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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We launched a podcast!I have been an avid consumer of podcasts for the longest time. So has been my friend Himal. After a chance discussion about this listening habit of ours, Himal reached out to me and asked if I’d like to join him in launching our own podcast. I jumped at the opportunity. A couple more days, a...
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. As a completely bootstrapped business, we’ve never had a huge budget to invest in fancy marketing campaigns and promotions....
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. You anticipate a lot of things when you start a business. Getting through the red tape, finding reliable suppliers, finding...
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. Big Discounts. Flash Sales. Buy-One-Get-One-Free’s. That’s a list of things we dislike at Bear Appeal. The reason is simple:...
On meditation and purposeWhen I started meditating back in October last year, I knew why I wanted to do it. I had a goal. A purpose. A North Star to keep me on track, and to convince myself that taking 10–20 minutes a day for meditation was not going to be a waste of time. This is what I wrote about that goal: My...
Ignorance truly is bliss. Just not in the way you think.Ignorance ˈɪɡn(ə)r(ə)ns/ noun lack of knowledge or information. 20 Billion kilometres away from the sun, a little beyond the vicinity of our estranged cousin Pluto, a lone spacecraft flies in to the depths of the universe. Closely followed by its twin, an...
No one is self-made. To call one that is a blatant dismissal of the work of many around them.The word ‘self-made’ is a misnomer. I don’t think self-made billionaires (or any self-made success stories for that matter) exist. I don’t think anyone ever makes it on their own. It can’t be possible. While you go through...
An easy, almost effortless way to give backI’m a huge fan of crowdsourcing. I try to be involved in crowdsourcing projects whenever time permits. I contribute to Wikipedia, Google Translate and Facebook Translate regularly, but the platform I’m most active on is Google Maps. Google Maps has this amazing program...
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. We recently applied to trademark Bear Appeal, and I thought I should share some specifics for the benefit of anyone who’s...
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. Just before the Avurudu holidays here in Sri Lanka, Pavithra and I spent two days delivering Bear Appeal orders by hand...
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