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  1. Numpad App for iPhone – A Simple Fix for iOS Users Who Need a Numeric Keypad
    Mar 24, 2025 · original
    There are apps you download for fun. And then there are apps like Numpad by Alpa , which quietly become part of your everyday workflow—without the bells and whistles. Just pure utility. If you’re someone who crunches numbers, edits spreadsheets, or navigates creative software that loves a numeric keypad, you know the pain of using a default iOS keyboard that doesn’t allow you to open the Number Keyboard when you need it. What Is Numpad? Numpad is a slick little iPhone (and iPad) app that transforms your iOS device into a fully functional wireless numeric keypad . The app doesn’t try to be flashy. It focuses on doing one thing exceptionally well—turning your phone into the number pad that Apple forgot to include. How It Works The setup is refreshingly simple. You install the app on your iPhone or iPad and give the necessary permissions, That’s it. The layout mimics a standard physical num
  2. Calendar Scheduling for Irregular Recurring Events on Shifting Weekdays (in 10 Seconds)
    Mar 23, 2025 · original
    Not all weeks are created equal—especially when your schedule doesn’t follow the standard Monday-to-Friday routine. In my case, each day of the week isn’t tied to its name. Instead, I work with a day order system, where classes and routines are labeled as Day 1, Day 2, and so on. If there’s a holiday in the middle of the week, the schedule just shifts forward. That means what was originally Day 3 on Wednesday might now fall on Thursday. So yeah—good luck setting recurring tasks in a system like this. Why Typical Calendar Setups Fall Apart Most productivity apps assume one thing: your weekly routine stays the same. But when a random holiday causes the whole structure to shift, recurring events quickly turn into a mess. I found myself constantly dragging and dropping events, rechecking class schedules, and second-guessing if I was even looking at the right “day.” The result? Wasted time an
  3. Why you should not reward individual performances.
    Mar 11, 2025 · original
    The way you reward performance defines your culture. The culture around you. The work culture you want to nurture in your team. Reward individuals, and you create competition. A system where personal achievements matter more than collective success. It drives high performers but also breeds rivalry and isolation. Reward teams, and you build interdependence. A culture where collaboration thrives and success is shared. It fosters unity, not division. Which one do you want? Competition or collaboration? Your reward system decides. Read More on Why you should not reward individual performances.
  4. The Power of a Single Decisive Reason in Decision-Making
    Mar 11, 2025 · original
    Making decisions can be overwhelming. Too many factors. Too many choices. But what if you focused on just one decisive reason? Instead of juggling multiple considerations, identify the single most important factor that aligns with your goal. This simplifies the process and removes unnecessary doubts. For example, when choosing between two jobs, ask yourself: “Which one gets me closer to my long-term vision?” That one question could outweigh salary, title, or location. This method isn’t about ignoring details. It’s about prioritizing clarity over confusion. Try it. Next time you’re stuck, pick one decisive reason—and move forward with confidence. Read More on The Power of a Single Decisive Reason in Decision-Making
  5. NotebookLM – A research assistant for everyone
    Feb 7, 2025 · original
    I recently tried NotebookLM by Google. How it works? You upload a set of files into it and can extract insight from that content by asking questions. More or less, it works like chatGPT, except you set the limits of the source from which your question is to be answered. That means it will not respond from a general point of view but from the content of the source you have given to it. When it responds, it comes up with a summary or insight with the citation to the source. It is most suitable for learning, brainstorming, and doing research surveys. Audio notes. One good feature is that you can produce audio notes similar to a podcast. This feature is called Deep Dive. I have not used it, so I have no idea how good it is. Comparison. There’s no appropriate way to compare this with chatGPT. As chatGPT responds to each question from the uploaded content along with its pre-trained knowledge.
