A successful founder creates a tribe and leaves a legacy.The real wealth benefits everybody, not just founders.We have numerous books dedicated to building successful startups. Very few founders talk about treating humans above the stock price.And even less on values and radical openness. A company is built by it’s people. Building a successful enterprise requires …
Author Archives: Atul
Hostel
Thinking about hostel days in early childhood gives me goosebumps. My parents thought this would show me life and make me more human. I think it was class 4 or 5. I thank my parents for this. When you are thrown early on into unchartered territory, you grow up. There is no one to pamper …
India
I feel blessed and lucky to be born here. The unity in diversity makes me better every day. We are a young country and developing. We all have our way of seeing our world. For me, I am loving my country and living here. What is the meaning of asking not what your country can …
Meritocracy
We are living in the era of Meritocracy. If you have a dream and work hard, you will have backers to make your dreams come true. You will find the way, but all hard work needs to be done by yourself. I know many rags-to-riches stories where people built their lives with hard work. They …
Superpower
We all carry certain powers deep within. It has been through us all along. We can’t see it because we get lost in daily chores and world pleasures. As a result, these powers become dormant. We were born with a clean slate. As we grew old, society conditioned us. Our worldview became opaque with a …
Frugality
From Benjamin Franklin to Charlie Munger to Sam Zell.All talk about frugality, a life where you spend as much as you need. The current world of consumerism and frugality has become a dystopia. Buying on loans and credit cards is a norm.We are in the era of hoarding.Our happiness has transitioned into fast fashion and …
Practice
Many great authors wrote their stories that later became a masterpiece. It is their personal journey and life experience inside which they live constantly. It results in easy writing for the masses. Another trait that made them all write well is clarity, which comes with lots of practice. We undermine the value of practice and …
Scar
We are all carrying a Scar within us.It is our past.Some of us come out of it and make a new life.Rest others continue the baggage of the past and succumb to it.As a result, they continue to be miserable.They don’t want to live in now.Their past becomes a scar and makes them vulnerable.Every minute …
Pain
We humans become better with pain. The reality of life is that it is full of pain and misery. Most of us surrender to it, become slaves and sick, and continue to accept it as a part of life and die. While pain adds patience and willingness to go against all odds for survival, it …
bored
I keep hearing from friends about being bored now and then. Most of them are earning well and have a lifestyle that less than 1% of the rich in India can afford. How come someone gets bored with all these luxuries in life? Is it because most humans are animals with monkey minds taking over …