As the company grows, we get lost in many activities that take away focus from culture. We hire in a flock with people of various backgrounds and expectations. We forgo our principle because we need a 10X engineer or high flying sales folk. The side effect of this is people who were with you from …
Category Archives: Life
success
Society has associated success with the accumulation of wealth. The more money you have, the more successful you are. Is success the manifest of our wealth accumulation? Or is it about seeing people around you, believers getting better with you? Is it not about being together, going hand in hand with our life journey? How …
perfect
Are we all perfect? Even the moon has a dark spot. Lotus grows in the swamp and diamond deep beneath the coal mines. How can we expect humans to be perfect at all things? We are broken, imperfect in one or the other way. I will not go in the deep how Mozart was deaf …
judge
Every minute, every meeting, we are judging our counterparts. It is a human tendency; we like and dislike people on our experience, observation, and our likings. I get advice from friends and people on how I should talk, dress, and act when on a sales call. The problem for me is, I have never followed …
purpose
Why are we doing this? Is this something I can end my career? Is this the purpose of my life? Am I all geared up for walking up every morning and working on it? Finding purpose is like finding the meaning, true north, or guiding star in life. We get lost to externals. Our end …
raising
Running a startup is like a marriage. It is like working with a family: team, customers, and believers. It could get overwhelming at times. There would be an itch, making a better product, winning new customers, and keeping everyone on the same page. It is crazy, fun-filled, and full of uncertainties & excitement. It is …
limit
Can we do everything? Like they sell you in the bestseller 10000 hours to mastery? Or is it more about how we approach a task? Is it our mindset and, how we see a challenge exciting or painful limits us? Is all our achievements in life, the limits created by our brain? Are we so …
journey
The more I think about life, it feels like a destination less train journey full of surprise. We are on a ride. It can be good, bad, or ugly. In sum total a mixed bag. That true north, that made in heaven things are not real. It is sold to us by the materialistic marketers. …
fast
We are living in a fast-paced world. New-age companies like tinder, Amazon, Slack, Uber has it in their DNA. Pace is the mantra for Gig-economy. At the same time, delivery agents and warehouse workers are turning into slaves. Build fast and break things are the new age startup, growth strategy. Hire and fire are the …
Chauthi Chand
Growing up with parents and grandparents in a Hindu family, celebrating festivals has special meaning. It is not about prayers, bowing to the gods alone. It was also about the grand feast and meeting relatives, cousins. Mother and Grandmom will be on fast. I think not even having water. They would prepare lots of prasad …