Learn these three skills that will enable you to build any software product that you want

<ul><li>The app or website where you are reading this idea is called the front-end</li><li>It's like a customer in a restaurant who consumes food similarly you are the client who consumes data through the app or website</li><li>That's the reason why we call the mobile app or websites frontend or client-side </li><li>Basically, anything that you can see, touch and interact with is called the front-end </li></ul>

Skill-1 #Ability to build the frontend

<ul><li>Traditionally websites built with HTML, CSS, Javascript </li><li>And android apps with Java or Kotlin and ios apps with swift</li><li>But in current times the speed to ship a product is what makes a company successful indeed it makes you more efficient </li><li>Hence there are many frameworks that have taken over which use to leverage your time </li><li>Frameworks to build web apps are React, Angular and Vue and frameworks to build mobile apps are Flutter, React Native and ionic</li><li>We personally use flutter not because it's the best but we have our hands already dirty on it</li></ul>

Way to build apps and websites

Let's hop back to the restaurant analogy<ul><li> it's the kitchen where the food is being cooked and all the materials are stored</li><li>Similarly, all the data that you throw at the app {Like the number of likes on your profile photo} is very meaningfully stored in the database</li></ul>

Skill-2 #Ability to create your own database

<ul><li>Databases are broad of two types SQL and no SQL you can search easily for their difference</li><li>You should have a knowledge of how both of these databases work and at least be comfortable in any one of them </li><li>The large company uses multiple databases according to their need so having broad knowledge on both the kind really helps</li><li>You don't have to be a master in databases you just need to know the basic queries and the initiation process and schemas to make your own database and start the magic</li></ul>

What to learn in databases

<ul><li>Have you entered a restaurant kitchen and started eating no right! </li><li>The job to serve the right food to the right person is of the waiter </li><li>Similarly, in a software product, the data stored has to be shown on the app to you like this amazing stash is being shown to you know</li><li>This is the job of the API which shows up the information stored in the database in a very meaningful way to you</li><li>it's responsible for showing the right message to the right people, Data encryption, process payments </li><li>And all the magical things that happen while using a piece of software </li></ul>

Skill-3 #Ability to build API's or networking

There are a whole lot of frameworks out there to build API's Some of the popular ones are<ol><li>Express-js {a framework on node-js}, </li><li>Django {a framework based on python}, </li><li>Rails {a framework based on Ruby}</li></ol>You absolutely don't need to learn all the frameworks you just have to learn one and make a whole lot of projects in order to get the right practice We personally use express you can use any one of the many options available

How to build your own API

Now you are ready to be a full-stack developerIf you want to learn all the aspects in a bit more detail and want to learn the best pathway to learning all these skills fairly quick then check out the source link which is our own youtube video where we have described everything in detail

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3 Skills that every programmer should learn

More mental models mean you have more ways to solve more problems.Don't you want to know all 25 of them

<ul><li>Most other professions are full of constraints upon one’s ideas. </li><li>Artists operate in a realm where most of these constraints are reduced,</li><li> so the bigger question is, “Why is this unique and interesting?”</li><li> Often the best companies produce things that look like art. </li><li>They are driven by uniqueness and creativity, rather than blandly filling out a list of specs.</li><li>How could your goals and projects be different if coolness, interestingness or refinement of an original idea were your priority?</li></ul>

1. Artist

<ul><li>There are many thinking tools native to economics, but a foundational one is simple. </li><li>People respond to incentives.</li><li>Tyler Cowen, the economist, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=actEhnPE4VM">delivers this best</a>, explaining that a key element of economic reasoning is that by changing a system involving people, the people do not stay in place. Instead, they respond to the new incentives accordingly.</li><li>Almost any action you’ll take alters the perceptions of incentives by other people you deal with. The economist in you should ask yourself, “if I change this, how will people react?”</li></ul>

2. Economist

<ul><li>While your financial advisor can only throw darts at picking which stocks will rise, </li><li>And a psychologist can only give hints at what people will do, </li><li>Engineers routinely create things that don’t currently exist and need to work 100% of the time.</li><li>The essence of doing this is to create a model of what you’re trying to work with, </li><li>Measure the relevant variables, and know to what degree of error you can expect in those measurements. </li><li>From there, you can actually know what will happen, instead of just guessing.</li></ul>

3. Engineer

<ul><li>Entrepreneurs often adopt a set of thinking tools that are often rare for normal professionals.</li><li>One major tool is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid_prototyping">rapid prototyping</a>. Many people see this as a product development strategy. </li><li>But in reality, it’s an abstract thinking tool that applies to a lot more than product R&D.</li><li>Sometimes the right way to solve a problem is simply to do a lot of things and see what works!</li><li>The essence of this thinking tool is that you go out and try a bunch of things, without waiting around for a perfect answer. </li><li>It also requires listening carefully for feedback, so you can get hints as to what to do next. </li></ul>

4. Entrepreneur

<ul><li>Doctors meet patients who have an array of symptoms. </li><li>From there, you need to act like a detective to deduce the most likely disease and create a plan to cure it. </li><li>During this, a wrong move might kill your patient, so you have to choose wisely.</li><li>Your computer doesn’t work. Your business has stopped making money, </li><li>Similarly, many problems can be solved by this thinking tool </li><li>The first thing to do is see what all the possible causes could be. </li><li>Next, you need to rule out as many possibilities based on the symptoms you observe.  </li><li>Knowing this can help you settle on a most likely diagnosis.</li></ul>