  6. Removing all the frictions of writing — to become a successful and consistent writer
    Oct 4, 2024 · original
    My workflow that produced 200+ articles per year There’re plenties of frictions. I am not going to address each one by one. I am just gonna give you my workflow that eliminated most of the friction in my decades of online writing endeavor. So here’s the most fearsome one. Staring at a blank page. I have plenty of tips to avoid getting stuck on a blank page. Among the first ones is never to start from a blank page. How do you not start from a blank page? Have an idea pre-populated in your draft page. It may be a “line” or an outline for a specific topic or collection of random points. How to do that? How do you never run out of ideas? Just record all of your ideas for later use —whenever inspiration strikes. Have a way to draft an inspiring idea —quickly. It could be a pocket notebook or any app. When you want to write, pick an idea from the collected list. You don’t have to choose the be
  7. Peter Principle: Why most bosses are incompetent?
    Jul 25, 2024 · original
    It is not your boss’s fault — and certainly not yours. If you work better, you get appraised. You get promoted. If you again prove yourself in your new position, then you’ll be promoted again. You get promoted, because you aced in the current position. What if someone stay in that position for a longer time — without getting promoted? At some point the people are promoted until they find themselves in a position where their competency is not enough to do the justice to that position. Different needs, same expertise The new position needs new expertise. It may demand a new level of competency. Not the one you had before the recent promotion. The lack of certain competence is found only when it is demanded. Ultimately a person ends up in a position that he can’t manage with the expertise that he has now. It’s not uncommon to find unfit bosses. This theory is known as Peter’s principle. The
  8. The words that helped me to have a better relationship with my work and with myself.
    Mar 16, 2024 · original
    Whatever the work is, do it well — not for the boss — but for yourself. You make the job; it doesn’t make you. You are not the work you do; you are the person you are. Words stolen from Tony Robbins. Every time I revisit these highlights in Readwise, it will resonate with me for at least a week. We often confuse our role in work with ourselves. The respect and value you get from your peers is often not for you. Either it is for the role you play or the work you can do for them. As a person. As a role. Two different things. NOT the two sides of the same coin. Your work doesn’t define you. But almost all the time it contributes more than anything for others to evaluate you — and judge you. You have a definition of yourself in your mind. But no one cares about it. You want them to see it. You want them to recognize it. You want them to validate it. Unfortunately, it is never going to happen
  9. Type faster with Text Blaze (a text expander) and share snippets across your personal and work accounts.
    Mar 1, 2024 · original
    I was using Magical text expander, until today – on my Chrome at work and on my personal Mac. I had issues with Magical when I used it along with Google Docs. (I faced issues during printing, like getting extra empty pages printed). Later I found the culprit and searched for other options. Check my post on Magical – Text Expander (for Chrome) I found Text Blaze. A super convenient text expander for Chrome. (It seems, it is also available for Mac and Windows.) The usage is pretty simple. Check the below video. An additional advantage is, that I can install Text Blaze on my work account and personal account at home and then share the snippets I created across the accounts. Sharing in the free version is limited to 10 people it seems. But for me, it is only 2 accounts. When compared to other solutions I tried before, it is much faster and better. Read More on Type faster with Text Blaze (a
  10. How to make your ideas powerful? & The first actionable step.
    Feb 26, 2024 · original
    You lost your most successful idea — just because You forget that (after a few days) You rejected it because it looks stupid to you You didn’t complete it (in your thoughts) You didn’t proceed further to action You’re afraid that it is going to fail You’re not ready to invest yourself in that idea You delayed it (and found later that the same idea was implemented by someone — successfully) You ignored it. You thought it was just a random thought that crossed your mind and had no significance. You didn’t even recognize it. The world’s greatest ideas were just killed brutally even before it was born. What can you do? Write it down. (Anywhere, by any means). Write it down immediately. Never hesitate, never discriminate. If it looks like a sh*t, then you’ve done it right. Writing completes thinking. Writing helps you to retain it — for a long time. Writing helps you to revisit it. Enhance it
  11. Readwise to RoamResearch Export template
    Feb 26, 2024 · original
    I improved the template code to make the exported content look better on Roam Research (from Readwise). Get the code for $0 - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/alvistor/e/215736 Read More on Readwise to RoamResearch Export template
