Building a startup is like a flowing river stream.When it starts from the glacier, it has a strong current with no defined course. Over time, when it reaches the plains, it becomes more predictable, steady, and controlled. With the passing of time, the same applies: it meets the sea and becomes a world. The journey …
Category Archives: Life
Urgency
As a founder, if you are settled and not seeking urgency: whether in closing sales or shipping: your team will mirror you.They will gradually become complacent, and deliverables will start taking months instead of weeks. We humans are creatures of habit.It takes very little time to adopt others’ behaviour when you are part of a …
Overconfidence
Sometimes our overconfidence leads us to lose more relationships, business, and connections than we gain. We live in a society, and we are tamed to live in a herd. No one likes getting hurt by others’ actions. As an overconfident individual, you will turn to burn bridges and leave connections hanging. In the short run, …
#20
Whatever
As a founder, you have to grow a thick skin. You are responsible for all the failures, while success will be shared by everyone. The sooner you realise it is your responsibility to run the company, the more aware and stoic you will be about everything. Running a startup is not for the faint-hearted. The …
identity
At every step of our lives, we create an aura, an identity of ourselves. It can be how others see us or how we see the world around us. These are just a few examples I have listed, but observe yourself. You will be carrying a dozen other identities. We carry ourselves in layers. Our …
Inward
As we age, we end up becoming more connected to ourselves: likes, dislikes, and many other beliefs become de facto. We tend to focus on what really matters to us more than what others will think. Our bullshit detection keeps on improving, and we become wiser in staying away from what we don’t want. This …
attention
We are all craving attention. It’s the reason social media is minting millions, and why influencer marketing even exists. As a civilization, we are increasingly seeking validation from the outside rather than within. The reason is simple: the modern world has given us enough luxury that we are no longer worried about food, shelter, or …
compare
We live in a world shaped by social media. Every other advertisement promises a better life, better looks, or greater wealth. The urge to compare ourselves with our peers is constant. This vice of comparison can drive an ordinary person to madness, because nothing ever feels enough. History is full of stories of wars, betrayals, …
life
Going by the media and news websites, it often feels like the world is coming to an end. Our jobs are supposedly going to AI, and we’re heading toward a recession. Every other day, some new piece of negative news takes over the front page. I remember graduating in 2007, right in the middle of …