5. Doctor

<ul><li>Journalists rely on a ton of different thinking tools which allow them to write compelling stories that report the news fairly and accurately.</li><li>One of these thinking tools is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fact-checking">fact-checking</a>. Because journalists often need to interview sources who may be misleading. </li><li>Fact-checking may be time-consuming, but it results in a much more accurate worldview than simply blindly following a stray comment.</li><li>How would your life look if you dug around to check the veracity of key pieces of information you’re depending on to make decisions? </li></ul>

6. Journalist

<ul><li>A basic thinking tool of Scientists is the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_control#Controlled_experiments">controlled experiment</a>. </li><li>Keep all the variables the same, except the one you want to test, and see what happens. </li><li>Too many people draw inferences from “experiments” that are anything but have many conflicting variables </li><li>that make drawing conclusions about their experiences much more difficult. </li><li>How many of your beliefs about work and life withstand such scrutiny? </li><li>Undergo such testing? Maybe you could benefit from a little more scientific thinking tools in your life.</li></ul>

7. Scientist

<ul><li>The thinking tools of a mathematician depend on having a much higher standard of what constitutes proof of something. </li><li>While an engineer may tolerate precision within some bounds, and an entrepreneur may be satisfied with a hunch,</li><li> a mathematician’s statements must be irrefutable or they don’t count. </li><li>Mathematical thinking tools help you be more rigorous and spot mistakes that may be relevant.</li></ul>

8. Mathematician

<ul><li>Programming encompasses a lot of thinking tools, but the most basic one is the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithm">algorithm</a>. </li><li>Algorithms are a set of steps that can be defined precisely so that they require no intelligence to perform each one, </li><li>yet the net result is a useful product.</li><li>A useful application of this is to look at the things you do and see which could be automated, simplified or refactored. </li><li>you can think more like a programmer in many other domains of life. </li><li>What things do you repeat often in your work which could be automated?</li><li> What ambiguous process could you convert into a foolproof set of steps?</li></ul>

9. Programmer

<ul><li>Architects need to design buildings. </li><li>These are large structures that may take years to build, </li><li>and has to meet all the criteria of clients, contractors, city planners and building codes.</li><li>Oh, and they should also be beautiful.</li><li>One of the great tools of architectures is simply making a model.</li><li>Making a scaled down version of the thing you want to create, so you can see how it looks, and then envisioning how it will be on a larger version</li><li>it is difficult, but it often lets you see how reality will be before it’s too late to change it.</li></ul>

10. Architect

<ul><li>Salespeople work to deeply understand what the customer actually needs, </li><li>And then match them with products and services that fill that void. </li><li>This is incredibly hard to do, as you may recognize that you have the solution to a customer’s problem before they do.</li><li>A key thinking tool for success in this profession is to be able to infer what people’s worries and needs are. </li><li>This is a tool you can apply far beyond making an extra buck, to learn about human behaviour and thought process </li></ul>

11. Salesperson

<ul><li>The discipline embodied by military personnel is a very useful thinking tool. </li><li>By demanding conformity to those protocols, even when there is no danger, there is much less room for slip-ups.</li><li>This kind of discipline is also present in another live-endangering field: medicine. </li><li><a href="http://atulgawande.com/book/the-checklist-manifesto/">The Checklist Manifesto</a> takes this idea of military routine and applies it to mundane things like hand-washing, which save lives by avoiding infection.</li><li>Once you know the best way to do something, do it precisely and exactly, without sloppiness or somebody might get hurt.</li></ul>

12. Soldier

<ul><li>Chess has long been considered a game to improve one’s thinking. </li><li>There are plenty of thinking tools that can be mined from the game.</li><li>One is the ability to simulate the game in your mind’s eye.</li><li> A common trick of grandmasters is playing <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindfold_chess">blindfolded games</a>. </li><li>While this amazes spectators, it actually reinforces a useful practice—being able to see the game in your head, </li><li>So you can calculate future moves your opponent makes.</li><li>Trying to visualize what might happen, and then compare that prediction to reality. This can hone your simulation abilities</li></ul>

13. Chess Master

<ul><li>A useful tool here is how something is made suggests how to use it. </li><li>A well-designed door handle suggests push or pulls, without needing to say it. </li><li>A well-designed light switch should already tell you which rooms will be illuminated when you flip it.</li><li>What if you designed your speeches so that they automatically caused the audience to shift their thinking where you need them to go? </li><li>What if you designed your habits so that you automatically applied them? </li><li>The scope of this thinking tool is really quite broad.</li></ul>

14. Designer

<ul><li>How do you create knowledge inside someone else’s mind? </li><li>Most of us take for granted how amazing teaching actually is, and our own ability to learn from it. </li><li>To be effective, teachers need to have a model of how their pupil's minds see the world and pupils a game plan for changing it.</li><li>To succeed in most professions, you need to be able to make other people see the problems as you do. </li><li>This involves identifying what knowledge they lack and saying the right things </li><li>While this is an obvious skill for teachers, it also can benefit us by improving our ability to explain</li></ul>