  12. Most Talented people are not successful. Here’s the reason why.
    Feb 15, 2024 · original
    Most talented people are perfectionists. They won’t delegate — out of fear that the other person might perfect it. They want to do everything by themselves. But if they invest their time spent on non-core tasks they will accomplish much greater outcomes. Perfection is the enemy of progress. For them, significant or insignificant, they want everything should be done their way. They can’t compromise with the results. Do you know the Pareto’s Principle? 80% of the outcome will be from the 20% work. To achieve the remaining – final 20% outcome (perfecting) you may need to put 80% of your time and effort. So they put a lot into reaping less. For them, the ROI is always less. They suck at managing resources and marketing. Most talented players are bad team players. And they have less emotional intelligence. If you want to move fast — go alone If you want to go a long way – take your team with
  13. 45+ single-word ChatGPT prompts to write like a pro
    Feb 14, 2024 · original
    The following single-word prompts are suitable for text-generative AI services like Google’s Gemini (formerly Bard), ChatGPT, etc to rewrite your ideas better. How to use the following single-word prompts. Just use any one of the following prompts followed by your content. The syntax to use, single-word-prompt the below sentence shift+enter your content here prompt the following sentence. your-sentence-here prompt the following paragraph. shift-enter your paragraph Example Usage: Reframe the below sentence. A black hole is a region of spacetime where gravity is so strong that nothing, including light and other electromagnetic waves, has enough energy to escape it. That’s all. Now pick the appropriate prompt from the below list as per your need. Reframe To restructure the words for better understanding. Reinterpret To modify the approach to explain something. Rewrite To use entirely diffe
  14. How to downlaod images in .jpg or .png format instead of WebP – in Chrome.
    Jan 7, 2024 · original
    WebP is a format that Chrome (Google) encourages websites to use to make the browsing experience faster and better. Unfortunately, images in WebP format won’t work outside Chrome. Especially in Medium and in WordPress too. Whenever I try to download an image using Chrome, if the image is in WebP format, chrome downloads it in WebP format only. If that happens, you need to explicitly convert them by using converter software or online converters. I recently found a Chrome Extension to solve this issue. Here is the link → https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/save-image-as-type/gabfmnliflodkdafenbcpjdlppllnemd?hl=en After installing this extension, right-click the image you want to download in a specific format (.jpg or in.png). Refer to the below screenshot. If you’re someone who wants to download images for your story in Medium from Google image search, you’ll need this. Read More on H
  15. Kaizen: Sure-Shot Way to Absolute Self-Growth (no steps to follow, only mindset shift)
    Sep 25, 2023 · original
    Growth is change. Progressive change. In Japanese, “Kaizen” translates to “improvement”, or “change for the better”. Kaizen as a philosophy is all about improvement. No matter where you are now, how you perform, or where to reach. Forget the perfection; Aim for progress. You don’t have to build Rome in a day. Actually, you can’t. Perfection is the outcome of continuous improvement. If you perfected something at the first attempt, then you are lucky or else your work is evaluated by fools. Perfection is a perception. You can’t perfect something. You can give your maximum. You can aim to produce something wonderful. But believe me, there will be always (plenty of) gaps to improve. The “ideal” moves a step away from you when you reach it. You can’t perfect things. You can only improve it. Day by Day. One by One. Once vs Many If it is a process, workflow, or method, then improve one aspect o
  16. Feel like your life is “frozen”? Deal one crisis at a time…
    Sep 20, 2023 · original
