Santhosh Guru
practising curiosity — books, cinema, product, and everything in between
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On Nature vs. Nurture
When it comes to parenting an important concept I learnt some years ago is the "nature vs nurture". Nature is the genetical influence given by the parents to the children. Nurture, many people, used t
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Why I dislike "Deep Work" ?
I want to talk about the book written by Cal Newport, Deep Work. It is a big hit and many people I know vouch by this and are planning to adopt this. Well, I was a convert to Deep Work too but realise
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Key Lessons from Rebel Allocator
I want to go in detail in a later post about this nicely written fiction, Rebel Allocator. I am half way through it. This post is about my key lessons regarding business from this fiction.
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Skin in the Game
Skin in the Game is my first proper book of Nassim Taleb. I have seen him being notorious on Twitter for his fights and blocks. I have heard him in a couple of podcasts and have read a short book, Bed
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On Driving
I am not a car enthusiast. Even though I am a gadget fanatic, I have never gotten why people get so excited about nice cars. (Well, Tesla is an exception. It is more a gadget than an automobile. 😜)To
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My experiments with sleep
I am a fitness enthusiast. I have written about my investments in sleep in some early posts. If you are asking, why fitness and sleep are related, I believe you were living in a cave. Welcome to the r
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Money as a Voting mechanism
My thinking toolkit got enriched with a new tool of thought. Thinking money as a way to vote.
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Inboxification
We live in an age of abundance. We are flooded with news from social media, newsletters, RSS readers and instant messaging app. I want to share my technique of managing this. I treat every source of i
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Perils of Retirement
Venkatesh Rao of Ribbonfarm had said in one of the essays that:
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iPad Parenting
My 6-yo son is a digital native. He has an old but working iPad with a proper child-proof case. He uses it mainly for watching YouTube Kids and Netflix Kids. He browses for some kids crafts and ideas
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