We are carrying a mask: an artificial version of ourselves, pretending to act as others expect. We play roles in different settings: with peers, parents, and partners. In short, we have built a unique mental model of stimulus and response. Everyone appears to be doing great: on social media, in their professional lives among friends, …
Category Archives: Random Thoughts
Itch
People say hiring is a tough exercise. We’ve been lucky—we never really faced that problem. Maybe it’s because we’ve always been clear: we hire people who are genuinely willing to work with us and believe in our long-term vision at Taghash. It’s been 9 years, yet it still feels like day zero. The cycle of …
love
love is: Everything happens if love is true without any expectations. Love is living now, in this moment, as a voyager in this universe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Vv-BfVoq4
Defect
We live in a world where someone, long ago, set the rules. They defined what is good, bad, or ugly. What is considered a defect? If your profession is not part of a designated boundary, you do not exist. You are a defect. People called Van Gogh a defect. The same was true of what …
Slow
We are living in the era of AI, where everything is moving at an incredible pace. My customers and friends constantly tell me to ship faster. At times, I feel FOMO seeing young founders in their 20s claiming to have built in months what I’ve been working on for nearly a decade:Taghash, now 9 years …
industrialised
Is automation killing authenticity? From pre-mixed gravy to cloud kitchen. We are becoming a mass market consumer. There is no real taste left. You order a gravy, and it will have a bucket load of cream or a sugary tomato blend taste. The same goes for any other drinks. Most restaurants sell packaged juice as …
Winners
We live in a world where opinions are often seen as a cure for misery, and social media has amplified this trend even further. Any nameless account will post anything about anyone and anything. Building a successful startup requires a winner’s mindset. It starts with radical optimism and self-belief: a level of becoming obsessed and …
Bonus
We forget our roots. We leave the skin we were born with. With age, we transform. We are living in an uncertain era where we can go bust at any moment. There is no guarantee for anything. Some of us get worried and stressed about accepting this reality. This has happened in the past, and …
Lowballing
The price of being nice in business is that people will take you for granted. This should not shake your core fundamentals. This is an arm-twisting technique that has existed for a long time and has been practiced by many in trade. The sooner you realise that your niceness is seen as weakness, the sooner …
Dilemma
We live in a world where underdogs live, thrive, and flourish silently. It acts as a double-edged sword on the path to progress. Our capitalist society often succumbs to the bazooka-like force of marketing. “Fake it till you make it” gets more limelight, and people form opinions just by the looks of things. With technological …