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The Man Behind Shopee and Garena Free Fire - Forrest Li Life

Do you know what’s the richest/biggest company in Singapore today!? Who is Forrest Li!? He is the founder of Garena Free Fire, Call of Duty Mobile, and Shoppe which is all under Sea

Personal

Create Luck Using This Superpower

Consistency is a superpower.

Personal

Is YouTube Shorts the New TikTok?

YouTube has long been the go to place for video content on the internet. While there have been attempts by other companies to take over the throne, they have been unsuccessful.

Lifeadvice

The Speaking Horse

In the early 1900s, a horse called “Clever Hans” became a German celebrity for being able to understand the German language and do math.

Booknotes

The Everything Store by Brad Stone

The Everything Store is a book about the founding of Amazon which is the world’s biggest online store founded by Jeff Bezos who is now also the world’s richest man with a net

Booknotes

Total Recall by Arnold Schwarzenegger

Arnold Schwarzenegger is one of the most impressive and fascinating people I have read about. He came to the United States of America from Austria and then become the greatest bodybuilder of all

Tech

Take Notes from Podcasts with Airr Audio

One of the coolest apps that I have discovered this year is the Airr Audio podcast app. It is so good that I switched from the amazing feature rich Pocketcast app. It’s main

Lifeadvice

Top Lessons from "Inside Bill's Brain" Documentry

Bill Gates is one of the most fascinating people on the world. He founded Microsoft to revolutionize the way people think and interact with technology making him the richest man on the planet.

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Thinking about Change

I used to feel that change was bad. I used to look back and old pictures, videos and notes and think “Oh wow that was cringe. I wish I wasn’t like that a

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The Insane Powers of Cold Email

Cold Emails are thoroughly underrated for meeting people on the internet and there is practically no downside to it. ✉️

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Special Exceptions

I have been reading the book How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie and binge watching lecture videos and interviews about Cliff Weitzman who is a CEO of a company

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The Pilot, Plane and Engineer

This post was originally published in my email newsletter, Sunday Stories.

Productivity

Speechify

Have you ever wanted to read something but experienced problems with reading or did not have the time in your day to read?

Booknotes

Becoming by Michelle Obama

Becoming is the memoir of Michelle Obama, the First African American First Lady of the United States of America.

Booknotes

The Ride of a Lifetime by Bob Iger

The Ride of a Lifetime is a memoir by the CEO of Disney, Bob Iger. I listened to this at 3x speed on Libby, learned many lessons and got a tiny glimpse into

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Think Big by Donald Trump

The main idea that Donald J Trump shares in this book is to be confident and to not be scared even if you are sure that you are going to fail.

Tech

How I quit watching YouTube

I realised something this week that was really weird. I had quit watching youtube videos and I did not even realise it.

Tech

sharvesh.com 2.0

For the first time, I am writing this blog post in my local note-taking app. I used to use wordpress to write my blogs and “design” my site using cool free themes that

Booknotes

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality by Eliezer Yudkowsky

Everyone loves Harry Potter but sometimes you think the decisions that Harry makes are weird and irrational. There’s where Harry Potter and the methods of rationality comes in. This is a Harry Potter

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Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell

I have seen Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell being quoted many times for its 10,000 hour rule to master a skill and I was intrigued. The Wikipedia description convinced me further. “In Outliers, Gladwell

Tech

Tech Independence

This post was inspired by Derek Sivers. Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, Samsung. What do they all have in common? They all have your data.

Productivity

My Journey with Roam Research

Every other month, Tech Twitter finds a brand new note-taking application that is clearly better than all others. However, about once a year there is a king of Note-Taking applications. Last year it

Personal

I started an Email Newsletter

I have recently started my weekly email newsletter called “Sunday Stories” which you can sign up for and view previous issues here.