15. Teacher

<ul><li>Anthropology is the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropology">study of cultures</a>. </li><li>Unlike economics, which tends to focus on mathematical models, or psychology, which tends to do a lot of careful experiments, </li><li>Anthropologists learn about cultures by man immersing in them.</li><li>How could you immerse yourself in groups to which you don’t belong? Groups of different nationalities or languages? Politics or professions? </li><li>How could you learn how those groups of people function, have them accept you as you live alongside them? these answers lie in anthropology </li></ul>

16. Anthropologist

<ul><li>Psychology has different thinking tools embedded both in its assumptions about human nature, as well as in its methods for discovering it.</li><li>On the subject of psychology itself, there are countless tools. </li><li>Which can help you understand people better</li><li>Psychologists, like all scientists, involves creating experiments. </li><li>However, unlike other scientists, your object of study is human beings, </li><li>This means you often can’t let them know what you’re trying to adjust.</li></ul>

17. Psychologist

Many critics go beyond telling you which books to read and which movies to watch. They build analysis, interpretation and discussion that goes well beyond the original work.The thinking tools involved are quite important, even for people who don’t analyze literature for a living. For starters, there is the ability to pay quite close attention to creative works. Experiencing something much more deeply than just a shallow consumer. Second, there’s the tool of being able to connect that knowledge to a web of other issues and ideas.

18. Critic

one of the philosophers powerful tools is being able to see the unexpected consequences of stretching an idea to its limits. This has two benefits.<ol><li>it can reveal flaws in the original idea, by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum">reductio ad absurdum</a>. </li><li>this can help you recognize the fundamental principles behind your vague intuitions of things. </li></ol>By exposing your ideas to stronger, hypothetical critiques, you can see the real mechanisms by which they work.

19. Philosopher

<ul><li>Money is the blood of a business. </li><li>Accounting is the work that watches how it flows around, checking to make sure it isn’t getting clogged up.</li><li>The idea of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_ratio">ratio analysis</a>. for instance, is the debt the company owes to the equity put in by the owners. Get too high, and there’s a greater risk of default. </li><li>This kind of analysis is useful to non-accounting domains. you could imagine tracking many other numbers and their ratios: output per hours worked, money earned per hour.</li><li>Organizing the data, keeping track of the details and seeing the patterns beneath the surface are all tools that can be used.</li></ul>

20. Accountant

<ul><li>Politics offers its own set of tools, politician may do a great job, and still get kicked out because of bad PR.</li><li>Therefore the thinking tools possessed by politicians are about calculating </li><li>Not only the effect of some action but also on how that action will be perceived. </li><li>Both by the voting populace, and one’s allies and enemies.</li><li>The thinking tools here mean that sometimes the right decision isn’t possible, </li><li>Simply because other people won’t see it as such, and you don’t have the power to convince them. </li><li>This may be frustrating, but it applies to many parts of reality we’d rather it didn’t.</li></ul>

21. Politician

<ul><li>Many people see stories as the linguistic embodiment of history.</li><li> We take what actually happened and weave it into some words so others can see it for themselves.</li><li>Unfortunately, people understand stories much better than realities. </li><li>So often you need to package up the histories you want to tell people in a way that they can interpret. </li><li>While this applies to writing novels or making movies. </li><li>Telling stories is a part of everyone’s life.</li><li>From “Why do you want to work at this job,” to, “Where do you see yourself in five years?” </li><li>These are all stories, and we need to understand their structures.</li></ul>

22. Novelist

<ul><li>A popular thinking tool for acting is called <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_acting">method acting</a>. </li><li>This technique involves trying to actually feel the emotions of the character you’re portraying, rather than just faking it.</li><li>This may seem to be a contradiction: how can you feel something you know is fake?</li><li>Changing your emotional state to get the results you want is a great tool used by actors. </li><li>Feeling insecure, but know you need confidence? </li><li>Why can’t you summon that up in yourself as if you’re playing a part? </li><li>But don’t fake it–feel it.</li></ul>

23. Actor

<ul><li>Tradespeople don’t get enough credit for having unique problem-solving tools and strategies. </li><li>Yet those professions often out-earn those with a college degree</li><li>The essence of plumbing, just like many other trades, </li><li>is to get your hands dirty and take something apart to see what’s broken. </li><li>To do this, you need a model of what’s in there—otherwise, you might get water spilling everywhere or a dangerous shock. </li><li>How many of us avoid understanding things because we’re afraid to get our hands dirty? </li><li>We don’t want to risk breaking something, so we never really understand how it works?</li></ul>

24. Plumber

<ul><li>Hacking is one of the most commonly misunderstood skills. </li><li>In practice, hacking is mostly about understanding that there is often a more complicated layer of instructions which a simpler layer is built on top. </li><li>The computer sits in hierarchies, so each level of abstraction simplifies and reduces the layer below</li><li>This thinking tool works for computers, but also other areas of life. </li><li>Remember: everything you see is usually a simplification of a deeper reality. </li><li>Which can mean that the underlying system may be broken in a way you wouldn’t naively expect.</li></ul>

25. Hacker

You're only as smart as your thinking tools. Here are twenty-five tools, drawn from different professions, you can apply to your most difficult challenges!

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Twenty-Five Useful Thinking Tools | Scott H Young

Failure isn't a necessary evil. In fact, it isn't evil at all. It is a necessary consequence of doing something new.

