It is difficult to stay focused in this noisy world. Everyone has got advice for others. In building a product what matters most is your customers, who have got pain. Focusing on such a tribe is the only way to succeed. Everything else is noise. I remember my Hindi teacher repeating proverb: Elephant walk on …
Category Archives: Life
negative
What makes us see things in the negative? Is it our life long conditioning or lizard brain? We give up easily and losing is the default assumption. How will we win without a positive mindset? What would have happened to Cars, if Ford had followed on buddy owners? What would have been to the society …
memory lane
Someday I get lost in the past. Papa shared a picture of mine with my grandma, I would have been 5-6 years old I am assuming. I have been thinking about my grandma, my village and the summer holidays. I am not sure about others but I am lucky that a good part of my …
paint
Are we not painting our life every day with our unique paintbrush of thoughts, actions, and creativity? We will fill our unique colors of joy, learning, and relationships with the paintbrush. How can it be similar to the others?
lost
It is good to be lost. We have more opportunities to think, introspect and question ourselves and the decisions we have taken so far in our life. Being lost is not a bad thing as we fire up more of our neurons and get in the zone of pushing more for seeking uncomfortable questions. Most …
vulnerable
We are all vulnerable. So with our identity and others with reaching somewhere. Being vulnerable can be a burden and burns lots of our neurons. We start self-doubting, questioning everything happening to us which can be good or bad. We should ask ourselves why situations or conditions make us vulnerable. What can we do to …
old age
My friends keep telling me, Instead of living now I am preparing for old age. My response to this is simple: I have to stay healthy and independent. To be both healthy and independent I don’t have t prepare or wait for old age. It is a virtue one can inculcate now and live every …
airport
I find the airport center of innovation. Every time I travel I get to see something new. The premise is more efficient, making things get done quickly. Be it luggage drop, security check or getting your booking pass. Once you are inside an airport, you find a complete cosmopolitan. People from various sectors, society, backgrounds …
human brain
Our brain is the most volatile organ. It is the operating system of us. If the brain is in shape, we are good. If the brain is out of place we are fucked. In the book Behave, Robert Sapolsky throws some light on the same. For simple reading, I have collected my learning about the …
opinion
Why do we have an opinion over something or someone? Are we all not trying to live a life of our own? Don’t we have our challenges and limitations? Why can’t we put ourselves in others’ shoes? Why don’t we realize that this life of ours is limited?