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Journal

Nowadays everyone interested in productivity is looking for the next great note-taking app. Forget building a second brain in Notion or personal knowledge management system in Evernote. Roam Research is the cool kid

Booknotes

Timeriders Series by Alex Scarrow

Rating: 5/5 Recommendation: READ ALL NINE BOOKS Intro Wow. Just wow. I finished reading this book half an hour ago and I have been day dreaming since. It is that weird feeling you

Personal

Pandemic Prose III

Yes, I know it has only been a few days since the previous one but here I am again. I will now be structuring these newsletter-esque posts due to popular demand. By that

Personal

Home Screens

I have fallen into the world of iPhone home screen set-ups. Yes, this is different from my usual posts because I have more free time due to the current lockdown for Covid-19. I

Personal

Pandemic Prose II

We are living in history now. I have always wondered how it would feel like to live during a major historical event. I remember binge reading books about the middle-ages, plague and world

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Friction

No this isn’t primary school and we are not learning about the magic that happens when you rub your hands together (It still is pretty cool though). This article is about actual friction

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Pandemic Prose I

Well Covid-19 has been spreading at a much faster rate now. Although numbers are irrelevant due to the limitations of testing kits, countries hiding numbers, number of mild carriers, number of asymptomatic and

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Hedonic Treadmill

You have probably had a moment in your life where you wanted to buy something that would without a doubt change your life for the better and that would allow you to be

Lifeadvice

Reading Books

Most of the people you know probably used to read tons of books when they were around a decade old, devouring books like Harry Potter, Geronimo Stilton or some other fiction book.

Personal

Magic

This blog post is a bit different from the usual insanely original insightful productivity, life advice blog that I publish. I decided to write about a niche that I decided to dwell into

Booknotes

Anything You Want by Derek Sivers

Thoughts about the book So far when I read books about a certain company or about how to start a business, it starts off as a story of a brilliant idea by the

Lifeadvice

The One Percent Rule

The One Percent Rule is something that I learnt when reading the book Atomic Habits by author James Clear. The One Percent Rule is when you start implementing healthy habits in your life

Productivity

Compression Vs Content

Compression vs Context is something that I stumbled upon when reading a Praxis Blog Post about Progressive Summarization.

Creative

Content Consumption

The idea for this blog post came from the realization that I like most other people consume a lot of content daily. I listen to audiobooks and podcasts, watch YouTube videos and documentaries,

Lifeadvice

Minimalism

Minimalism. The Disciplined Pursuit of Less. Less is More. The Vital Few VS The Trivial Many. Minimalism is a topic that is trending nowadays on the internet with many people showing their total

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Hack Your Habits

What are Habits? According to Google, a habit is a routine of behavior that is repeated regularly and tends to occur subconsciously. There have been many books written extensively about this topic.

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The Stories We Tell Ourselves

I recently started reading Happy by Derren Brown which explores the idea of being happy in today’s society. The book starts off with the concept that we are each the product of the

Lifeadvice

You are not Busy

“I did not have time to do my homework” is one excuse that teachers would have heard multiple times throughout their career or you may have even used during school. However, when you

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Deal with Setbacks

Imagine you are the person who is known for your academic achievements and you do poorly for your exam… How do you deal with this…

Productivity

The Distraction Free iPhone

I first discovered the Distraction Free iPhone through the book Make Time by Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky through the Bookworm Podcast by Joe and Mike.

Booknotes

Make Time by Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky

Make Time is another one of those epic productivity books like Getting Things Done by David Allen or Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport.

Life Advice

The Parable of the Mexican Fisherman and the American Banker

Today, I would like to share a parable ( a simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson ) that I first found out about in The 4-Hour Workweek which is

Booknotes

Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport

Have you ever realised that our mobile phones are like slotmachines in our pockets. The moment you open your phone, all your apps are inviting you to click on them due to the

Productivity

The Value of Delight

I recently stumbled upon Ali Abdaal’s newsletter where he wrote about a concept named the ‘Value of Delight’.

Personal

Why I decided to start a Blog

Hey friends, Welcome to my new blog. My name is the Sharvenium and I will be writing blogs at least once a week from today to share epic ideas. Having a website where

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