Notes from reading: On Love and Loneliness by J Krishnamurti

Continuing with my quest of reading more on J Krishnamurti  I picked up On Love and Loneliness.  It is his series of discourse recorded as a book. These are some of my kindle notes: Love comes into being when the mind is naturally quiet, not made quiet, when it sees the false as false and …

Random Thoughts: What are we living for?

I am still reading J Krishnamurti discourse/book on Love and Loneliness. I will be posting notes soon, while reading though this book I had this question, “What are we living for?” I sent a questionnaire to over 100 friends anonymously only 50 responded.  I have added graphs & code for same below. Group A = [18 …

On managing your team

Running a startup is not an easy job. You have to keep everyone happy from customer to team member. While some people fail at it others excel in building a successful company. I recently read Inspired by Marty Cagan  and PPP was the take away for me from it. People If you will hire right …

Business advice from Ashish [my friend]

I studied my 11-12th with Ashish & have known him for over decade. We grew up together, he got married and blessed with two kids and running a successful business in Delhi. I am  here in Bangalore, trying to figure out what is next. Last week I was in Delhi all for him, because we …

Notes from reading: Inspired, How To Create Products Customers Love by Marty Cagan

After quitting Minio I have been spending my free time in reading & consuming lots of coffee. This book was recommended to me by Anurag Ramdasan  as I am still in process of figuring out what is next. This book is strongly recommended for product managers or folks building customer products. Do follow Marty Cagan’s official …

Notes from reading: The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch

This book is list of wisdom shared by Randy Pausch, he had cancer and few months to live.  I got this book from my sister’s bookshelf, it is one of the best read for me so far this year, extremely recommended. These are some notes, some are titles of the book [self explanatory] : Dream …

Paris climate agreement, Donald & us.

President Donald Trump announced that he is withdrawing the U.S. from a landmark, international climate agreement. I understand the concern of whole world and who bad this comes on fellow american friends. Is keeping climate clean is just Paris climate agreement? Are we doing our part? Switching off light for an hour in year & running AC …

Notes from reading: On Fear by J Krishnamurti

Continuing with my quest of reading more on J Krishnamurti  I picked up On Fear. It is his series of discourse on our fear. These are some of my clipped notes from the book: We have so accepted the pattern of fear that we don’t want even to move away from it. When you compare …

Falling in love, breakup up and moving on

Falling in love We have to fall in love, it is mandatory : You won’t get place to sit or meal if you are alone and visiting eateries or elsewhere. How will you share all those photos to your Facebook et all. Peer pressure and friend circle around us takes over this. How do we …

Random Thoughts: society baggage

Society has  its own yardstick, from  birth to death it wants you to follow a protocol. Stick to the rules or become a misfit. I remember how my dad wanted me to do engineering in electronics & comm, because it was hot{he heard it from some relatives}. I don’t blame him, I am proud of …