Tagged: Takeaways
Note / 📖 From Dongri to Dubai
The black liquid was a message sent to The officials that Kala Babu, was on his way to the police station. A police man, who did not wish to be named, says,'Those days,it was his way of saying: I am coming to meet you. Make necessary arrangements. He had the …
Note / 📖 Pixar storytelling
Pixar films often feature two main antagonists - one benevolent and one malicious - Buzz/Sid, Princess/Hopper. Ratatouille has three main antagonists: one evil (Skinner), one benevolent (Linguini) and a third, Anton Ego. Ego isn't malicious the way Skinner and Muntz are, but I wouldn't call him benevolent either. He is …
Note / 📖 Pixar storytelling
Change always comes with a price.
The best kind of conflict offers a chance for both destruction and construction, which would have a fortifying effect against the antagonistic forces.
Change is the measuring unit of conflict.
Note / 📖 Pixar storytelling
In a way, stories are a series of conflict - questions presented and answered. Some deal with external forces and some with internal forces.
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- Product making and product marketing are completely orthogonal skills
- It takes a village to create a youtube video - everyone chips in, creates stories, adds diverse content
- A script with clear narration and accompanying picture (storyboard) is the edge in video making
- There's no point memorizing …
Note / 📖 Maybe you should talk to someone by Lori Gottlieb
"So what i say is this: you can have compassion without forgiving."
Granted, for some, forgiveness can serve as a powerful release – you forgive the person who wronged you, without condoning his actions, and it allows you to move on, but too often people feel pressure to forgive, …
Note / 💡 Me
Inspired by a leadership style of leaning in when there is an org gap (you dont want to do it and the junior either needs grooming or can't or won't do it), so that you do the IC work while simultaneously ensuring youre closing the gap through external hiring.
Note / 💡 Me
https://blog.mitaleem.com/2026/feb/17/note/how-do-humans-actually-change/
Follow up - Day 6 of no sugar. Don't feel like eating sweet stuff anymore and it simply cannot be because of my body needs changing.
It took just one shift - from "what will it take to eat that barfi" to "what do I gain by not …
Note / 💡 Me
pregnant. present. enveloping. begging to not be relieved.
Note / 📖 Maybe you should talk to someone by Lori Gottlieb
In the 1980s, a psychologist named James Prochaska developed the transtheoretical model of behavior change (TTM) based on research showing that people generally don't "just do it" as Nike (or a new year's resolution), but instead tend to move through a series of sequential stages that look like this:
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Note / 📖 Maybe you should talk to someone (Lori Gottlieb)
Speed is about time, but it is also closely related to endurance and effort. The faster the speed, the thinking goes, the less endurance or effort required. Patience on the other hand, requires endurance and effort. It's defined as "the bearing of provocation, annoyance, misfortune or pain without complaint, loss …
Note / 📖 Visual Thinking (Willemien Brand)
The best way to beat fear of failure is by just doing it. Make a start by putting lines of paper like a child. Draw headfooters or tadpole people. They may not be realistic, but the powerful and convincing lines give them credibility.