I consider myself a life long student. Being in school was just a chapter in my life. Grade school, middle school, high school, college, grad school. All these “traditional schools” gave me knowledge, skills, and a sense of understanding about the world. Fast forward many years after grad school, I am currently getting an education….
Author: Nirmal Thapa
Goal setting
Have you found yourself struggling to achieve your goals? Do you feel overwhelmed that you don’t have enough time to work on your goals? Do you put off working on your goals for tomorrow or the week after? Here’s something useful to answer the questions above: A KICK ASS GUIDE TO GOAL SETTING A ONE…
Use Khaalisisi for recycling
Waste management is still fairly a new concept in Nepal. Typically a waste management company visits a vicinity once a week and collects the waste from that area. Then there are about 13000 Khaalisisi friends who go to different neighborhoods on their bicycles to collect old newspapers, books, metal/steel among other things. Now Khaalisisi, a…
The foundation
A lot of projects get started. Some big and some small. Yet, I believe the right team can make all the difference and the project’s foundation is very important. I have been part of many projects including planning company events. Most recently, I was part of a team that organized our company’s annual gala. Our…
Sleep well
How to sleep like an elite athlete!
1000 True Fans
I first read about the concept of 1000 True Fans in Tim Ferriss’ Tools of Titans. I finally read the essay of 1000 True Fans by Kevin Kelly and recommend it to the creators out there. It was very helpful to me. Here are the first few paragraphs of the essay: To be a successful…
Publish yourself
You should write a book by Seth Godin from his podcast, Akimbo.
The Next Challenge
We love challenges. We’re here to take on challenges, successfully accomplish them, and then take on newer challenges. What’s your next challenge?
Community Leave at SastoDeal
SastoDeal, a local startup from Kathmandu has Sastodeal “Community Leave” program where an employee gets 1 – 3 days paid-leave for him/her to do community work. A worthy initiative by SastoDeal and I encourage other companies to do what they can to take up causes they are passionate about. I believe that all companies and…
Culture as USP
Many technology companies in Kathmandu offer similar benefits to their employees. The benefits are as follows: 5 working days, 2 day weekends, subsidized lunch/dinner, transportation, accidental and medical health insurance among others. For potential employees considering whether to join one technology company over another, it could be best to look into the work that the…
Yerkes-Dodson law
The Yerkes-Dodson law is about the relationship between stress and performance. The law states that performance increases with mental stress, but only up to a point. When levels of stress become too high, performance decreases. If you are in any capacity working to improve someone’s performance, use moderate stress to increase his/her performance. Consider skill…
Love
Love makes you feel complete. Love makes you alive. Love makes you…
AI For Everyone
AI For Everyone, a non-technical course available on Coursera will help you understand AI technologies and spot opportunities to apply AI to problems in your own organization. This is a great opportunity for anyone interested to learn about AI. I’m excited to take this course and had been waiting for it for a while. Read…
Service wins
There will always be vendors who can do the services you need at a cheaper price. You can research, talk to people, do more research and find the lowest cost provider. But is cost the only factor to consider when your business operations needs to run smoothly? Excellent customer service will matter more when the…
Are you putting a man on the moon?
The story goes like this: President John F. Kennedy was visiting NASA headquarters for the first time in 1961. While touring the facility, the President introduced himself to a janitor and asked him what he did at NASA. The janitor replied “I’m helping put a man on the moon!” What I got from this was…
Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have A Dream” Speech | History
Few thoughts on school curriculum
How about teaching young minds about character, purpose, and spirituality while they are in school? We teach students a wide variety of subjects in a span of 18-20 years. They add layers of knowledge on various subjects as the years go by. By the time they graduate, they would have the academic knowledge, mastered test…
Making a difference in the world
Bill and Melinda Gates were asked by a reader What would your advice be to young people who want to make a difference in the world for the better? Here’s what they had to say: Bill: Choose a cause that’s important to you and get involved. Whether you can donate your money, your time, or…
Sapiens
I started reading Yuval Noah Harari’s book Sapiens A Brief History of Humankind. Some initial points from the book that I found profound and gripping. Three important revolutions shaped the course of history: the Cognitive Revolution, Agricultural Revolution, and the Scientific Revolution. Homo sapiens had siblings: Homo rudolfensis (East Africa), Homo erectus (East Asia); and…
Growing as a team
To grow as a team, I believe a certain level of “conflict” with members in the team is good and necessary to become better. By “conflict”, I mean a respectful and logical disagreement on the topic at hand. It could be that the other person is looking at the problem or solution from a different lens….