Mohnish Thallavajhula

Category: Research

  • Trees make you rich

    Trees make you rich

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    Paul Graham’s insight on trees in neighborhoods seems very interesting

  • Poor design or versatile design?

    Poor design or versatile design?

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    I’ve gathered a few places where the “upload” or the “outbox” icon is being used. It’s being used for different purposes and I have no idea what the original purpose of the icon is.

  • Et tu, Gmail?

    Et tu, Gmail?

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    I investigated a spam email that was sent to me and tried to make sense of why Gmail might’ve missed marking the email as Spam

  • Personal Knowledge Management

    Personal Knowledge Management

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    I have a habit of documenting ideas, thoughts, learnings, etc. Naturally, I tend to try out a lot of note-taking applications in an effort to find the perfect app. Over the years, I’ve used a lot of note-taking apps. Every single time, I saw myself coming back to the default Notes.app that ships with macOS/iOS.…

  • Inversion

    Inversion

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    A while ago I was reading about mental models and came across this article about Inversion. The following sentence from that article intrigued me – Avoiding stupidity is easier than seeking brilliance FS Blog If you go by the face value of it, it might seem like there isn’t much to it. More often than…

  • PIT Score

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    Starting a new project and not finishing it can be quite a discouraging experience. If it ends up becoming something you tend to do often, you lose the motivation to pursue new ideas and that can be bad. How many times have you started a project and felt like you should’ve picked another one? What…