Siddhartha Bala·Feb 4, 2020That gooseberry kidAt a grocery store in a nearby town, a bright-eyed young man named Rafael works in the produce department. Each morning as he stocks the…
Siddhartha Bala·Feb 4, 2020Whatever happened to prime time?Prime time was a uniquely 20th century artifact, driven by television. With television, time was chunky, analog and sequential. You…
Siddhartha Bala·Feb 4, 2020Tame the lizard!If you commit to using the concepts of The Core to live your life more fully, you’ll have to do daily battle with the lizard. The lizard…
Siddhartha Bala·Feb 4, 2020KonMari is GTD for your stuff!If you’re ready for a year-end purge to make space for more time to think and to do what’s important, start by using the KonMari method to…
Siddhartha Bala·Feb 4, 2020Mission, not Passion, Take 2.At a panel discussion recently, I listened to some respected professionals talking about their careers. Two of them repeated the cliché…
Siddhartha Bala·Feb 4, 2020The discomfort of being the only oneThere is a TED talk by Steven Strogatz called “ The Science of Sync,” in which he shares a video that shows the flocking and shoaling…
Siddhartha Bala·Jan 4, 2020The Rise of the MachinesOn a long flight to Asia [in the Summer of 2015], I happened to watch this movie:
Siddhartha Bala·Jan 4, 2020Getting things doneI recently wrote about Hack #1, which involved assigning a dollar value to your time. Hack #2 is about getting things done so you can make…
Siddhartha Bala·Jan 4, 2020Think digital!Take a look at the picture below. It looks perfectly innocuous and in fact is a very attractive version of a living room bookshelf. Look…
Siddhartha Bala·Jan 4, 2020The hedgehog or the fox? Be both!In Good to Great, Jim Collins borrowed the idea of the hedgehog and the fox from an essay by Isaiah Berlin to make a distinction between…
