After a few months, I am out, meeting friends in person and some shared incidents about layoffs. COVID has changed market dynamics and operations. Many jobs will be lost forever. The capital was cheap; growth was supreme. Now it is about survival and profitability. So many non-essential roles are getting cleaned up. Some firing incidents […]
Author Archives: Atul
bhool gaye
Kya hum bhool gaye unhe, kya humne dafan kar diya unko- unke kurbaniyoo ke sang? Desh ko banane wale un kaargaar kisanoo aur majduroo ko, marne diya humne unko raste pe, chor diya unko unke badkismatee pe. Kya thi galti unke? Paida hue the wo garib, adham ya jaati dand bhog rahe the samaaj ka? […]
leadership
Every time I read a book on leadership, I end up writing a post. It was Arpit who recommended me Adam Grant’s: Give and take. I am halfway through and, it got me thinking about leadership style. The more I see about leadership: I feel it is like running an orchestra. You have to be […]
game
Is our life more like a game? We cross stages, win points on becoming successful, and lose for failing programmed by society. We look for accomplishments like superpowers at every stage. It is like playing a game, winning a princess in Super Mario(the only game I ever played with all focus). The bright future promised […]
Kaun?
Hai kaun mera, ji raha hun kiske liye mae? Apne aap se ye poochte jata hun mae. Duniya ki mano to jine ke liye sabko ek saathi ki jarurst hote hai, jita nahi hai koi akelepan me. Pata nahi kya nikala logo ne akelepan ka matlab? Apne yadoo aur apne zindgi ko apne marze se […]
The Intellectuals
I have finished reading The Intellectuals by Paul Johnson. The book throws light on another side of these well-accomplished writers and philosophers: Sartre, Tolstoy, Marx, Rousseau, Hemingway, and dozen others. We are not perfect and, there is another side of us all. We see and take things on their face value. On the other side, […]
actions
How many actions or things we said out of impulse? Something which we should not have? It was that very moment when we got triggered and said it. Our actions resulted in us losing a friendship or hurting someone. Why did we act irrationally?
Zindgi
Zite gaye hum zindgi apne, mast hue madmast hue. Jhumte gaye apni duniya me, bekaauf, bewaak, beparwaah. Zindgi hai hamare, zina hai hame, kiske panah me zaye hum, asaara le hum kiska zab hai ye zindgi bus khud ke liye. Zindgi koi khel thore he hai zo kaat diya ya zor diya. Ye zindgi to […]
insecurity
Is born as a female comes with baggage? Has our society created such a divide where women have to suffer? From birth till death, she has to live in fear and insecurity? How can we get over this divide? Is equality, feminism just thing for the media and PR? The fear, insecurity gets fed from […]
switch
I got to know the last day that one of our early adopters is moving on. We got sad because he was there with us from day zero. Our second cheque came from his organization. He was there with us when no one believed in us. The market I am in, there is a constant […]