Here are 19 books that are in my book bucket list for 2019. My plan is to read these books over the course of the year. Becoming by Michelle Obama This is a memoir of the First Lady of the United States of America—the first African American to serve in that role. I’ve always found…
Author: Nirmal Thapa
Making a New Year’s Resolution? Here’s some tips
2019 is right at our doorstep. Are you excited about 2019 and what it will bring? I’m sure you are. Here’s some helpful tips to make your New Year’s resolution stick. Something to ponder upon as you get started on your New Year’s resolution list : Derek Sivers says it’s better to keep goals secret…
Venture Talk with Rajeev Amatya
Rajeev Amatya, Managing Director at daraz.com.np will discuss the “Future of E-Commerce in Nepal” on Monday, October 8th, 2018 at Nepal Tourism Board Hall (Bhrikutimandap) from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm. I wrote a blog E-commerce in Nepal heats up, where I shared my assumptions on what would happen in the next 3-5 years in Nepal’s ecommerce scene….
Making a global impact
There are certain moments in your life when you get a chance to make a global impact. You’re excited to embark on that journey and see where it will go. You’re thrilled about the process itself as much as about the results. That moment for me now is with the Artificial Intelligence Scholarship Program powered…
Rules for Deep Work
Cal Newport’s Deep Work Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World is nicely summarized by Productivity Game. Three rules for doing Deep Work are: 1. Schedule distractions – Schedule the time that you will allow yourself to check email/social media/chat etc. Write it down as a Distraction break and hold your focus until then….
Best time to start a business in Nepal
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Root of innovation
Competition breeds innovation. It’s a survival thing. If you’re not innovating when the competition is coming at you, then you’re gone. There are thousands of websites (around 140,000 per day) that pop up on the internet. However, our daily visits are on a particular few websites where we spend most of our times. Why is…
Purpose (Volunteering at KAT Centre)
Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.- Muhammad Ali The dogs were surrounding us as we fed them some biscuits. They were completely overjoyed. This particular Sunday, I was very happy that we decided to volunteer at KAT Centre in Budhanilkantha even for a few hours. The volunteering experience…
Kul Chandra Gautam’s Global Citizen from Gulmi
I’m looking forward to reading Kul Chandra Gautam’s Global Citizen from Gulmi. Launched in Kathmandu, Nepal in early August 2018, the book chronicles the life of Kul Chandra Gautam’s from the hills of Gulmi to the halls of the United Nations. It has received a lot of coverage and praise over social media, online and print mediums….
Helping others to succeed
“I’ve always had this theory that, if you help enough people get what they want, you’ll always get what you want.” — George Raveling Coach George Raveling’s theory is more of a fact in my opinion. When you help others to become successful, you are creating value. When you create enough value for others, you increase your…
Perhaps, sir, you will someday come back with books…
That’s what the headmaster of a local school told John Wood, a Microsoft executive in 1998 after he had just completed the eighteen day, two-hundred mile trek of Nepal’s Annapurna mountain range. John did return to Nepal with books and started Room to Read. Today over 20,000 communities in 15 countries have Room to Read…
The market
Binod Chaudhary shared a famous story of the two salesmen going to the same market to Kitty Pong Sri (owner of Thai Preserved Foods) who was visiting Nepal. He said when the two salesmen went to the market; one came back with the report that since nobody eats there is no market, and the other…
the process
“For me, the beauty is all in the process. It’s all in the journey. It’s all in building something. That’s the most fun for me” – Kobe Bryant. Kobe’s been known to talk about the importance of “the process” in countless interviews. He loves the grind, the hustle and the discipline it takes to become…
E-commerce in Nepal heats up
Sasto Deal. Daraz Nepal. UG Bazaar. Muncha. Now eSewaPasal. There’s more ecommerce companies in Nepal and I’ve only mentioned the ones that I regularly hear of. It’s exciting to witness the growth of ecommerce in Nepal in the last 5-7 years. Alibaba Group acquired the entire share capital of Daraz, the Pakistan-based e-commerce company that…
Internal leadership
Each company has a culture. Some cultures are lead by senior management, others lead by the employees and some lead equally by the management and employees. In any company, I believe there are a few people who aspire to lead, want to do new things and make a bigger impact in the company/society. Some company…
The gift of words
Words are powerful. When used at the right moment with the right person, the right words can move mountains. Words come so easy to us that perhaps we use it so casually that sometimes we don’t realize its full impact on the person we’re speaking to. As machines become better than us in doing most…
Soft skills matter
Soft skills matter more than ever. In this age of automation, machines are becoming more efficient doing the mundane tasks. We are then left to handle the ever more important human part. In the 2018 Workplace Learning Report published by LinkedIn, it mentioned that the #1 priority for talent development in 2018 is training for…
France wins the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia
France beat Croatia 4-2 in the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia to lift the coveted FIFA World Cup. France exuded brilliant team work, near perfect execution and solid composure to beat Croatia. Analysis of France’s dominance are abound after their victory. According to ESPN’s Stats & Information Group, with an average age of 25.4 years (weighted by…
Boosting the striatum
“It’s nice to be important but it’s more important to be nice.” What a beautiful quote. Being nice is the gift we all can give to someone. It’s not expensive to be nice to people; in fact it takes more work to be an asshole. We all have enough to give, no one has more…
Lifelong student
Things change. Technology is speeding up the change. We are all students in one form or another. Graduating from college or a university is not enough. The goal now more than ever is to be a lifelong student. The drive to be better than yesterday has to be there every single day. The competition is…