This week we will talk about an interesting exercise that every student of Stanford University’s design program has to go through.

The year has ended and now is the season of resolutions, goals, planning, and fresh starts.

Every year I make plans or resolutions at the start of the year and never follow through with them. This year I am determined to change that. So I went on a great google search on tips and tricks on new year resolution, life goals, and planning in general and found this really great exercise/plan named Odessey Plan.

You might have been asked…

This week we will talk about a website to discover what people are asking about, a blog on muscle building, and an online service to get high-quality icons & generate color schemes.

1. Answer The Public

Answer the public is a great tool for anyone doing market or customer research.

It taps into google searches (approx 3 billion every day)and cranks out useful questions people are asking around a keyword.

It generates the output in a mind map type visual, which is very easy to digest. It’s a goldmine of customer insights that you can use to create your next product or service.

This week I am continuing with my YouTube recommendation series and will talk about some must-watch YouTube videos on the topic of International Affairs.

All my recommendations are from VOX and Johnny Harris. VOX is a media outlet that apart from hard-hitting journalism, makes really great content on YouTube. You might have seen their Explained series on Netflix. Johnny Harris is an independent content creator who has made some amazing videos for VOX in the past, some of which I am going to recommend here.

1. VOX — The rise of ISIS

Remember the time when there was a major crisis in Syria and Iraq due to…

This week we are changing up a little bit. Instead of sharing interesting websites, products, or tools, I am going to talk about some really interesting YouTube channels focusing on historical events and topics.

1. Kings and Generals

I consider myself a bit of a history nerd. If I had to pick a new career, I would love to be a historian. I guess other than me, only YouTube knows this about me, and based on my watching habits, it recommended a video on Mongols, which had a really good-looking thumbnail. …

TRAVEL. MEXICO.

This week I want to share a trip that I took with my wife back in 2018, a Good Friday long weekend to Mexico City.

We are usually the type of people who like to plan their trips well in advance; however, this was different. We had a long weekend coming, and we wanted to travel somewhere away from Canada’s cold spring.

Our criteria were

1. It should be someplace warm
2. 5–6 hours flying time, as we only had three days
3. On arrival Visa for a Canadian Permanent Resident

Based on the above, our options were limited. …

Remember the thing that we used to do until March last year where we plan, apply for visas, book flights-hotels, pack our luggage, hop on the plane, rent a vehicle, visit places, eat exotic food, and experience a new culture?

We used to call it “travel”.

With vaccines rolling, people will start traveling soon. In preparation for that, I wanted to share this itinerary to Iceland which I prepared for my wife & her friend when they traveled to Iceland in 2019.

It's going to be 9 days and 8 nights itinerary where you will circle around entire Iceland through…

Is procrastination holding you back? Then this is the app that you need to get things done.

I have a soft corner for productivity & note-taking apps. I play around with a lot of apps focused on it.

To manage my to-do items, I have used a bunch of different techniques, like analog methods (writing it on a piece of paper), and digital methods (using dedicated apps on my phone and laptop).

I like the feel of writing things down and then physically marking an item done on a notepad. However, keeping and maintaining sticky notes & notepads sometimes become…

This week, we will talk about a chrome extension and a website.

1. Audioblogs

In my efforts to find ways to read and consume more information, I found Audioblogs. It’s a Chrome extension that converts any article or story into audio that you can listen to at varying speeds.

I found audiobooks and audio blogs to be really powerful productivity tools where you can perform multiple tasks at the same time. I can listen to an article while I am washing dishes or working out.