Karthi Subbaraman

Payoff

This question keeps popping up every now and then (in my mind at-least). What is a metric that shows life is ok or better or great or just fantastic? In other words, what does my payoff look like? Here is my meditation on that topic. You can take your current

36500 days

Economics says all resources are limited. This scarcity/limitedness creates value. When something is valuable we start using them very carefully. But are all resources equal? Money for example: you can make, you can save, you can hoard, you can multiply, you can share, you can invest, you can loan

12 Rules for Life

By Jordan Peterson. Confession: I don't write book notes for every book I read. I do this only for books that bring in tectonic shifts in my perception. Spending energy in writing a book notes is two fold. 1. The book gets automatically filed under timeless books category

Ideas that shaped me

Here are 10 big ideas that shaped me to a better version. 1/ The magic of mindset + skillset + toolset. Starting from cooking, cleaning to cockpit design the magic applies. Just "this" one question (do I have the necessary mindset, skillset and toolset to do this task now?) before

Rocking Chair Syndrome

A rocking chair gives you a false sense of movement but never goes anywhere. It is like being busy and in action all the time. To be productive you need to get off the rocking chair and actually move to make progress.

NOT-TO-DO list

It is new year and a new possibility so you might be hearing advices on productivity, time management, to-dos, resolutions, goals and more. I want to share with you a controversial advice that works wonders. We keep hearing about the to-do lists. I am here to tell you about the

How to write anything

A step-by-step guide to write. It is a mini workshop as a blog. Just do it as you read it. Don't overthink it.One of my friend asked me this question and I am sharing the response to all of you. Step 1 Answer this question: What do

1BS

oh oh! It is not what you think 🙈 1BS is expanded as ONE BILLION SECONDS. A friend of mine (Christo) introduced me this term on a totally different context in 2020 and from that day the idea of one billion seconds is ringing in my head. I told him I

Neuroreading

Learning how to read right can help you enhance your reading ROI by 10x. Here is a method that has worked for me after several trails and tribulations for reading non-fiction books. I call this method as Reflective Reading. The premise is we learn when we reflect on our experiences

In-Zone Measurement

Yesterday, I was watching Soul [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOsLIiBStEs] (the new Pixar movie) with my little one. Somewhere the movie touched a chord inside me deeply. It was making me wonder about the spark, purpose, in-zone and finding self. This existential crisis is true for a creative.