I have been journaling on and off for the past three years. I’ve discovered a direct correlation between journaling and my elevated mood. The reason for this uplifted mood is that journaling makes me accountable. Every day, I engage in a 20-minute conversation with myself through text, also known as…

I am music aficionado. I listen to music for more than 1 hour everyday. It helps me focus on work, workouts or even when I wake up. I use Spotify for accessing music and podcasts.Recently, Spotify’s overall experience began to degrade and hence this blog. Pain Points As a user…

TLDR; People don’t have the same situation, strength, weakness, financial situation, family, or friend circle as you. If you want to compare, compare yourself to the past you from last week, month or year. (Learned it from Jordan Peterson) That is a good metric to understand your growth, what you…

We as product builders tend to look at all the good case scenarios of success and just a few failure scenarios. But when engineering meets design, there is a lot of empty space where cases are not covered. Once the user hits an incomprehensive error message irrespective if its their…

When the content copy isn’t doing it’s job at explaining why a customer is getting charged or affected, it breaks customers trust. When things don’t add up and rather than reaching out to the customer service, an easier option is to quit the app(retention drops), change the product(competitor wins) or…

Most people I have met workout to build their bodies. A common theme across bodybuilding is when we see someone lifting a plate heavier than us, we also go heavy. Here comes ego lifting, lifting an uncomfortable amount of weight to impress the people you don’t know. One of the…

What is Zillow? Their website defines it as “The leading real estate marketplace. Search millions of for-sale and rental listings, compare Zestimate® home values and connect with local professionals.” I was using their iOS mobile app and found some difficulties in the overall UI/UX and thought about sharing my views. …

I have a habit of writing my life learnings onto a living document which I call Constitution. One of the sections in it is called “learning from 2023”. In that I was reemphasizing something and thought it might be helpful to others too. So, here it is: This year I’ve…

Two years ago, I wrote about the ease of moving from one app to another if I’m not satisfied with the service provided. The market is saturated with similar apps that offer the same features and design elements, such as grocery apps (BlinkIt, Zepto, and Swiggy’s Instamart), travel apps (Uber…