Is having right people with you a more important aspect, or having the right idea? According to Ed Catmull (The President and Co-Founder of Pixar Studios), having right people takes the edge. <ul><li>If you give a good idea to a mediocre team, they will screw it up. </li><li>If you give a mediocre idea to a brilliant team, they will either fix it or throw it away and come up with something better.</li><li>Getting the right people and the right chemistry is more important than getting the right idea.</li></ul><a href="https://fourminutebooks.com/how-google-works-summary/">Hire inspired people</a>, then give them good ideas. Never try to do it the other way around.

What's more important? People, or Ideas?

Not being surprised by failure when it happens, the people at Pixar acknowledge it up front. They greet it right at the door. By accepting that <a href="https://fourminutebooks.com/mistakes-were-made-but-not-by-me-summary/">mistakes are just part of the deal</a>, they can design their processes to be iterative, meaning they can weed out the mistakes they find with the next project and not repeat them again.At Pixar mistakes are never made by individuals, only by teams. When failure happens, the entire team is responsible.Failure-sharing is exactly that. When everyone feels safe to take risks do you have an environment where <a href="https://fourminutebooks.com/creative-confidence-summary/">everyone can have the courage to be creative</a>.

Risk Taking: Individual or A Team's Effort?

“It’s not the manager’s job to prevent risks. It’s the manager’s job to make it safe for others to take them.”

<ul><li>There’s one thing you should definitely hand over before you enter your building, and that’s boredom.</li><li>Let everyone design their own workspace to keep boredom out of your building.</li><li>Creativity is about embracing that people are different – that’s how it happens in the first place, so you should encourage your employees to show who they are by letting them design their own workspace.</li><li>Let everyone work according to their own working style, whether that’s <a href="https://fourminutebooks.com/remote-summary/">remote or in-house</a>, in the morning or at night, more alone or more in teams. Focus on the results, not the design.</li></ul>

Creativity, an antonym for boredom?

Practical exercises, tools and concepts to help you develop and enhance your creative thinking 

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Unlocking your Creative Potential

From a co-founder of Pixar Animation Studios—the Academy Award–winning studio behind Coco, Inside Out, and Toy Story—comes an incisive book about creativity in business and leadership for readers of Daniel Pink, Tom Peters, and Chip and Dan Heath. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Huffington Post • Financial Times • Success • Inc. • Library Journal Creativity, Inc. is a manual for anyone who strives for originality and the first-ever, all-access trip into the nerve center of Pixar Animation—into the meetings, postmortems, and “Braintrust” sessions where some of the most successful films in history are made. It is, at heart, a book about creativity—but it is also, as Pixar co-founder and president Ed Catmull writes, “an expression of the ideas that I believe make the best in us possible.” For nearly twenty years, Pixar has dominated the world of animation, producing such beloved films as the Toy Story trilogy, Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Up, WALL-E, and Inside Out, which have gone on to set box-office records and garner thirty Academy Awards. The joyousness of the storytelling, the inventive plots, the emotional authenticity: In some ways, Pixar movies are an object lesson in what creativity really is. Here, in this book, Catmull reveals the ideals and techniques that have made Pixar so widely admired—and so profitable. As a young man, Ed Catmull had a dream: to make the first computer-animated movie. He nurtured that dream as a Ph.D. student at the University of Utah, where many computer science pioneers got their start, and then forged a partnership with George Lucas that led, indirectly, to his co-founding Pixar in 1986. Nine years later, Toy Story was released, changing animation forever. The essential ingredient in that movie’s success—and in the thirteen movies that followed—was the unique environment that Catmull and his colleagues built at Pixar, based on leadership and management philosophies that protect the creative process and defy convention, such as: • Give a good idea to a mediocre team, and they will screw it up. But give a mediocre idea to a great team, and they will either fix it or come up with something better. • If you don’t strive to uncover what is unseen and understand its nature, you will be ill prepared to lead. • It’s not the manager’s job to prevent risks. It’s the manager’s job to make it safe for others to take them. • The cost of preventing errors is often far greater than the cost of fixing them. • A company’s communication structure should not mirror its organizational structure. Everybody should be able to talk to anybody.

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From a co-founder of Pixar Animation Studios—the Academy Award–winning studio behind Coco, Inside Out, and Toy Story—comes an incisive book about creativity in business and leadership for readers of Daniel Pink, Tom Peters, and Chip and Dan Heath. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Huffington Post • Financial Times • Success • Inc. • Library Journal Creativity, Inc. is a manual for anyone who strives for originality and the first-ever, all-access trip into the nerve center of Pixar Animation—into the meetings, postmortems, and “Braintrust” sessions where some of the most successful films in history are made. It is, at heart, a book about creativity—but it is also, as Pixar co-founder and president Ed Catmull writes, “an expression of the ideas that I believe make the best in us possible.” For nearly twenty years, Pixar has dominated the world of animation, producing such beloved films as the Toy Story trilogy, Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Up, WALL-E, and Inside Out, which have gone on to set box-office records and garner thirty Academy Awards. The joyousness of the storytelling, the inventive plots, the emotional authenticity: In some ways, Pixar movies are an object lesson in what creativity really is. Here, in this book, Catmull reveals the ideals and techniques that have made Pixar so widely admired—and so profitable. As a young man, Ed Catmull had a dream: to make the first computer-animated movie. He nurtured that dream as a Ph.D. student at the University of Utah, where many computer science pioneers got their start, and then forged a partnership with George Lucas that led, indirectly, to his co-founding Pixar in 1986. Nine years later, Toy Story was released, changing animation forever. The essential ingredient in that movie’s success—and in the thirteen movies that followed—was the unique environment that Catmull and his colleagues built at Pixar, based on leadership and management philosophies that protect the creative process and defy convention, such as: • Give a good idea to a mediocre team, and they will screw it up. But give a mediocre idea to a great team, and they will either fix it or come up with something better. • If you don’t strive to uncover what is unseen and understand its nature, you will be ill prepared to lead. • It’s not the manager’s job to prevent risks. It’s the manager’s job to make it safe for others to take them. • The cost of preventing errors is often far greater than the cost of fixing them. • A company’s communication structure should not mirror its organizational structure. Everybody should be able to talk to anybody.

