Josh Writes

Small boy with big dreams.

  • Singapore’s frictionless system

    Singapore’s frictionless system

    When you arrive in a new country, drained and tired, immigration feels like a hassle. With long queues and sluggish systems, it would be a miracle to move through immigration easily. Singapore integrated this miracle into its very systems. When we arrived, immigration merely presented us with sleek e-counters, with no immigration officers in sight.…

  • The 4 lessons I did not expect to learn at YTS+

    The 4 lessons I did not expect to learn at YTS+

    I still remember it clearly. A month back, my brother and I were huddled around my father’s laptop. Three options glowed back: “Robotics in Action”, “Data Science, Economics and Business” and “Biology Beyond Medicine”. These were the options offered by Plaksha University for their YTS+ Summer Camp. Promising hands-on, interactive learning in all these fields.…

  • How I used AI to learn coding and make my Portfolio Website

    Learning is a rather boring and mentally-draining task. Especially, when we don’t know exactly how to learn. And now with the dawn of Artificial Intelligence such as ChatGPT, we now have an easy way to avoid this weight of learning. However, more often than not, rather than using AI as a tool to aid our…

  • What I learnt by coding my portfolio website

    What I learnt by coding my portfolio website

    Recently, I decided to put into practice the things I have learnt in Coursera. After giving it some thought, I decided that making a Portfolio website would be the best. It makes sense to make this website first, a website to show my skills and document my my achievements to come. The Idea When I…

  • How I practiced structuring my time through Homeschooling.

    How I practiced structuring my time through Homeschooling.

    In my recent blog, I wrote about my experience in homeschooling, and what I learned in these 4 years of learning this way. One of the skills I wrote down that I acquired through my experience was time-management. Time management itself is a very useful skill to have. I accomplish more on those days that…

  • What we have learnt from 4 years of homeschooling.

    Four years ago, we as a family chose to make a decision, that would shape our education and future––for better or for worse. We decided to take the road less traveled, an uncertain path of homeschooling. To give you some context, it was 2021, and schools were forced to move online because of Covid-19. Because…