Day 30

It’s been 30 days since I decided to start-up.

Surprisingly, I’ve neither been too excited nor too worried. Even more surprising, I haven’t felt the necessity (yet) to work more than 4 to 8 hours a day – a stark contrast to how I functioned in my earlier life.

I recently launched this website using Notion but later migrated it to WordPress. Naturally, I messed up the migration, and the website was down for a few days. Yet, I slept peacefully, fully aware that anyone clicking a link from one of my LinkedIn articles would be greeted with the not-so-welcoming error “ERR_CERT_COMMON_NAME_INVALID”!

To be fair, the odds of someone clicking the link were about the same as finding a Yeti in a zoo. But still, it was kinda big deal for me to be able to sleep through this!

Over the past 30 days, I’ve also realized just how incredibly fortunate I am to have friends supporting me on this journey. Their willingness to pause their busy lives to guide and encourage me is something I deeply cherish.

Getting people to try out an idea in its raw form, document their findings, and spend time in meaningful conversations – all for the sake of improving the idea… has been a humbling experience.

As a founder, I’m filled with gratitude for having such people in my life. Thank you!

Another significant highlight has been these blogs. This exercise is invaluable in helping me validate assumptions and hypotheses early on.

I spend days researching different perspectives, listening to experts, reading books on diverse topics, structuring my thoughts with pen and paper, and drafting several versions before hitting publish. All this is in pursuit of finding simple, practical solutions for mindful productivity and mindful intelligence – solutions you can immediately put into practice.

“Clear writing gives poor thinking nowhere to hide.”

On a lighter note, all this writing also revealed how bad my handwriting has become when my son, with a straight face asked: “Are you writing, or are you scribbling?”