Thamara Kandabada
Thamara Kandabada
I’m Thamara, furniture-peddler by day and wearer-of-many-hats by night. I like to watch films, enjoy live music, tinker with this website, play guitar, and run in my free time. I'm currently based in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
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Documenting my startup journeyThis is one in a series of posts where I document my startup journey. If you just landed here, go to this link and you’ll find all the other posts in the series. There’s one thing I have had to get better at over the course of the last 18 months: apologizing. I’ve had to apologize for...
Work hard, play easyThis was supposed to be a reply to a tweet. It isn’t one now. It is rather a carefully thought out answer to my own doubts about work ethic. First, the premise. As the new year (2019) dawned, Sri Lankans discovered, to their dismay (and borderline outrage in some cases) that some of our public...
In 2019, I want to read more. I tweaked my iPhone setup for exactly that.Things have been going pretty well since my last effort to declutter my iPhone’s home screen. I have been using my phone less, and thanks to the absence of notifications, I’ve successfully avoided unnecessary distractions. More than a year...
Getting off the digital bandwagon, slowlyI quit Twitter, Instagram and Facebook today. I just thought I would, for no particular reason, and then I did. I have considered doing this before. Several times, to be honest. But I didn’t go all the way, until now. I’ve found the platforms incredibly useful, of course, and...
A short review of Yudhanjaya Wijeratne’s NumbercasteThis review contains Spoilers. Sod off and read the book first if you can’t stand any. I enjoyed reading this book quite a bit. I have been a fan of the author’s work for some time now, mostly because I followed his blog religiously for an year or so. I’ve had the...
Reflections on 2018I’m writing this on the phone as I pace around in my room. I never do that (not the pacing, but the writing-on-the-phone) but I’m feeling rather comfortable today. There’s only a few more hours left in this year. For me, as it may have been for some of you, it flew by. That is not to say I didn’t...
From mindless scrolling to mindful writingThis is a full excerpt from an entry I made in my journal this morning. (I use Day One, if you’re curious.) I’m starting a new journal today. It will serve one purpose, and one purpose only.Every time I feel like reaching for my phone and browsing mindlessly through social...
Documenting my startup journeyThis is one in a series of posts where I document my startup journey. If you just landed here, go to this link and you’ll find all the other posts in the series. I discovered Derren Brown’s work fairly recently. I had seen some references to his magical escapades once or twice, but as...
And do nothing.I’m a surprisingly happy person. More often than not the surprise is my own, and even as I write this now I’m blown away, in the most pleasant way imaginable, by this realization. To the best of my recollection, I have never been happier in the 24 unremarkable years I’ve spent on this Earth. I have on...
How ‘The Bad Take’ gets madeIt’s been a little more than 3 weeks since we started our podcast. We’ve published 5 episodes so far, and they have been well received, for the most part. Now is a good time for an update on what’s going on behind the scenes. I like to document the things I do, privately in my journal,...
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