From a trivial personal story of mine, I did a little bit reflection and connected the following random dots:

• Value based pricing
• The curse of knowledge
• Know your worth

The Story

Recently, I did a little DYI upgrade to my road bike rear cassette from 105 component to Ultegra component ...

Have you ever wondered why people from the same geographic region all have the same dialect or accent?

Turns out human brain is wired to be efficient at learning and copying behaviors from others around them, often times unconsciously. When the learned behavior is a particular way of pronouncing...

Have you ever found yourself feeling bad walking away from an ineffective conversation, especially a high stake one? Although carrying an effective conversation requires many skills that you need to develop and refine over years, there are some low hanging fruit yet high ROI things you can do to...

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.

--Sun Tzu, The Art of War

The...

Building A Second Brain is a methodology for saving and systematically reminding us of the ideas, inspirations, insights, and connections we’ve gained through our experience. It expands our memory and our intellect using the modern tools of technology and networks. (source)

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A mistake is only a mistake if you make it twice.

— Robin S. Sharma

The Challenge

Have you experience the following moments after failing an interview?

• “Gosh, I wish I didn’t say that!”
• “Gee, I should have used the other better example when answering that...