Apurva Chaudhary

  • Unoriginal ideas

    Ever since I read Paul Graham’s essay on how to come up with ideas, I can’t stop myself coming up with 5-6 ideas a week. Obviously not all ideas are worth working on. The process I follow is: I have a board named personal on Trello where I note down everything random that comes to…

  • Who can solve “payments to friends”? Yesterday I visted Relish restaurant in Churchgate with my French classmates. The chocolate fondu is to die for! Don’t miss the Cheese Nachos. Too unhealthy but heaven.  This is post is not about my unhealthy indulgence in food but about making payments when you go out with your friends.…

  • What is luck? Can you make your own luck?

    Over the last three months, I met two gentlemen, one of whom believed he’s incredibly lucky and the other is dejected with his life and believes he has no (good) luck what-so-ever. Typically, I’m the kind of person who doesn’t believe in luck, good or bad. I’m talking about what people believe is random luck…

  • Life lessons

    I discovered Rotaract pretty late in my life. The fact that it’s invite-only in some places doesn’t help the fact either. I am glad that I am a part of it for many reasons. Rotaract is supposed to shape you into a leader and it provides many opportunities to do so.  This post is not…

  • Was re-reading Tim Ferris’ 4-hour work week on Blinkist (I love this app) where I highlighted “Also, the people willing to pay a higher price are often those who are the least likely to cause trouble, complain or return your products. If they buy premium, they probably don’t have to watch every penny, so even…