Why effort matters—and why it’s never the whole story This series documents the ideas, mental models, and practical lessons that helped me learn skills and build habits over the years. These insights come from my parents, teachers, colleagues, friends, and from books and blogs on self-improvement. The path was anything but linear. It involved trial and error, false starts, and long stretches of inconsistency. I don’t aim for perfection. I
Most of us have owned a version of our unused treadmill. It might be a guitar gathering dust, a DSLR locked away in a cupboard, or a course we started with excitement and quietly abandoned. We didn’t lack motivation—we lacked an understanding of how passion actually works. Most of us don’t fail because we lack passion. We fail because we expect passion to appear before effort, struggle, and competence. In reality, passion is
This series is my attempt to document the ideas, mental models, and practical lessons that worked for me while learning skills and building habits over the years. These lessons came from my parents, teachers, colleagues, friends, and from books and blogs on self-improvement. The path was anything but linear. It involved trial and error, false starts, and long stretches of inconsistency. I don’t aim for perfection. I go off track
“Memories. You are talking about memories …” – from The Blade Runner Growing up in 70s and 80s in Tamil Nadu, main entertainments were movies followed by festivals and books. Vacations during school annual holidays means attending marriage functions in hot summer, scorching heat. Going to movies were always family events. I carry some of the wonderful memories from those decades. Occasions and events got associated with movies we
Why does getting started feel so hard, but continuing later feels almost effortless? Why does discipline feel painful while habits feel natural? Understanding this difference changed how I approach learning, health, and personal growth. This series is my attempt to document the ideas, mental models, and practical lessons that worked for me while learning skills and building habits over the years. These lessons came from my parents, teachers, colleagues, friends,
Official Trailer: All but one child from the same class mysteriously vanish on the same night at exactly the same time. They all run away from their home stretching their hands like an airplane. The community is bewildered and left questioning who or what is behind their disappearance. There are home CCTV footages that shows the children running out of the homes but no clues on where they ran to.
Early in my career, I believed the right book could fix almost anything. Experience taught me otherwise. This series is my attempt to document ideas, mental models, and practical lessons that worked for me while learning skills and building habits over the years. These lessons came from my parents, teachers, colleagues, friends, and from books and blogs on self-improvement. The path was anything but linear. It involved trial and error,
Official Trailer: Kalamkaval is an excellent example of how a generic serial killer story can be made interesting with a tight screenplay, a smart twist, and excellent performances from the lead actors Mammootty and Vinayakan. Kalamkaval is not a who done it thriller, here we know the identity of the killer in the opening sequence itself. What a brilliant opening sequence that is. A murder committed by a calm and
Official Trailer: In Wake up Dead Man, director and writer Rian Johnson sets the who done it crime thriller in a small church community. Detective Benoit Blanc has to investigate a murder that happened within the church on a Good Friday service. Rian Johnson uses the murder investigation premise to explore organized religion, faith, grace, and humanity. He beautifully merges the genre tropes with characters that stand somewhere on the
Official Trailer: Writer Bahul Ramesh asks an interesting question, is it protection or restriction, and then builds a wonderful mystery story around it. To expand the question, Kuriachan asks what do we train the dogs for, protection or restriction of the people? The question applies not just to people but also to the dogs. We get Eko from the same creative team that gave us Kishkindha Kaandam. In Kishkindha Kaandam