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Unleash your inner child: a path to wellbeing and healing

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  Unleash your inner child: a path to wellbeing and healing Being child again... A few years back, I was visiting Shegaon, Maharashtra - an abode of one of the tallest religious figures in the region 'Gajanan Maharaja'. I was mesmerised by the grandeur of the 'Anand Sagar' complex with a lake, play park and garden. To my astonishment, I observed adults playing on swings, sea-saws and a lot of other adventure games. In an instant, I rushed towards the closest swing to reserve my seat. At that moment, a thought struck my mind. The last time I rushed to reserve my swing was probably before I became a teenager. That day, I played wild and played like a child, after decades. Pause a minute here, and think - when was the last time you had a similar experience?  Why do we pause being a child? As we grow up, we see grown-ups having a greater sense of freedom. I observe that once we grow up we can buy more chocolates and toys. Naturally, we levitate to be grown-up especially as...
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Book Review - Escaping the Build Trap by Mellisa Perri

As a product manager, what is more important - outcome or output? That the core question this book revolves around. Organizations are concerned about delivering value to the users of the product. But many times, we clearly do not identify where to focus to deliver the value. Many times we are caught in the trap of building more features, content assuming that more features mean more value. This book helps us focus on the sources of real value.  As a product manager, you can clearly correlate with the examples and concepts discussed in the book. Melissa brings a definitive clarity on where to focus the most. e.g. With the Netflix example, she mentions Reed Hastings - CEO of Netflix - decided to shut down the widely researched streaming player as he found the real value in the online content and not the hardware player. Melissa mentions iterates how brutally prioritizing the feature backlog helps Transferwise to only focus on the most valuable features. Throughout her book, Melissa s...
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