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2026 — 4 posts
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2022 — 2 posts
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2021 — 8 posts
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2020 — 24 posts
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2019 — 56 posts
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May
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Oct
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2018 — 81 posts
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2017 — 19 posts
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2016 — 10 posts
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2015 — 19 posts
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2014 — 4 posts
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2012 — 28 posts
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2011 — 6 posts
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2010 — 15 posts
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2009 — 36 posts
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2008 — 28 posts
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All posts by year
2026 (4)
- Seven Ways to Avoid Losing Your Job to AI
- The Relationship That Truly Matters
- You are neither a doer nor an experiencer of results
- The Users Stopped Being Human
2022 (2)
2021 (8)
- Best of Life Tips from Reddit
- 12 Lessons Learned in the Last 12 Months
- Life Advice From Charlie Munger
- Always Be Quitting
- A list of operational patterns
- Rules of NO
- Peter Kaufman - The Multidisciplinary Approach to Thinking
- Becoming a successful Technical Leader
2020 (24)
- Resources Compilation- The 2020 Edition
- The Tech Stack of a One-Man SaaS
- Time Billionaire
- Most Overlooked Truths of Money and Life
- How to get better at Sales?
- Read.Think.Reflect.Improve.001
- Circle of Competence
- Career Advice
- Mental models
- Writing is a transaction
- The Cindrella Principle
- Kevin Kelly - 68 bits of unsolicited advice
- Effortless Mastery
- Charles Darwin’s 8 Steps to Steady-State Learning
- Preserving Optionality
- Wealth Is What You Don’t Spend
- Wear sunscreen
- Don't Just Roll the Dice - A usefully short guide to #softwarepricing
- How To Be Successful At Your career, Twitter Edition by Sama (2020)
- Who was it that bound you?
- Software Products Wishful List - 2020 Version
- The Path to Knowledge
- Strominger at 94
- The Lesson to Unlearn
2019 (56)
- Being Successful without working long hours - A Perspective
- Magic Startup Moments
- Notes on API Practices
- Some AWS EC2 Tips
- Reading
- Know before you enter the den
- We are What we Choose
- Be Kind
- Napkin Numbers
- Stab a Book, the Book Won't Die
- How to bet?
- Scaling Fallacy
- Reasonable Ignorance
- The Mediocrity Principle
- Programming principles for early stage startups
- Fluent in flannel: a guide to mastering the business bullshit method
- No Sunk Costs
- Why re-read books?
- How to win in a packed category
- Tool - RSSHub
- Links - Sep 28, 2019
- Leggo That Ego - Bob Iger(Disney)
- Lessons from WeWork IPO debacle
- Good Work
- The Four Agreements
- Public Speaking - Tips
- Software Architecture Is Overrated
- Tool: AP DataKit
- Fear
- There is no tomorrow
- Legacy and Obsolescence
- Outlast the bastards
- The Four Agreements
- Asking the Right Question
- Things I Learnt The Hard Way (in 30 Years of Software Development)
- Engineering Principles
- Apple Tim Cook's 2019 Commencement address at Stanford
- Digital Minimalism
- How to get Rich (Naval Ravikant's Version)
- Notes on Software Engineering
- Path to Truth
- Patsy in the Game
- It's Never Too Late to Start a Brilliant Career
- A map of the unknown world
- Managing Risks
- Charlie Munger - May 2019
- CEO Traits
- Marc Andreessen's Blog Archive as eBook
- Either/Or
- It’s normal to take a while
- The Time Keeper
- Education is something that you claim
- awesome-selfhosted: A list of selfhosted apps
- You Are Alone
- A list of mental model resources
- The Island of Knowledge
2018 (81)
- The Three Important Words - I Don't Know
- Lessons Learned From Writing Over 300,000 Lines of Infrastructure Code
- Enough
- Seth Klarman's Career Advice
- Your Intuition is Wrong
- Sales Checklist for Side Projects
- Marketing Checklist for Side Projects
- How to fail as a new engineering manager
- 2nd Anniversary Lessons from Investor Field Guide Podcasts
- Low floor, wide walls, high ceiling
- That Cocky Voice in Your Head is Wrong
- How to Think?
- Be Yourself
- Heuristics to Decision Making
- The Headwinds/Tailwinds Asymmetry
- Change
- Rule of 50 for dropping a bad book
- Heuristics for deciding on meetings
- Trading Time
- No Sunk Costs
- Collection of Investing Resources (Valuewalk)
- Work and Play
- Sending a Private Message in Twitter
- Notes from Naval - Part 3
- Notes from Naval - Part 2
- Notes from Naval - Part 1
- Notes - June 22, 2018
- Notes: Money from Thin Air
- On Wealth
- Using Custom Domains with AWS API Gateway
- Notes - June 11, 2018
- Notes from The Psychology of Money
- The Most Important Question we Never Ask
- How to Get Rich (without getting lucky)
- Whitney Tilson - How my success led to my fall
- Notes - May 25, 2018
- Amateur
- Groking VI(M)
- The Anti Portfolio
- Graduation Speech Links from Evernote
- Notes from Jim O'Shaughnessy Tweetstorm
- Speed of Information
- Notes - May 15, 2018
- Notes - May 14, 2018
- A list of terminal focused tools
- Notes - May 07, 2018
- Notes - May 3, 2018
- Money Advice from Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Notes - 18th April 2018
- First employee of Startup? You are probably getting Screwed
- Notes - 16th April 2018
- Notes - 14th April 2018
- Notes - April 10, 2018
- Peter Kaufman on The Multidisciplinary Approach to Thinking
- Notes - April 9, 2018
- Notes - April 08, 2018
- Notes - April 6, 2018
- Notes - April 5, 2018
- Life is Short
- The 40-70 Rule
- My HN Submission - A History of Transaction Histories
- Notes - 1st April 2018
- Notes - 31st March 2018
- Pmarca Guide to Personal Productivity
- This Much I know - Daniel Kahneman
- Notes - 28th March 2018
- Resistance Is Futile. To Change Habits, Try Replacement Instead.
