Bhardwaj Rish

One doesn't stumble into greatness. Everything great takes solid effort. And effort takes hours. But where do you find those hours? The human schedule is full of things that keep us away from putting in those hours. Eat, exercise, hygiene, social, mental well-being, you name it. A usual day (at best) in most of my software engineer friends' lives. When I was in 11th and 12th grade, my parents made it possible for me to just study, and care for nothing else in the world. Those were the years I put in the most hours to a discipline than I ever have. There was no concept of study life balance . That study life balance was to come after 2 years of this solid grind once you got admitted to a top tier university. Until then, weekdays meant school all day and study all evening. Weekends meant study all day and study all night. And I miss that. - The reason most of us never get to put in any solid effort, raw hours, in pursuit of getting really good at something is because humans an...

You're tasked to design a hotel room. You start with a bare room, and you have to turn it into a fully functioning hotel room. What do you do? From memory, you know what hotel rooms have: a bed, a toilet, a cupboard, a shower. All the bare minimal functional things. You remember you like the bathmat at a hotel you stayed at a year ago.  You put it all together and you get a hotel room. It works, but it's really just the basics.  It solves the the obvious problems, but it misses the actual experience. When thinking from memory, or without structure, you miss out on small details that make the experience go from being the bare minimum to very pleasant.  Specifically: A guest opens the door - what is the first thing they do? They probably look for the light switch - can they find it without thinking? They dig in their luggage to find a change of clothes - where do they place their baggage? What is their shower at this hotel like?  They need a place to keep their toiletr...