Santhosh Guru
practising curiosity — books, cinema, product, and everything in between
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Thoughts about "The Great Indian Kitchen" movie
I love the Netflix series, The Crown. In the recent season, an episode really stuck with me. Margaret Thatcher is known as the iron lady of U.K. She did many things that people didn’t like, but she wa
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Uncanny Valley and Garbage Language
Recently I read the book, Uncanny Valley written by Anna Wiener. I picked it up because of some rave reviews and it was featured in many top-10 non-fiction books of 2020.
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Vulnerability - a super power
As a techie, the word “vulnerability” brings a lot of negative context into it. When I was a developer, the security teams would raise critical issues to address the vulnerability problems. It was a n
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Lessons in Personal Finance: 2020
I learnt a few key lessons in personal finance in 2020. I didn’t actively seek to become better in personal finance. Luck and happenstance pushed me to know more and take some action on this front.
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Religion and Me
I consider myself an atheist. To be precise, I am a non-believer. I love rational explanations. I accept my ignorance and move forward and be curious. But nowadays I think that you can be religious an
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Thoughts on LifeLog vs 750words.com
I want to think aloud on having a public LifeLog and private 750words.com. I see these two platforms serving two different purposes. Morning pages are a nice habit to purge out all the thoughts from o
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Ted Lasso on Apple TV+
I started to watch an Apple TV+ Original series called Ted Lasso and fully completed it in a day. It was a TV series of 10 episodes with 30 mins episode. I really like the TV show for the overall conc
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Scarcity mindset vs. Abundance mindset
This is a framework that I got introduced in the last year after reading the works of Joe Hudson and Brene Brown.
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What have you changed your mind about over the last year?
I have changed my mind about a few things in the last year. I don’t value productivity that optimises the time in calendars and to-do lists. I value productivity that emphasises connecting with onesel
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My fav Books of 2019
**Open Borders by Bryan Caplan**: This was fantastic. A graphic-non-fiction on a potentially complex topic. But the author’s magic is presenting it and arguing the case in an easily digestible manner.
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