Devesh Uba’s Blog

December 25, 2022

"Love your crooked neighbour, with your crooked heart" - W.H. Auden I first heard the word 'metta' during my first ten day Vipassana course in India. On the tenth day the teacher asked us to 'project our lovingkindness to the world' - I'm sorry what? Do I even have loving kindness to share it with […]

August 20, 2022

I've finished reading 70% of Matthew Dicks's latest book 'Someday is Today'. I've been a fan of Matthew Dicks, and I highly recommend his book Storyworthy. The first part of the book was mostly about realizing the importance of time. I agree we need to be aware of the limited time we've got and protect […]

June 16, 2022

I've recently set up my PKM system, and I'll recommend every knowledge worker to try it out . If you're interested to learn how I get started, you can find it in this post. The post received some good feedback and I learnt that Personal Knowledge Management system could be overwhelming when you're starting out. […]

April 25, 2022

Having read many books on being more productive and optimizing work, this was a refreshing read. It could well be the 'anti-productivity' book we all need. The post includes e-mail correspondence with the author too.

April 1, 2022

'All successful people wake up before sunrise' my mom would always tell me growing up. She tried her best to make me get out of bed early, but unfortunately it didn't work. As far as I remember I was never a morning person, or so I thought.