Documenting my startup journeyThis is one in a series of posts where I document my startup journey. If you just landed here, go to this link and you’ll find all the other posts in the series. Big Discounts. Flash Sales. Buy-One-Get-One-Free’s. That’s a list of things we dislike at Bear Appeal. The reason is simple:...

On meditation and purposeWhen I started meditating back in October last year, I knew why I wanted to do it. I had a goal. A purpose. A North Star to keep me on track, and to convince myself that taking 10–20 minutes a day for meditation was not going to be a waste of time. This is what I wrote about that goal: My...

Ignorance truly is bliss. Just not in the way you think.Ignorance ˈɪɡn(ə)r(ə)ns/ noun lack of knowledge or information. 20 Billion kilometres away from the sun, a little beyond the vicinity of our estranged cousin Pluto, a lone spacecraft flies in to the depths of the universe. Closely followed by its twin, an...

No one is self-made. To call one that is a blatant dismissal of the work of many around them.The word ‘self-made’ is a misnomer. I don’t think self-made billionaires (or any self-made success stories for that matter) exist. I don’t think anyone ever makes it on their own. It can’t be possible. While you go through...

An easy, almost effortless way to give backI’m a huge fan of crowdsourcing. I try to be involved in crowdsourcing projects whenever time permits. I contribute to Wikipedia, Google Translate and Facebook Translate regularly, but the platform I’m most active on is Google Maps. Google Maps has this amazing program...

Documenting my startup journeyThis is one in a series of posts where I document my startup journey. If you just landed here, go to this link and you’ll find all the other posts in the series. We recently applied to trademark Bear Appeal, and I thought I should share some specifics for the benefit of anyone who’s...

Documenting my startup journeyThis is one in a series of posts where I document my startup journey. If you just landed here, go to this link and you’ll find all the other posts in the series. Just before the Avurudu holidays here in Sri Lanka, Pavithra and I spent two days delivering Bear Appeal orders by hand...

Documenting my startup journeyThis is one in a series of posts where I document my startup journey. If you just landed here, go to this link and you’ll find all the other posts in the series. Today we realized that we’ve been offering a rather generous, and somewhat impractical, delivery guarantee at Bear Appeal....

On journaling, and setting a low bar I’m a slow thinker. I don’t grab fast the concepts and ideas I’m exposed to, unless I take some time to sit down and think about them carefully. For the same reason, I’ve never been good at conversation. If you were to debate me verbally, I’d lose spectacularly. Writing has...

January 2018 update I’ve ventured further into podcast-land since my last post. (Heck, I’ve even launched my own.) Here’s a quick update on six amazing podcasts I added to my list recently. Some of these are new, some have been around for a while. In no particular order, here they are: Clear + Vivid with Alan Alda...

Documenting my startup journeyThis is one in a series of posts where I document my startup journey. If you just landed here, go to this link and you’ll find all the other posts in the series. As we step in to the new year, I wanted to write something reflecting on the seven months that went by. It seemed only right....

I’ve been away for a while. The last post I wrote on this blog was on the 30th November, that is, 26 days ago.I’ve been busy with work for the most part, but I took a little break in Vietnam, too. Everything somehow added up to me not writing even when I wanted to. Writing was not the only thing I didn’t do. I...