Edwin Earl "Ed" Catmull, PhD is a computer scientist and current president of Walt Disney Animation Studios, DisneyToon Studios, and Pixar Animation Studios. As a computer scientist, Catmull has contributed to many important developments in computer graphics.

Ed Catmull

Amy Wallace was an American writer. She was the daughter of writers Irving Wallace and Sylvia Wallace and the sister of writer and populist historian David Wallechinsky.

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Creativity, Inc.

<ul><li>Time blocking is a time management technique.</li><li>This type of <a href="https://www.ntaskmanager.com/blog/top-time-tracking-software/">time tracking</a> requires that you divide your day into defined slots or chunks of time. </li><li>Each block of time is dedicated to completing a specific task </li><li>When you manage your time in this way you are ensuring your <a href="https://www.ntaskmanager.com/blog/gtd-getting-things-done-apps/">work gets complete</a>,</li><li> And ensures you are just doing one task at a time and not multitasking</li><li>This also means that you will not have to <a href="https://www.ntaskmanager.com/blog/best-focus-apps-to-keep-you-focussed-and-distraction-free/">decide what to focus</a> on.</li><li> You will not be making constant choices about spending your time but simply following a time blocked schedule.</li></ul>

What is Time Blocking?

<ul><li>This method of time management is designed for focus. </li><li>You are effectively guarding against distraction.</li><li>A <a href="https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2010/11/wandering-mind-not-a-happy-mind/">study</a> conducted in 2010 by Harvard psychologists, found that people spend 46.9% of their waking hours thinking about something other than what they are doing.</li><li>With such <a href="https://www.ntaskmanager.com/blog/best-time-management-apps/">time management</a>,</li><li> you don’t just know what you have to get done but also when you have to get it done.</li></ul>

How Does Time Blocking Work?

There are certain variations of this <a href="https://www.ntaskmanager.com/blog/quadrants-of-time-management-matrix/">time management method</a> that are worth considering.Some of the most common types include: day theming, task batching, and time boxing. Let’s go over each briefly.

Variations of Time Blocking

<ul><li>This type of time management is a great way for somebody who has multiple kinds of work to be done.</li><li><a href="https://www.bluekeyinc.com/blog/culture/the-power-of-day-theming-for-pm-productivity">Day theming works</a> by dedicating a day of the week to each responsibility a person has.</li><li>Dedicating a single day to a particular type of task allows you to create a reliable work pattern </li><li>Thus, you limit the <a href="https://www.ntaskmanager.com/blog/what-is-cognitive-bias/">cognitive load</a> of context switching.</li></ul>" A <a href="https://www.hcii.cmu.edu/news/event/2004/10/work-fragmentation-common-practice-paradox-it-support">study</a> found that most people average only 3 minutes on a task before they switch to something else."<ul><li>Moreover, this allows you to lessen your <a href="https://www.ntaskmanager.com/blog/decision-making-skills/">decision making fatigue</a> and lets you focus on the work of the day.</li></ul>

1. Day Theming

<ul><li><a href="https://memory.ai/timely-blog/task-batching">Task batching</a> is when you batch similar tasks together so you can do them all at once.</li><li>By focusing on like items together you can create a <a href="https://www.ntaskmanager.com/blog/best-workflow-management-software/">more concentrated workflow</a>, </li><li>give more focus to your work, </li><li>and minimize distractions thus allowing you to <a href="https://www.ntaskmanager.com/blog/how-to-be-more-productive-10-productivity-tips-to-stay-focused/">become more productive</a>.</li><li>Task batching is effective because it breaks the cycle of context switching and creates structure around chunks of time.</li><li>This allows you to commit to a particular task without constant interruption and distraction.</li></ul>

2. Task Batching

<ul><li>Time Boxing follows the idea of allocating a defined amount of time in advance to an activity</li><li> And then complete the activity within the time frame you defined.</li><li>The “time box” that you define ensures that you work efficiently </li><li>Because you only have a limited time to complete your task.</li><li>Timeboxing involves limiting the time you spend on the activity, and hense making you highly efficient </li></ul>

3. Time Boxing

<ul><li>Encourages you to Reflect on your Priorities</li><li>Promotes Focused Deep Work</li><li>Combats Perfectionism and Procrastination</li><li>Discourages Multitasking</li><li>It helps you Follow Through on Your Goals</li><li>You Become Aware of how you Spend your Time</li><li>It Becomes Easier to say no to certain things</li></ul>

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Interacting with people with same interests but from different professions, nationalities, and cultures gives you a broader scope of life. Networking is an opportunity to practice starting conversations, communicating clearly and learning about people around you. These interactions will increase your confidence, and you will no longer feel anxious about starting a conversation with strangers.Another undeniable <a href="https://thebdschool.com/benefits-of-networking-a-quick-list/">benefit of networking</a> is the impact on your business or career. Experts agree that success has a direct link to your networking skills. More connected individuals are more successful!