    Having many problems in life that need to be solved immediately? Feeling the pressure? Feeling like nothing moving in your life but you want to do a lot in your life? Just deal with one crisis at a time. Take one issue, and roughly plan how you are going to solve it. Then work on it, for just an hour every day. Repeat until it reaches its own flow (a fly-wheel effect), and embeds with your daily activities. Either the problem will get solved soon or it will give you confidence that the problem is already taken care of by your process. Then select your next issue. Repeat. You definitely can’t solve all the problems at once. And focusing on multiple problems will make things complicated. Differentiate needs from wants, then focus on solving needs first I recommend choosing chaos from your life in the following priority. Mental and Physical Health (You need this to conquer other areas of li
  17. Screw the Confusion in Decision-Making: Choosing Reasons Without Hassle
    Sep 20, 2023 · original
    You don’t have to consider and weigh multiple reasons. One good reason is enough to make a decision. The SDR decision-making framework ( Single Decisive Reason: A Simple and Fast Decision-making Method ) says that. Single Reason, that’s all you want to make a decision. The question is which one is that (among all the reasons you have)? What could be that ‘one’ reason that outweighs all the other reasons? How to identify it? The conundrum of ranking the reasons. The SDR method is supposed to be easy, simple, and less confusing. Right? It is. Don’t list your reasons. Then you don’t have to rank them based on their significance or impact. I myself try to simplify the process of identifying the SDR (that single reason). Just have two things in your mind. Your Values Your Needs (not “Wants”) Your Values and Your Needs. If you can find a reason that rises from any of these and is not against b
  18. Single Decisive Reason: A simple and fast decision-making method.
    Sep 17, 2023 · original
    You make that decision. Whether it is small or big, trivial or critical, even whether you like to or not, you have to make it. Your decision makes you. ‘You’ are the consequence of the entire decision you’ve made your whole life. What makes the decision-making process efficient? Speed. Usually, there will be lots and lots of parameters to consider before deciding. Every parameter has a different weightage and impacts the outcome in a range of possibilities. Evaluating all the options and deciding may take a lot of time and effort. Lots of options = confusion. Confusion = stagnancy and delay. Sometimes the loss due to not deciding is quite greater than the loss due to making a slightly less good solution. To make it quick, you need to prune your options and parameters. Most of the time one option gives an edge over the other. That minute difference is not a big deal when time passes. All
  19. 9 Extremely Useful Laws for Work & Life (to remember always)
    Sep 16, 2023 · original
    1. Murphys Law Anything that can go wrong, (if you give the chance) will go wrong. The more you fear something, the more likely it will happen. focus on the path; not the hurdles. 2. Kidlin’s Law If you can write the problem down clearly, then the matter is half solved. Externalize your problems to reduce the load on your mind. complete your thinking with writing. 3. Gilbert’s Law The biggest problem at work is, that no one tells you what to do. Finding a way ways to solve a problem is part of the job. ask and then do. else, do and then ask sorry —if it goes wrong. 4. Walson’s Law If you keep putting information and intelligence at first all the time, money keeps coming in. Many people do things better than you, not because they are more capable (than you), but because they have more information (than you). IQ and then EQ and then ego. 5. Falkland’s Law If you don’t have to make a decisi
  20. Eustress – The power & benefits of “Good Stress”.
    Aug 20, 2023 · original
    The good and bad stress Pressure creates stress. Expectations, deadlines, or anything the task demands is the pressure. The pressure makes you work faster, better and pushes you to cross your own limits. Until a particular point. Beyond that point, it starts to become bad. Distress The bad stress. The pressure pushes you to the limits and beyond. It breaks you. Leads to exhaustion, Anxiety — and diminishes your performance. In fact, it won’t let you perform. At this stage, your attention has fallen apart. Everything becomes hard and unmanageable. But, that’s only distress. Eustress The stress can be good. Actually essential to achieve your peak performance. If not, it triggers you to the ‘flow’ state of peak performance with ease. The “good stress” is the result of “positive pressure”. Eustress is a form of stress that brings about a sense of excitement, motivation, and fulfillment . You

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