Tidying up, just a little bit I’ve always had an interesting relationship with clutter. I dislike it in any form absolutely and utterly, or so I think. I spend time tidying up my work and living spaces, to a point where every single item has it’s own designated place. The idea is that once used, everything will be...

An update: meditation, 21 days in I’ve been meditating for 21 days in a row now. It’s far too early to see any improvements made as a direct result of the practice. But after my initial decision to build this mindfulness habit, a couple of things have changed. So, as promised, here’s an update about what has been...

Ignoring Guy KawasakiSeveral months ago, I happened upon Occam’s Razor, the acclaimed blog of Google’s Digital Marketing Evangelist, Avinash Kaushik. He is a well known practitioner in the Digital Marketing and Analytics space, and his posts are collections of actionable and practical advice for both beginners and...

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. There’s one decisive reality we’ve had to come to terms with during the past five months and this following quote, attributed...

Because one challenge is not enough Two days ago, I wrote about cleaning up my phone in an attempt to avoid Death by Notification Overload. 48 hours in, it’s working out well. I realised that I had the capacity, and quite possibly the need, to take up another challenge of similar intensity, so I decided to take up...

Last week, I asked a question on Instagram. And you had a clear answer for it.If you missed it, here’s what I did. I wrote a story about doing unimportant things for 15 years to get to where I am today, and even though I thought those years were wasted, how they weren’t. (Yes, this one.) Then I ran a poll on...

Today, I took on a quite unexpected challenge, on a whim: a ‘Digital Detox’ of sorts.After coming across Jason Stirman’s Beautility, My Ultimate iPhone Setup on my Twitter feed this evening I felt the sudden urge to go all in. Notification overload has always bugged me, but I never got around to doing anything about...

For 15 long years I dabbled in many things I ended up wanting nothing to do with. Now that I look back, those years were more valuable than I give them credit for.Of course, I’m talking about school. And if you’re Sri Lankan, you’d know exactly what I mean. In Grade 10, as an elective subject, I took French, because...

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. If you are, or have been, a marketer you’ve probably heard these four words a million times: Attract, Convert, Close,...

And I have news for you. I’m going to write to you more often, a newsletter of sorts.I did this with a friend once: every Friday, I’d send him an email that contained 5 things that piqued my curiosity during the week that had passed. This list contained videos I had seen, blog posts I had read, books I had picked up...

Welcome to my Monkey MindMy journaling habit never really took off, but it has produced some indecisive and random strings of thought that found their way to the Cloud. Having chanced upon them this morning I found myself craving to go back to journaling again. Whether I would is a question for tomorrow’s dawn to...

Documenting my startup journey This 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. When we launched Bear Appeal, we were mostly trying to scratch our own itch. We couldn’t find a reliable retailer that sold...