Siddhartha BalaThat 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…Feb 4, 2020Feb 4, 2020
Siddhartha BalaWhatever happened to prime time?Prime time was a uniquely 20th century artifact, driven by television. With television, time was chunky, analog and sequential. You…Feb 4, 2020Feb 4, 2020
Siddhartha BalaTame 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…Feb 4, 2020Feb 4, 2020
Siddhartha BalaKonMari 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…Feb 4, 2020Feb 4, 2020
Siddhartha BalaMission, 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…Feb 4, 2020Feb 4, 2020
Siddhartha BalaThe 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…Feb 4, 2020Feb 4, 2020
Siddhartha BalaThe Rise of the MachinesOn a long flight to Asia [in the Summer of 2015], I happened to watch this movie:Jan 4, 2020Jan 4, 2020
Siddhartha BalaGetting 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…Jan 4, 2020Jan 4, 2020
Siddhartha BalaThink 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…Jan 4, 2020Jan 4, 2020
Siddhartha BalaThe 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…Jan 4, 2020Jan 4, 2020