Why networking?

Well, in simple terms, networking is all about making long term connections or relations, in which both the both the sides are, or will be benefitted mutually. Networking can happen just anywhere. Whether you're in the market, in a group event, or even in the queue to order your morning coffee! In recent times, networking has been made easy like never before, because of the evolution of networking apps. (Although one flaw is that you may meet some undesired people)There are always networking opportunities all around for those who are intentional about creating networks.

Well, what exactly is networking?

Excellent Conversation skills take time to buildup.If meeting people physically seems out of reach, start using online services to meet random people and find some with same interests. That way, initiating the conversation would be easier. Complimenting someone’s outfit or accessories while waiting for your coffee, train, or service is all it takes to start a conversation. Also, there's no "One fit for all" thing in networking. Start to observe what is comfortable for you. When you have identified your best strategy and networking style, consider places and events to network.

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"In true sense, we have two minds, one that thinks, and one that feels."

Being self-aware simply means that you’re able to recognize and label your feelings. For example, when children learn to speak, they usually need to be given the vocabulary first, so if your son is angry because you’re not letting him have candy before dinner, he’ll know he feels bad, but can’t tell you what exactly it is, until you tell him that what he’s feeling is anger.Socrates said “know thyself”, so developing a keener understanding of our own nature  (self awareness) is the first and most important step on the way to Emotional Intelligence.

Self Awareness

An important part of the EQ equation is emotional self-regulation.For example, when you sit in your office and hear a sudden, loud bang, like the sound of an explosion, your emotional processing center will perceive it as a threat and put your body in alert mode. But when your rational brain double checks and sees there’s no actual threat there, it calms you down again, so you can get back on track to what you were doing.As an adult, being able to look at your emotions on a meta-level is crucial in choosing how to react to your feelings – or if you should react at all.

Self Regulation

IQ is usually what we think determines success. But Goleman’s research led him to believe that EQ, emotional intelligence, is just as, if not more important, to find happiness.For example, in the world of business and careers, students with higher levels of empathy seem to get better grades, even if their peers are just as smart. That’s because they can better manage their feelings.Your health also highly depends on your EQ, because the more you have of it, the better you are able to <a href="https://fourminutebooks.com/the-end-of-stress-summary/">mitigate stress</a>, which can prevent a lot, if not all, of the most prevalent diseases of our time.

Emotional Intelligence in your professional life

Here are two really cool exercises to increase your emotional intelligence:<ol><li>Mirror other people’s body language: This first exercise will not only help you connect better with the person across the table, it’ll also make you more emotionally self-aware. It’s one of those “fake it till you make it” scenarios, which help you build better habits.</li><li>Convince yourself that your failures result from things you can change: This second exercise helps you <a href="https://fourminutebooks.com/learned-optimism-summary/">become an optimist</a>. Optimistic people continue to try, because they believe their actions make a difference, and are thus more likely to succeed.</li></ol>

Two ways to boost your emotional intelligence

A set of sources that will help you recognize, understand and manage your emotions

Understand yourself and those around you.

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#1 BESTSELLER • The groundbreaking book that redefines what it means to be smart, with a new introduction by the author “A thoughtfully written, persuasive account explaining emotional intelligence and why it can be crucial.”—USA Today Everyone knows that high IQ is no guarantee of success, happiness, or virtue, but until Emotional Intelligence, we could only guess why. Daniel Goleman's brilliant report from the frontiers of psychology and neuroscience offers startling new insight into our “two minds”—the rational and the emotional—and how they together shape our destiny. Drawing on groundbreaking brain and behavioral research, Goleman shows the factors at work when people of high IQ flounder and those of modest IQ do surprisingly well. These factors, which include self-awareness, self-discipline, and empathy, add up to a different way of being smart—and they aren’t fixed at birth. Although shaped by childhood experiences, emotional intelligence can be nurtured and strengthened throughout our adulthood—with immediate benefits to our health, our relationships, and our work. The twenty-fifth-anniversary edition of Emotional Intelligence could not come at a better time—we spend so much of our time online, more and more jobs are becoming automated and digitized, and our children are picking up new technology faster than we ever imagined. With a new introduction from the author, the twenty-fifth-anniversary edition prepares readers, now more than ever, to reach their fullest potential and stand out from the pack with the help of EI.

#1 BESTSELLER • The groundbreaking book that redefines what it means to be smart, with a new introduction by the author “A thoughtfully written, persuasive account explaining emotional intelligence and why it can be crucial.”—USA Today Everyone knows that high IQ is no guarantee of success, happiness, or virtue, but until Emotional Intelligence, we could only guess why. Daniel Goleman's brilliant report from the frontiers of psychology and neuroscience offers startling new insight into our “two minds”—the rational and the emotional—and how they together shape our destiny. Drawing on groundbreaking brain and behavioral research, Goleman shows the factors at work when people of high IQ flounder and those of modest IQ do surprisingly well. These factors, which include self-awareness, self-discipline, and empathy, add up to a different way of being smart—and they aren’t fixed at birth. Although shaped by childhood experiences, emotional intelligence can be nurtured and strengthened throughout our adulthood—with immediate benefits to our health, our relationships, and our work.    The twenty-fifth-anniversary edition of Emotional Intelligence could not come at a better time—we spend so much of our time online, more and more jobs are becoming automated and digitized, and our children are picking up new technology faster than we ever imagined. With a new introduction from the author, the twenty-fifth-anniversary edition prepares readers, now more than ever, to reach their fullest potential and stand out from the pack with the help of EI.

