Web Browsing in Emacs - EWW

In the past few days I have taken a liking to reading article or just browsing web using EWW. EWW is a browser built into Emacs. My intention to browse web using EWW is derived from the fact that: EWW is text based: Being text based is actually a good thing. It means that I am focused on the content only and I can channel my energies onto the task at hand....

January 16, 2024 · 2 min · 277 words · Kaushal Bundel

Core Action for Products

What is core action? Core Action for any product is the central theme of the product. It is the action performed by the user that will provide maximum utility the product has to offer. Once the user has performed this step repeatedly and successfully, one can be sure that the user understands the product and is comfortable in using the product. Why is core action important? Successful core action signifies that the user has derived major utility the product is offering....

December 29, 2023 · 1 min · 213 words · Kaushal Bundel

A Gentle Introduction to Ideal Customer Profile

What’s the need for ICP? Imagine that you are starting up with a new venture that is geared towards manufacturing candies. The candies that are in your mind fulfil a niche segment which no one has thought of yet. You are upbeat about what is to come. The investors have yet to be onboarded but you have some early capital that has been brought with the help of friends and family....

November 2, 2023 · 3 min · 588 words · Kaushal Bundel

Best Quote on Talent

I have got this quote while reading the book “Grit” by Angela Duckworth. The quote goes as: Superlative performance is really a confluence of dozens of small skills or activities, each one learned or stumbled upon, which have been carefully drilled into habit and then are fitted together in a synthesized whole. There is nothing extraordinary or superhuman in those actions; only the fact that they are done consistently and correctly, and all together produce excellence....

October 26, 2023 · 2 min · 365 words · Kaushal Bundel

Jevons Paradox: A lament for using more

Jevons Paradox implies that in the long term, an increase in efficiency in the resource usage will generate an increase in resource consumption rather than a decrease 1. Jevons Paradox is a term conceived in economics by English economist William Stanley Jevons in his 1865 book “The Coal Question”. Jevons observed that England’s coal consumption increased after James Watt introduced new efficient steam engine, though by all means the coal consumption should have decreased as a result of higher efficiency of coal powered engines 2....

October 23, 2023 · 1 min · 192 words · Kaushal Bundel