name for it. Tsundoku (Japanese: 積ん読) is acquiring reading materials but letting them pile up…
I confess. I used to be one of those guys who reads self-help articles online, while procrastinating, and calls it off as productive procrastination. I do that now as well, but not as much as I used to before. If you’ve been through that rabbit hole, you’d by now heard…