Shirisha Nagendran
I write Not a Tech Wizard, Just a Coach, a monthly newsletter for coaches who are tired of duct-taping their backend systems or over-relying on corporate clients. It’s part tech tips, part workflow sanity, and part useless fun fact — because we all need a breather.I also run a private coaching practice for spoonies, helping them chase saner goals at their own pace, with energy and self-trust at the center.
🌀 The Middle Slump Vs The Middle Way
Hello Friends, Often we attribute certain traits to character deficits. For instance, many of my clients think that there is something grievously wrong with them because they lose their motivation when working towards a goal or on a project, a few weeks after they’ve started. They often jump to the conclusion that their inconsistency reflects some deep flaw, not realising how universal this pattern is. This is a challenge that is all too familiar in my own life. I’ve started many things and...
🌀 Deadline Brain vs Someday Brain
Hello Friends, Last week’s theme in my coaching sessions was, “When there’s a deadline, I can pull it off. I work well under pressure. But when a task has no deadline, I procrastinate.” Yep. Agree. Many of my clients are really good at putting out fires and dealing with crises. If something needs to be handled now, they do it. They are used to the adrenaline rush before a deadline, the surge of energy that helps them get things done. But when that rush isn’t there in the form of a deadline or...
🌀Comfort Vs Comparison
Hello Friends, Last week’s recurrent dialogue in my coaching sessions was, “I am comfortable where I am, I should be okay with it, but I am not.” Discomfort is slowly and steadily brewing under the apparently comfortable life and career that my clients have on the surface. They earn well, they are respected in their roles, work in their dream companies and have steady personal lives. There is no obvious major crisis in their lives, but they are restless and wonder if they are too comfortable....
🌀Procrastination Vs Initiation
Hello Friends, After reading too many articles about how AI has lowered the barriers to writing code, I decided to do a small coding project. The little experiment was born out of a frustrating hour spent on Amazon looking for visual timers. At the end of the hour, disappointed that most timers were either too expensive or poorly rated for reliability, I figured this would be a nice little AI-assisted coding project. I powered up ChatGPT and asked it to give me instructions on how to create...
🌀Focus Vs Perspective
Hello Friends, My last week’s edition had some grammatical errors – some embarrassing ones. I’ve paused automatically turning to AI for grammar checks, and I’ve been manually editing my newsletters. I was intrigued when my friend told me in her kindest tone that there were a few grammatical errors in the last edition. I was embarrassed and also curious. I read the edition a few times and changed the flow and structure multiple times, but didn’t notice the glaring errors before hitting the...
🌀Pivot or Persevere
Hello Friends, My friend has various social media apps installed on her phone. We’ve been noticing a pattern after we have a phone conversation (on the regular phone app, not the Whatsapp call or anything else). We speak on a range of topics, and once we hang up, she sends me a screenshot on Facebook, and Instagram, where she gets an ad advertising a course on a subject we’ve spoken out or memes pertaining to the exact words or topics discussed. We’ve noticed this a number of times. This is...
🌀Feast and Famine
Hello Friends, I’m experimenting with a new format today, and let me know if this makes a difference to your reading experience. It’s been a week since I got back from visiting my nephew, and my routine is still struggling to snap back in place. I reckon there must be a yet undiscovered concept of ‘routine lag’ akin to ‘jet lag’, whereby routines take time to snap back in place after a long holiday, break, travel or intense projects. The release of ChatGPT to the world, coincided with...
🌀🌱Welcome to the September Edition of Not a Tech Wizard, Just a Coach
Welcome to the September Edition of Not a Tech Wizard, Just a Coach If you're here, you probably wear many hats: coach, trainer, facilitator, psychologist, entrepreneur, admin, and, on occasion, reluctant tech troubleshooter. This is your monthly, semi-comprehensive guide to using tech in your coaching practice, minus the overwhelming jargon. My goal? To help you discover and implement tools that make your coaching practice smoother, smarter, and more efficient. I realised formatting wasn’t...
🌀🌱Welcome to the August Edition of Not a Tech Wizard, Just a Coach
Unsubscribe Would you prefer to receive insights like these weekly in smaller doses, or do you like our current big monthly edition? Yes, send me weekly bites Nah, monthly is better If you're here, you probably wear many hats: coach, trainer, facilitator, psychologist, entrepreneur, admin, and, on occasion, reluctant tech troubleshooter. This is your monthly, semi-comprehensive guide to using tech in your coaching practice, minus the overwhelming jargon. My goal? To help you discover and...
🌀🌱Welcome to the July Edition of Not a Tech Wizard, Just a Coach
If you're here, you probably wear many hats—coach, trainer, facilitator, psychologist, entrepreneur, admin, and, on occasion, reluctant tech troubleshooter. This is your monthly, semi-comprehensive guide to using tech in your coaching practice, minus the overwhelming jargon. My goal is to help you discover and implement tools that make your coaching practice smoother, smarter, and more efficient. To my surprise (and delight!), this little newsletter experiment has taken off. If you’ve found...
I write Not a Tech Wizard, Just a Coach, a monthly newsletter for coaches who are tired of duct-taping their backend systems or over-relying on corporate clients. It’s part tech tips, part workflow sanity, and part useless fun fact — because we all need a breather.I also run a private coaching practice for spoonies, helping them chase saner goals at their own pace, with energy and self-trust at the center.