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How to scale a one-person business

If you're running a one-person business and need help scaling it, here's how you do it. I DID EVERYTHING when I started my first e-commerce business…

May 29 •

Nishan De Silva

April 2023

I moved to Canada (Part 2)

(Read part one of the series here.) I met a Sri Lankan at the Vancouver airport. Asela (pseudonym) was on our flight. He was planning to join my wife's…

Apr 24 •

Nishan De Silva

How to blow your own horn

I'm terrified of posting something on social media. That's how it has been as long as I can remember. Even though I had a Facebook account for a while…

Apr 4 •

Nishan De Silva

March 2023

I moved to Canada (Part 1)

There was no one to pick us up from the Vancouver airport. It was raining, and although we wore coats, the cold was unbearable. It's been 28 hours since…

Mar 27 •

Nishan De Silva

I used to work in a library

From 2012 to 2014, I worked as a customer service officer at the British Council Library. It was mostly on weekends as part-time because I was doing a…

Mar 13 •

Nishan De Silva

February 2023

Memory dividends

My wife and I fought a lot about my photo habit (or lack thereof). Whenever we went out or met friends, she wanted to take so many photos. I was the…

Feb 26 •

Nishan De Silva

Admit it. We don't know shit about most things and are barely informed to give an opinion about something. But whenever someone poses a question on…

Feb 19 •

Nishan De Silva

You don't have to be world-class

Most of us won't be the next Tiger Woods or Michael Jackson. Or Ernest Hemingway or Oprah, for that matter. And that's OK. Here's the thing. Being…

Feb 12 •

Nishan De Silva

The difference between a "like" and a "heart"

Don't I look sexy in this photo? Time to share it on Facebook. Open Google photos and click edit. Increase brightness but not too much. Looking good…

Feb 5 •

Nishan De Silva

January 2023

Why don't we do things on time?

"I'll be there within 2 minutes." It takes 30 minutes to get there! "Sure. Give me an hour and I'll send the report." You send the report after 2 days…

Jan 29 •

Nishan De Silva

We moved to a new house in 2004. The ground floor is my dad's workshop. Being the self-learned engineer he is, my dad decided to fix the roller door. He…

Jan 20 •

Nishan De Silva

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