Weekly Readings: Week 8

A compilation of few interesting, multi-disciplinary links from the digital space

Feb 3

“People often overestimate what they can accomplish in one year. But they greatly underestimate what they could accomplish in five years.”
— Peter Drucker

This week is entirely hectic for me. So much occupied with work that I didn't pick any book to read. I have tried to implement Parkinson's law in my work routine. Parkinson law states work expands to fill the time available for its completion. Set my target for one day for an estimate of 3 days, and it worked. I have categorized my work into three categories:

Deep work: It needs my maximum attention. I try to give 1-2 hours of my undisruptive time for this. Tasks like: Analysing bugs, understanding system design and code flow.
Shallow work: It needs my minimum attention. Allocated for small tasks like sending mail, writing to-dos, filling trackers, and allocating tasks.
Work: General day work with a few set of tasks under my plate.

Here’s my calender looks like for first half of the day (Office work is marked in Blue)

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Coolest Thing I learned this week:

Cold Emails: I wasn’t aware about this term until recently. Cold Emails are certain emails which is been sent to people who’s not in your prior contact.

Coolest Thing I watched this week:

This video of Matt D’Avella is absolute wholesome as life lessons.

Section 1 - Investing & Technology

[This section covers the investing-related articles - Be it equity, businesses, start-ups, or blockchain & It also covers the technology-in-general, ongoing trends in technology and programming languages]

Breaking Down Network Effects By Tanay Jaipuria:

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Breaking Down Network Effects

Hi friends! I was reading Andrew Chen’s Cold Start Problem recently, and enjoyed his framing on breaking down network effects based on the part of the product / business it helps in. This week, I’ll be going deeper into it and sharing some of my own thoughts on it…

3 days ago · 2 likes · Tanay Jaipuria

Section 2 - Art & Society

[This section covers everything from art, literature, Poetry, Cinema, or anything closely related to the abstract or literary world & covers the political and social commentaries, opinions, or editorial]

A different way to think about Indian media By Samarth Bansal:

Is the Indian media broken beyond repair? Or is it thriving as feisty regional and independent outlets report the truth to power? The answer lies not in the specifics but in the larger systems.

As an open-source Covid tracker shuts down, others in India are ‘following in its footsteps’ By Ananya Bhattacharya: Story of how the covid tracker portal - Covid19india.org, which is the labor of over 300 volunteers, has shut down.

Section 3 - Personal

[This section covers the things I discovered that can be applied to my personal life and personal growth.]

Trees don’t rush to heal from trauma and neither should we By Beronda Montgomery / Psyche:

Effectively healing a wound maintains the overall health of the tree, and leads to the growth of new branches and leaves that will support new fruits or seeds. What I learn from trees each year is that there is a delicate balancing act in the struggle to recover from trauma.

Now listening:

Akale

Sid Sriram, Sanjeev T

Infographics of the week:

That’s it from my side. I hope you’ll like the series and the recommendations.

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Weekly Readings: Week 8

Weekly Readings: Week 8