Author of Emotional Intelligence and psychologist Daniel Goleman has transformed the way the world educates children, relates to family and friends, and conducts business. The Wall Street Journal ranked him one of the 10 most influential business thinkers. Goleman’s Emotional Intelligence was on The New York Times best sellers list for a year-and-a-half. Named one of the 25 "Most Influential Business Management Books" by TIME, it has been translated into 40 languages. The Harvard Business Review called emotional intelligence (EI) “a revolutionary, paradigm-shattering idea.”  Goleman’s new book, Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence, argues that attention — a fundamental mental ability for success — has come under siege.

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“Startup success is not a consequence of good genes or being in the right place at the right time. Startup success can be engineered by following the right process, which means it can be learned, which means it can be taught.”

According to Eric Ries, there are two main reasons for startup failures:<ul><li>Traditional management methods do not work for a highly uncertain startup </li><li>The second reason may seem completely opposite to the first one </li><li> seeing that traditional management approaches do not work, entrepreneurs let things go by themselves and are guided by the "just do it" principle. </li></ul>Even such a chaotic and unpredictable phenomenon as a startup (can) should be managed. And this is what we document in this stash

Why Do startups fail ??

<ul><li>Many people share the opinion that entrepreneurial success is a combination of perseverance, intelligence, a good product, and the luck of being in the right place at the right time.</li><li> Routine, small things, and boring details do not matter. </li><li> it is nothing more than just a myth, partly imposed by pop culture. </li></ul>It's exactly the boring little things that are critical to a startup's success.

What is a Lean Startup?

<ul><li>Entrepreneurs are everywhere. </li><li>Irrespective of the size of the venture if you guys are working on a product that solves a problem in a new and better way then you are entrepreneurs </li><li>Entrepreneurship is management. Startups need a new type of management that will handle the conditions of extreme uncertainty.</li><li>Confirmation by facts. A startup needs continuous learning through a scientific approach and empirical hypothesis testing.</li></ul>

Five Principles of the Lean Startup:

<ul><li>The cycle "build-measure-learn". First, create an MVP of the product, evaluate consumers' reaction, </li><li>And then decide whether to continue on the chosen course or change your direction.</li><li>Innovation Accounting. This is what is commonly referred to as dull detail. </li><li>But accounting for innovations is essential to improving startup performance. </li><li>Innovation Accounting is a system of criteria and indicators that help evaluate a startup's success (or failure).</li></ul>

Continuation of the above topic

<ul><li>Instead of making complex plans based on many assumptions,</li><li> you can make constant adjustments with a steering wheel called the Build-Measure-Learn feedback loop. </li><li>Startups are greatly analogous to driving a car to our office as we know the destination but we may change the routes according to our ease  </li></ul>

Startups are not rocket science they are like car rides 

<ul><li>As an entrepreneur, the core aim is to build a product or a solution to a burning problem </li><li>And even though the user experience matters a lot but mainly what matters is whether your product is solving the core itch of the user</li><li>And in every solution, there are a set of assumptions that we base our solution upon</li><li>So to test those key assumptions build an MVP and test it with the people who need it the most </li><li>Learning from their feedback and keep on improving the product or service </li><li>Which is a way better approach than directly building a great product that no one needs </li></ul>

How to determine what people need without wasting time and money

The feedback that a startup receives in its experiments can be qualitative (which product options they like and which they don't) or quantitative (how many customers use the product, the number of registered users).The Lean Startup concept is based on a Build-Measure-Learn feedback loop. The most important challenge of startup management is to strive to reduce the feedback cycle time. But all the elements of this cycle deserve equal attention.

How to go into practice?

<ul><li>For a startup, you need to start creating a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) as soon as possible. </li><li>MVP is a version of a product that allows you to start the Build-Measure-Learn cycle with minimal effort, spending as little development time as possible.</li><li>Such a crude product may be devoid of the options that will be most appreciated by customers in the future. </li><li>Still, at the same time, enough to be usable and understandable by first users.</li></ul>

Build #step-1

<ol><li>Video MVP {A video that explains your product or solution to measure traction}</li><li>The Concierge MVP {idea that when you’re just starting out you don’t need to be able to handle thousands of customers, you just need to make one customer happy} great way to validate your hypothesis</li><li>The Wizard of Oz MVP. In a Wizard of Oz MVP customers believe they are interacting with your technology product; however, the reality is that behind the scenes a human is doing the work</li><li>Landing Page MVP: make a landing page with an explanation of your solution if people are showing interest and interacting its a good sign </li></ol>

Types of MVP

<ul><li>"Measure" means determining whether the efforts to create a product are producing the desired results. </li><li>And this is the key difference between Lean Startup valuation and standard methods, where deadlines and budget utilization are assessed, </li><li>but it may not be considered that the startup has created a useless product. </li><li>The primary assessment method in a Lean startup is innovation accounting.</li><li>This is a quantitative approach that allows us to find out how successful our attempts to trigger the growth mechanism are. It also helps identify intermediate learning outcomes.</li></ul>

