A few days ago, I consciously ended my Duolingo streak of ~480 days. This post talks about why I did the streak in the first place, the effects maintaining a streak like that can have, and some (potentially useful) suggestions to the Duolingo team. Some background before we start. Duolingo…

Paper is everything During school, I learned a valuable lesson from my father that changed the way I looked at work interactions altogether. His advice was simple: If you have something important to discuss with someone, write it down properly, and hand it over to them at the right time during your conversation. …

If you are a front-end developer, you must have created at least one form in your life. And it probably wasn’t a pleasant experience. Forms can be hard to get right, especially when they have multiple sections or questions. Dynamic forms (forms that add or remove fields as the user…

Day 0 I have my usual cup of coffee in the morning before leaving for office. In the evening I am attending a play. I forget to drink the second cup. At 9pm — during the intermission, I am standing outside the theater hall with a heavy head and a foggy mind…

Throughout school in Seychelles, I wore tons of weird shoes. From pointy, black shiny ones to brown, loose flat ones. Everyone else usually just wore sandals. Me? I had certain “standards” to maintain as a kid. So for the first year of school, I wore the spick and span black…

One of the challenges in the journey of productivity is conquering context switching. That is, how quickly can you get back to your core responsibility after being distracted from it? Let’s step back and try to understand the problem in detail in this post. We will look at some potential…

Punekars are fantastic drivers. From dodging potholes quicker than one dodges trains in Subway Surfers to going over speed-breakers so fast that you cannot even feel the bump — we are the embodiment of the saying “Ignorance is bliss”. Every Punekar, irrespective of which bike, scooter, or bicycle they have…

I was a bit of a fraidy-cat when it came to swimming. To be honest, that wouldn’t have mattered much if my family had shifted to a landlocked nation. But instead, here I was on an island on a stormy Wednesday evening in my swimsuit. …

When I was seven, my parents decided to move to Seychelles. Seychelles is close to Mauritius, which most people know as a tourist destination. Mauritius is a lone island in the sea. Seychelles however, is an archipelago — which means the country comprises of a total of 115 islands of…