I had just finished talking about CoolCoach to a prospective funder. I was high on adrenaline because I had finally met someone who understood the importance of fitness and activity to reduce the risk of NCDs, who understood social enterprises, and who had read Acumen's Blueprint to Scale report. In...
Blog by Suraj
Frequently Received Advice (FRA*) - You should go to Skoll!
22 Mar 2025 05:19 PM
Why don't I use Linux anymore?
24 Feb 2025 05:36 PM
Though it had been a couple of days, I was unable to get this nagging question out of my head, "Why don't I use Linux anymore?" I don't remember how the conversation got there but for some reason I started talking about love for Linux and how I spent my university days as an anti-Microsoft...
The BIG Shift - Consumption to Creation of Knowledge
14 Feb 2025 01:56 PM
Over the years, I have built a voracious appetite to consume books, articles, blogs, videos, and off late, podcasts & audio books. Consuming has always been easy for me but creation (writing in my case) has not. My father has been trying to persuade me to write for a while bu...
Increasing Entitlement, Reducing Appreciation
21 Oct 2024 04:31 PM
In our household until recently, we primarily used delivery apps to order in food. Over time as tracking improved on these apps, I started to time my ordering to ensure food delivery to coincide with when we planned to eat.
I remember feeling frustrated once when as soon as I placed my order fr...
I didn't want to be part of "The Development Set"
16 Oct 2024 06:59 PM
I left my job as a software engineer in late 2005 to join the development sector. Almost a decade later, I made another big change in my life, I decided to start my own (social) entrepreneurial journey. One of the reasons to make this change was I felt that I was increasingly becoming part of The De...
How do I know social media has changed how we think?
15 Oct 2024 07:01 PM
I don’t use WhatsApp or any other social media*
I am someone who aspires to be present. I love the idea of doing one thing at a time. I crave the ability to concentrate on a task for a couple of hours, like I was able to when I still coded.
I am also easily distracted. Messaging apps and socia...
Book Review - Design For How People Learn by Julie Dirksen
14 Oct 2024 06:52 PM
My verdict - If you are someone who is even remotely connected to creating learning materials or courses of any kind, please do read this book.
As part of our work at CoolCoach, we had to design courses that helped sports persons from low-income families gain employment as entry level fitness c...
Learning through Conversations
13 Oct 2024 04:27 PM
I am curious by nature and I love learning about new things. If something really piques my interest, I enjoy going deep so that I can have an opinion on the subject.
Here is how I usually learn -
- I discover something new via something I heard (conversation, podcast), something I read (book, blog...