Yash Chheda

The Lies of Manufactured Love

Don Draper: “Oh, you mean love. You mean the big lightning bolt to the heart where you can’t eat and you can’t work and you just run off and get married and make babies. The reason you haven’t felt it is because it doesn’t exist. What you call love was invented by guys like…

My notes from FutureLearn’s Introduction to UX and Accessible Design Course

FutureLearn’s Introduction to UX and Accessible Design Course notes User experience design UX is an extremely broad subject that incorporates many different aspects of a user’s interaction. The Nielson/Norman Group gives the following definition of UX: User experience encompasses all aspects of the end-user’s interaction with the company, its services and its products. UX…

How to Learn New Subjects & Skills Blindingly Fast

Rapidly Learn New Subjects & Skills & harness the experience of Truly Accelerated Learning Tools, Concepts & Frameworks Referenced These are what Tim Ferriss calls Meta-skills. These are conceptual and cognitive frameworks which improve the rate & quality of your skill acquisition, and the quality of your information processing. Pareto Principle or 80/20 Rule Mindmapping…

Hacking Malayalam

My Insights & Tips picked up while Hacking Malayalam Language Learning Notes before you start If you’re not used to the sounds & flow of South Indian languages (if you’re primarily a hindi or english speaker), you’ll not be able to pick up sentences just by learning vocabulary. I speak English, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati,…

Jordan Peterson Predictors of Performance

Jordan Peterson Predictors of Performance The Personality & miscellaneous traits which are correlated to high individual performance & successful outcomes in career & life. IQ IQ stands in a league of it’s own. There is no other trait apart from conscientiousness which affects fundamental basis for success & high performance. Note that high…

How To get to Trippr Alleppey

Getting to Trippr Alleppey Trippr Alleppey gives you the opportunity to wake up to the sights & sounds of lush green foliage, birds & squirrels, and a 30 second walk brings you right to the beautiful Alappuzha beach. Even in such close proximity to the beach, the hostel is an oasis of calm &…

Flügler Hostels, BIR

Bir-Billing If we were to describe Bir in one sentence, it would be this: Perfect weather, serene locations, adventure activities, mesmerising day hikes, beautiful drives, mountain biking trails, an abundance of spirituality and of course, Asia’s highest paragliding site. Bir-Billing Paragliding World’s second best paragliding location and site of the 2015 Paragliding World Championships. Cycling…