We are living in a transactional world. Be it your lover, your kid, or colleagues. Everyone likes to be helped and align with those who are out there for the rescue. The measure of our success is the wealth we have accumulated or the worldly possessions we own. Our pedigree or job role gets followers …
Category Archives: Random Thoughts
Insult
Have we become more feedback averse? We feel insulted when a subordinate, mentor gives us critical feedback. We end up engaging in passionate conversation, proving our position. Do we feel threatened? Do we get scared? Or it has more to do with our pride? I feel our level of tolerance, seeing, and taking feedback in …
Technology
Has technology made a better life for us all? We will get a mixed answer for the same. Ask a son living in the metro who speaks to his parents every morning and shares his day via video conference. It seems magic, a family connected via technology and sharing lives. Now there are other incidents …
leadership
Every time I read a book on leadership, I end up writing a post. It was Arpit who recommended me Adam Grant’s: Give and take. I am halfway through and, it got me thinking about leadership style. The more I see about leadership: I feel it is like running an orchestra. You have to be …
game
Is our life more like a game? We cross stages, win points on becoming successful, and lose for failing programmed by society. We look for accomplishments like superpowers at every stage. It is like playing a game, winning a princess in Super Mario(the only game I ever played with all focus). The bright future promised …
The Intellectuals
I have finished reading The Intellectuals by Paul Johnson. The book throws light on another side of these well-accomplished writers and philosophers: Sartre, Tolstoy, Marx, Rousseau, Hemingway, and dozen others. We are not perfect and, there is another side of us all. We see and take things on their face value. On the other side, …
actions
How many actions or things we said out of impulse? Something which we should not have? It was that very moment when we got triggered and said it. Our actions resulted in us losing a friendship or hurting someone. Why did we act irrationally?
insecurity
Is born as a female comes with baggage? Has our society created such a divide where women have to suffer? From birth till death, she has to live in fear and insecurity? How can we get over this divide? Is equality, feminism just thing for the media and PR? The fear, insecurity gets fed from …
switch
I got to know the last day that one of our early adopters is moving on. We got sad because he was there with us from day zero. Our second cheque came from his organization. He was there with us when no one believed in us. The market I am in, there is a constant …
interview
I had an interview scheduled with a successful founder last day. I have revived aroundstartups podcast and mostly talking to founders. What was supposed to be a pre-interview conversation went on for an hour. We later realized it was an interview, not a coffee conversation. It was more like two listening and learning from someone …