Life is a group project, but no one read the brief

Hey there.

If you received this email, I pray that you receive all the good things in life - for your health, career, and relationship.

If you don’t.. tough luck (jk).

Anyways, welcome to LessonsLearned, a newsletter that I first created a year ago to share the candid lessons in life from my own personal experience. If you are wondering where the other issues of this newsletter are located, they are well buried in the vault of Susbtack.

Yeap. I moved away from Substack to Beehiiv because I personally feel there are more support for new creators like me on this platform. It’s a personal preference, okay? I’m not inferring that one is better than the other!

So if you are new, let me address a few things:

1. What is LessonsLearned? It’s a newsletter where I share life’s little aha moments, oh no realisations, and the occasional why am I like this reflection. Think of it like catching up with your cinggu (friend in Korean) who overshares but somehow makes you feel better about your own chaos.

2. How often will I post? Hehehe this is a tough question. When I first started writing on Substack, I vowed to consistently publish one issue a week. And then things got busy, I had to deprioritise this newsletter, and eventually changed it to once every month. And then BOOM! My daughter was born, and I had to drop everything on my hands and prioritise her. To start us off with a good start, I’ll aim to share something with you once a week.

3. When does each issue come out? Because this isn’t one of those serious, tech, science, or politics newsletter, I will publish every learning on the weekends. And I promise that each issue is also gonna be short! Perhaps it’ll only take you a max of 3 minutes to read the whole thing. So don’t make excuses and always open my email, okay?!

Alright here goes the first lesson.

Over the past 3 months, my wife and I have been practising our teamwork rigorously by making sure the little one gets the best treatment she deserves. And, you know what?

Life’s basically a group project. Everyone’s winging it, pretending they know what’s going on, and the person who actually read the instructions is silently judging the rest of us. (You know who you are.)

There’s the “ideas guy” who talks a big game but disappears when the real work starts. The overachiever who rewrites everything at 2 a.m. because ‘it’s fine, I’ll just do it myself.’ And, of course, the free-rider who shows up at the end, invisibly pretending like they contributed.

You know what’s funny though? Sometimes you (me) are the free-rider. Other times, you’re the one pulling the entire together with caffeine and spite.

But somehow, it all mostly works out. Not perfectly. Not as planned. But just enough to hit submit and move on. And that’s the mode that my wife and I are in over the past 3+ months.

So if life feels messy and uncoordinated right now, remember that no one’s grading this project.

Show up.

Do your part.

And laugh when things inevitably go sideways.

Talk soon,

Krish

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