Suppose you want a new wooden cabinet for your home. So you hire a carpenter. You provide all the wood and nails and glue and panes of glass that would be required for the cabinet construction. …

Think about what you do in a day of work — what your primary profession is. Now, listen to these items I’m about to say, carefully, and see if you are one of the these. You could be a writer, a painter, a musician, a film-maker, an artist, a designer…

Have you ever moved from one city to another city? It could be for college, or it could be for work. Have you ever changed your career? By this, I do not mean changing from say an Android developer to a Flutter developer. …

In April 2017, in Cupertino, California, employees started pouring in, into “the Spaceship”. I’m of course, not talking about an actual unidentified flying object — but rather the culmination of Norman Foster’s incredible architectural design, and Steve Jobs’ vision — that led to the creation of Apple Park. …

Feedback and critique are perhaps the pillars of any piece of valuable work. …

In 1960, John Kennedy and Richard Nixon fought it out in the first Presidential debate. Now, if you’ve seen debates, and you see one till the end, you would probably have a correct guess about the winner of the debate. It may not be the candidate you were supporting throughout…

Back in the day, the only available vacuum cleaners used bags to hold the dust. A man called James Dyson was vacuuming his home, when he observed that his vacuum cleaner would constantly be running out of suction power. The reason this happened was because the dust was clogging up…

To design is to empathise, to design is to solve problems, to design is to make lives better. You probably know this already. I’d personally like to add another aspect to this — to design is to help others design well. …

Let’s play a game. Suppose we have a 4-point crossing in the middle of a town, where the roads from North, South, East and West meet. Now, one day at exactly 12 noon, four cars arrive at the crossing from the 4 directions. The first car is that of the…