As a leader, it is necessary to understand the other side and team. Everyone looks at the leader, tries to match or clone their virtues as well as vice. We are living in a fragile world, and we are all broken one or the other way. The complexity of personal life, finance, society pressure is …
Category Archives: Life
Religion
Religion came into existence so that it could bring society together. It was for the oneness. As we progressed, a few men gave different colors to it for their benefit. It kept them in power and garner followers to establish their dictatorship. Some of them ended up erasing our past and infused radical ideology. An …
dream
Is dream affiliated to wealth, caste, color, or origin? Is it not free? Anyone and everyone can have a dream. Nothing can stop us from dreaming. A vegetable vendor’s son can be a ballerina, a rickshaw puller daughter can become a successful doctor, or a uber driver can be an IAS officer. Our dreams are …
grateful
Why are we not grateful and appreciate what we have? A family, friends, rooftop are what keeps us going. The glitters and consumerism have made us hoarder and seeker for more and more. But is there an end to our desire? Is it not a goalpost we are chasing? Or some video game difference being …
Fire
Spending some time on social media or news channels, it feels the world is coming to an end. Anything and everything catered is full of negativity and pain. I understand the world is not a beautiful place. There is a great divide between caste, class, religion. But liming the information to gain eyeballs with all …
Aging
Started reading lifespan by David A. Sinclair. The book talks about aging and argues it to be treated like any other disease. Excerpt from the book. These are the multiple hallmarks of aging. Genomic instability caused by DNA damage. Attrition of the protective chromosomal endcaps Alterations to the epigenome that controls which genes are turned …
Divide
India has one of the youngest world population. Our education system is leapfrogging. The society stereotype has forced everyone aspires to become the next software engineer. Many new-age startups have gone steps further selling parents how their kids can become the next Nadella or Pichai by coding at an early age. Aspirational middle-class parents are …
Fermentation
I was watching Sandor Katz: The Art of Fermentation lecture. It was an eye-opener for me. I remember how grandma was very particular about leftover curd to make more curd from it. Fermentation is more of a magic than science. We have made bacteria the villain. They are part of us humans residing in guts …
Reading
We are living in a hyper-connected world. We are always connected, occupied and and short of time. I keep hearing from friends that podcast and audiobooks have replaced their book-reading habits. I have not found replacing book reading with audiobooks. It should not matter how many books you have read for the badge, but the …
people skills
I have been in this startup ecosystem for over a decade now in multiple hats. There is a pattern that I have noticed: you need to be a people’s person before anything else. I have also seen people be it a VC, founder, or an analyst at a fund progressing well in their career with …