A leader’s role is temporary but the organization lasts for decades. A successful leader creates an environment and trains and motivates their team so that teaching and learning continue even in their absence. You don’t want to be a control-free leader but create an environment where teaching philosophy has deeply ingrained within your organization. Whether …
Category Archives: Life
community
Over seven years as a community manager and an evangelist my only job was to spend time with community contributors. The thing working for me has been treating contributors as human’s first code contribution or organizing events being secondary. The same goes for gifting swags, it came last. I still hang out with folks from …
progress
What is your definition of progress?Is becoming famous and rich a sign of progress? The more I see these days titles where the author talks about getting rich, famous, or finding a soulmate who falls for you. I start questioning consciousness. We and the world has become more prosperous than before. Our life expectancy has …
Validation
We live in a world where our survival depends on how others perceive us. The reason why beauty care, fashionwear, or social media thrives. The burden of validation impacts everyone. The person seeking validation and people in their circle. Sometimes I wonder which came first our ego or the craving for validation. Or is anger …
complex
Have we made our life complex with our needs, actions, and desires? We want love, we seek attention and we crave independence. As a result, we end up building a complex maze of wants. We end up being angry, depressed, and sad when desires are unmet. We get stressed, overwork, collapse and go down further …
Manipal
After living in metros for over two decades, I am moving to Manipal, a small town in coastal Karnataka known for engineering/medical college.It also has an adjacent temple town named Udupi which I want to explore. Moving out of Bangalore is simple: to indulge in nature and water sports. I also have half a dozen …
mirror
One of our mind’s negative manifest is mirroring.We expect things to be as they were in a job, relationship, or life.The reason is our laziness and comfort.It adds a barrier to our life and affects our progress. We start comparing our new companion with the old one.We start comparing the previous job perk with the …
entrepreneurship
My biggest challenge with entrepreneurship is the amount of hype it gets. We are not some modern gladiators or in the fashion parade.We don’t need all the media boost and appeasement.Some end up calling themselves entrepreneurs just for the glory and wrong reasons. Entrepreneurship is like any other occupation to solve customers’ pain, work with …
focus
Focus is our most valuable currency. We are living in a connected world where everyone is seeking our attention. It is on us to decide what to prioritize. The same goes for running any business. It takes lots of sweat, will, and luck to make it a success. But above all, it requires focus. There …
diverse
I have been to over five states of India in the last 15 days.It makes me more humble.It affirms our country’s diversity.Every state has its specialty and problem.I wonder what keeps such a diverse state together as a country. Is it our will to live and represent a unison or our need for roti, kapra, …