A community is a set of like-minded people. We share the same vision and belief. But does community has the charter to compare and compete with others? When religion came via horsemen, and hermits community changed into submission, fear, and faith. It also fostered religious war for superiority. My previous jobs were around community development. …
Author Archives: Atul
High
I used to laugh at people on being high on sugar and all. Yesterday I had a meeting after which I ended up at Glen’s, a bakehouse in town. I ended up eating red velvet cake and cappuccino. Hours after that I was buzzing. I was laughing, chilling and writing texts to friends and was …
Creativity
I understand capitalism means slogging our ass. But when it comes to creativity, it requires a clear head and calm state of mind. Can laziness make you creative? A life without daily todo or productivity hacks? I could use signaling and share quotes of successful folks who were misfits and lead life on their rules. …
Social psychology
Social psychology experiments are a fashionable field. The celebrated author, psychologist Daniel Kahneman won a Nobel prize. He also happens to be the author of the best seller: Thinking fast and slow. I got to know about this field via Freakonomics and Hidden brain podcast. I was hooked to Social psychology. Fast forward, 600 days …
Control
Epictetus wrote enchoridian centuries ago. The paragraph where he mentions what things we have in our control and we don’t have has been a principle for me. I consider lucky getting to know about it, soaking it up. Many things we do in our lives with our best efforts. But if we decide the result …
Timeline
I met Akshat sir today. I have known him since 2004. He is my college senior and more like brother to me. Meeting him was so refreshing. We were lost in past, so many memories kept flowing. It was like going back in a time machine. We spent the whole day together over coffee/lunch/pizza. He …
Positive
Being positive is key to success in this journey of life. At every juncture, we have to choose our path and not being positive will let us down. I was a super pessimistic human until a few years back, then thunder lightning struck. Why am I doing this? In the end nothing matters, we all …
Capitalism
My tweets and previous posts must be signaling about my disliking towards Capitalism. To clarify, I am a product of capitalism. So having a biased approach against it is irrational. This independent life of mine, the freedom to do whatever I like and wherever I can travel is part of Capitalism. The meritocratic rise of …
Disruption
My ear hurts everytime I hear about disruption. I don’t understand why marketers, growth hackers, VCs, journalists or entrepreneurs make use of this. How can we disrupt something when in reality we are rebuilding it on the same base. Should disruption be not called progress? The enablers of any market become better with time. Disruption …
Sleep
I have got a problem with my sleep. As of 2019, I have planned to take continuous effort taking care of it. As a result : Giving away my coffee machine. No laptop in my bedroom. Time will tell how much this effort helps.