Topic

Productivity

A collection of 8 issues

Greenfield vs. Brownfield

Greenfield and Brownfield investments are ways in which a company can expand into other countries. They are 2 different types of foreign direct investment. Greenfield investment is when the company builds necessary resources from scratch in the new country. This could include building new plants, distribution centres etc. Greenfield option

Casey Neistat Work Ethic

The Casey Neistat work ethic is breaking down what ever you want to be better at into a chunk that can be performed every day. And then doing it every day. No excuses. No ifs. No what ifs. Just do it. Every single day. He famously started daily vlogging to

Systematic Thinking in Investing

One of the key ideas for investing well, over a long period of time is to handle as much of thinking using structured methods. Leaving things open and to be decided by chance is an easy way for it to get affected by emotions, biases and the chatter in your

Walt's Three Rooms

Walt Disney used this method to come up with new ideas and subsequently break them down and refine them to end up with something viable. The process is split into 3 parts: The Dreamer: There are no bad ideas here. It can be wild or logical. With as less thought

Unhabit

Social media apps these days have features built into them to keep us mindlessly scrolling through its infinite feed. One easy way to unhabit is to install a “focus” app that limits the time you spend on these apps. But what if we try to introduce a negative

Context Switching

Our brain is designed to focus on one task. However, by multitasking we are training it to be distracted by multiple stimuli. Each time we switch tasks we lose our focus. The brain takes some sometime before it can readjust to the new task. On an average it takes 23

Checklists

One prerequisite to be in a state of flow while working is to have good clarity on the goal and get immediate feedback. Being in such a state feels like you are on auto-pilot, you lose your perception of time and a feeling of calmness fill in you. Depending on

Discipline

Doing something hard deliberately requires discipline. This is especially true when you are starting out to do something. And it feels like shouting out into the void and seeing no progress. One way to think about discipline is the training period for your brain to create a dopamine feedback loop.