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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Last week, I asked a question on Instagram. And you had a clear answer for it.If you missed it, here’s what I did. I wrote a story about doing unimportant things for 15 years to get to where I am today, and even though I thought those years were wasted, how they weren’t. (Yes, this one.) Then I ran a poll on...
Today, I took on a quite unexpected challenge, on a whim: a ‘Digital Detox’ of sorts.After coming across Jason Stirman’s Beautility, My Ultimate iPhone Setup on my Twitter feed this evening I felt the sudden urge to go all in. Notification overload has always bugged me, but I never got around to doing anything about...
For 15 long years I dabbled in many things I ended up wanting nothing to do with. Now that I look back, those years were more valuable than I give them credit for.Of course, I’m talking about school. And if you’re Sri Lankan, you’d know exactly what I mean. In Grade 10, as an elective subject, I took French, because...
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. If you are, or have been, a marketer you’ve probably heard these four words a million times: Attract, Convert, Close,...
And I have news for you. I’m going to write to you more often, a newsletter of sorts.I did this with a friend once: every Friday, I’d send him an email that contained 5 things that piqued my curiosity during the week that had passed. This list contained videos I had seen, blog posts I had read, books I had picked up...
Welcome to my Monkey MindMy journaling habit never really took off, but it has produced some indecisive and random strings of thought that found their way to the Cloud. Having chanced upon them this morning I found myself craving to go back to journaling again. Whether I would is a question for tomorrow’s dawn to...
Documenting my startup journey This 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. When we launched Bear Appeal, we were mostly trying to scratch our own itch. We couldn’t find a reliable retailer that sold...
Documenting my startup journey This 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. It’s been a little more than one-hundred days since we launched Bear Appeal. What started with Black, Navy Blue and Grey...
I’ve been blogging since 2014. I haven’t had my ‘big break’ yet — and for good reason.In 2014 I was a 20-year-old, confused, useless kid. I had not done well in my final exams at school, and had consequently lost the opportunity to study in a government university. (In Sri Lanka, this earns you the distinction...
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’ve been consistently asked one question over the past several months. My then coworkers, my parents, my friends, and just...
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