Measure #step-2

<ul><li>It means to figure out whether the chose path lead to success or we need to pivot</li><li>When an entrepreneur sees that the chosen path does not lead to success, </li><li>he must be ready to find a new strategic hypothesis and stop spending money on following the unnecessary direction.</li></ul>

Learn #step-3

<ul><li>Genchi Genbutsu, which is translated as "go and see." This principle is guided, in particular, in Toyotа. </li><li>A manager responsible for the development of the Sienna minivan travelled around all the US states and talked with families, </li><li>finding out which minivan Americans want to see and taking into account their children's opinion, which had a positive effect on the sales of this car brand.</li><li>There are always people behind the numbers. </li><li>You need to get knowledge first-hand, literally going out into the street. </li></ul>

Genchi Genbutsu

<ul><li>It is not uncommon for entrepreneurs to first create a product and then find out consumers' reactions. But the point is to do the opposite.</li><li>The goal of creating a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) is to start learning and testing in practice as soon as possible. </li><li>An MVP is needed to test the hypotheses of entrepreneurs. It should not be perfect. It should be quality enough to attract the first customers, but no more.</li></ul>

Do what scares perfectionists

<ul><li>As we have already mentioned, Innovation accounting is a systematic approach to figuring out if you are making progress and getting evidence from the facts. </li><li>It is an alternative to the traditional reporting system for companies operating in conditions of uncertainty. </li><li>This is a new type of reporting system that allows you to assess whether changes lead to improvements or not. </li><li>Keeping track of innovation allows startup founders to make sure they are actually getting a business going.</li><li>You need to start by turning leaps of faith into a working financial model.</li></ul>

Innovation accounting

1. Create MVP and get feedback to understand the real state.2. Try to bring metrics closer to ideal ones. It can take a lot of trying.3. Decide whether to move in the same direction or make a pivot.If you are close to the ideal metrics, you need to move in the same direction.

Three stages of innovation accounting:

<ul><li>One of the most important analysis tools for a startup is Cohort analysis.</li><li>It may sound complicated, but it is based on one simple premise. </li><li>Rather than looking at aggregate metrics such as total income and total customers, </li><li>We should measure the metrics separately for each consumer group that interacts with the product independently of the rest of the groups. Each such group is called a cohort.</li><li>For the techies, we are talking about A/B testing </li></ul>

Cohort analysis

<ul><li>If nobody uses your product, then optimization or marketing will make no sense. </li><li>A startup must be very clear about making clear and well-founded predictions to prove that a good business can be built with the product. </li><li>The necessary indicators are often replaced by those that look nicer but are useless ("vanity metrics"). </li><li>These metrics usually include ad views, page visits, app installs, and more.</li><li> Real metrics should prove the value of your project, that it really solves user problems.</li></ul>

Vanity metrics

1. Effective indicators. show what needs to be done to get the results you want. They help to learn from the results of their actions. 2. Simplicity of presentation. Reports should be presented simply and clearly. It is worth remembering indicators are the results of people's work. 3. Data Verification and accountability.

Key aspects of Innovation Accounting

<ul><li>When it becomes clear that the initially chosen path will not lead to success, </li><li>the entrepreneur is required to make a pivot - to radically change the strategy, create and test a new hypothesis about the product.</li><li>The pivot's essence is to take into account everything that you have learned earlier, but at the same time radically change the strategy to get even more grounded knowledge.</li><li>It is a combination of the scientific method of hypothesis testing and vision, intuition, and creativity.</li></ul>

When should you make a pivot?

<ul><li>if a startup has a million dollars in the bank and spends $100k per month, its runway is 10 months. </li><li>Based on this definition, the "runway" can be extended in two ways: by reducing costs or raising additional funding.</li><li>However, Eric Ries suggests defining the runway in a different way - through the number of pivots that a startup can make. </li><li>Then, to extend it, you need to learn how to make turns as quickly as possible. </li><li>The need to make a pivot is indicated by a decrease in the effectiveness of product experiments.</li></ul>

Startup runway

Small batch approachThe Lean Startup methodology is based on a small batch approach, borrowed from the concept of lean manufacturing.<ul><li>When working in small batches, the finished product is produced every few seconds. </li><li>When working in large batches, all the finished goods are produced simultaneously, at the very end. </li><li>Imagine what this means when it comes to hours, days, weeks. </li><li>What if a customer suddenly decides they don't need a product? </li><li>Would we like to know about this earlier? In the small batches approach, this risk is minimized.</li></ul>

How to get traction?

“The engine of growth is the mechanism that startups use to achieve sustainable growth. I use the word sustainable to exclude all one-time activities that generate a surge of customers but have no long-term impact, such as a single advertisement or a publicity stunt that might be used to jump-start growth but could not sustain that growth for the long term.”

3 Engines of growth 

<ul><li>The rules that govern sticky growth are pretty simple: if the acquisition rate exceeds the loss rate, then the popularity of the product rises. Therefore, companies need to track consumer losses.</li></ul>

1. The sticky engine of growth

Outlines a revisionist approach to management while arguing against common perceptions about the inevitability of startup failures, explaining the importance of providing genuinely needed products and services as well as organizing a business that can adapt to continuous customer feedback.

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