- Notes - 27th March 2018
- Notes - 26th March 2018
- Summary - The Distracted Mind: Ancient Brains in a High-Tech World
- Notes - 25th March 2018
- The Starting Point
- Notes - 24th March 2018
- Difference between the Janitor and the Vice President
- Skin In the Game
- Always and Never
- Writing
- Personal Finance for Engineers - Adam Nash's presentation
- Principles of Adult Behavior
- The Thrill of Uncertainity
- Techniques - Mental Models
2017 (19)
- Decision Journal
- You're Too Busy
- Human Misjudgement Revisited
- What works in e-commerce A/B experiments
- The Engineer/Manager Pendulum
- A list of opensource backup tools`
- Knowledge grows by subtraction
- Short Investing Rules from Collaborative Fund
- Jeff Bezos: Disagree and Commit
- Some things about Email
- Power to ignore
- Busy, but not productive
- Three buckets of Knowledge
- Google Drive Clients
- Phones and Drones
- httpie
- Elastic Search Cheat Sheet
- Shortness of Life
- Creating yarapavan.in
2016 (10)
- Life Lessons from a Man who has seen 12000 Deaths
- Why Read Philosophy?
- Rain
- Li Lu: Reflections On Reaching Fifty
- Do this. Directives - Part 1 by Derek Sivers
- Independence of Solitude
- Or win this world at cards and let it slip my hands
- You Start Dying Slowly
- Meaning of Life
- Transience
2015 (19)
- A little bit of slope makes up for a lot of y-intercept
- Why Test?
- Tao
- Will I become a billionaire if I am determined to be one and put in all the necessary work required?
- Wisdom
- Searching
- Be More Successful!
- The Struggle
- Visualizing Sun Tzu’s The Art of War
- Soul Mates
- Promise Yourself
- Perfect Match?
- Stand on my shoulders, and Reach
- Moment's Indulgence
- Prepare for None of It to Work
- Knowing what you don’t know is more useful than being brilliant.
- What is up to us, what is not up to us.
- Is It Up To You?
- Alter Your Perspective
2014 (4)
- On the Shortness of Life!
- Still Writing!
- How To Be Creative!
- Find What You Love and Let it Kill You?
2012 (28)
- There is no weakness without its admirer
- Walt Whitman
- The Life That I Have
- Dream!
- The Invitation
- Neil Gaiman: Keynote Address at UARTS
- Be Like Water
- Regrets of the Dying
- The Top of My Todo List
- Don’t work. Avoid telling the truth. Be hated. Love someone.
- My Life Without Me!
- The Fountainhead
- So What?
- Movie Dialogue for the Week
- Writing and Speaking
- Good and Evil
- Please Be Good to Each Other, and Your Self
- Loneliness
- Thought for the Day
- Quote of the Day
- Quote for the Day
- Yes
- (Yandamoori) Telugu Quotes!
- Some Dorothy Parker Verse!
- Good Will Hunting!
- Poetry
- O Me! O Life!
- Beautiful!
2011 (6)
2010 (15)
- Today
- Eppudu Oppukovaddhura Otami: Telugu Song!!
- Lust vs. Love [Sri Krishna's Advice to Uddhava]
- Kavitha O Kavitha...
- Jeff Bezos: "We are What We Choose"
- Jeff Bezos Model: Regret Minimization Framework
- Some Favorite Quotes..
- Satoshi Kon's last words
- Unsure!!
- Atlas Shrugged: This is John Galt Speaking
- Instantes (Instants)
- Invictus
- INFORMATION METABOLISM
- Haruki Murakami: On seeing the 100% perfect girl one beautiful April morning
- Solitude
2009 (36)
- Telugu Quotes - 2
- Telugu Quotes - 1
- APJ Kalam: Wings of Fire Dedication
- A New Year Toast
- Romain Rolland: Today
- Pain
- Lost Love
- The 48 Laws of Power
- Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. (On Joy and Sorrow)
- Yesterday I Lived Bewildered
- Simplicity
- Computer
- Communicating
- Goal of An Essay
- Dirac Anecdotes
- Six Rules of Writing
- Orhan Pamuk On Writing
- Excerpts: Fahrenheit 451
- On Writing
- To Strive, To Seek....
- Be so good they can't ignore you
- Loving in truth, and fain in verse
- Good and Bad Research
- Bittersweet Symphony the verve
- Ignore Everybody
- Choruses from The Rock
- When I heard the learn'd astronomer
- Why Quit?
- Some Quotes Again..
- Love-Hate Relationship
- " Nothing "
- (Draft)Technology and Courage
- A quote
- A verse from Gitanjali
- A dream speech
- Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
2008 (28)
- Success
- Temperament
- Loss And Gain
- Light up the Fire
- Look To this Day
- I am Justice: Clear, Impartial
- I Am and I Am Not
- When the Rose is gone
- Self-Knowledge
- ఐ
- ఆః!
- దేశ చరిత్రలు
- ప్రతిజ్ఞ
- రుక్కులు
- జయభేరి
- To be a hedgehog or a fox - That’s the question?
- [Quotable] Fooled By Randomness
- Little Flute
- Finite and Infinite Games
- Poetry and Writing
- Hope
- Man's Search for Meaning
- In full flow
- A Stroke Of Insight
- The Empty Space
- Some verses...
- My Current Reading List
- Back to work