One matric which I consider for growth is how people in my team are growing and how they are maturing and getting ready to fill in our shoe. We had a good discussion with one of our early hires, the feedback we received as a founder was an eye-opener. I see growth as my team …
Category Archives: Random Thoughts
The Impressionists
I was watching the documentary and got to learn about: The Impressionists. A half a dozen of misfits going against odds and creating a new style of painting. Most of them were poor and; not part of the existing elite and, selling their artwork via Salon was not an option. The Impressionists came up with …
communication
With a group of great people when you are on the journey of building something, communication can make or break the ship. The other aspect is the expectation mismatch. If the product team is not explaining correctly to dev leads about customer’s pain and the sales team are not indicated on realistic feature releases. It …
revisit
Have you ever spent some time revisiting memories of your school, college days? I spent last evening going through my school websites, checking on the archives, and all. It was like I am there in those moments: hostel, playground, mess, tuck shop. I could find myself everywhere, just a little lost and clueless, ignorant of …
Being Hindu
In his last India visit, Akshat Sir gave me this book title: Bing Hindu. I was not keen on reading it because of the title. I was cynical with the book title. The book talks about our golden age, history, and many intellectuals. It also talks about how westerners came, plundered, and erased our past. …
Animals
Are we a social animal or the herd? With the progress in civilization, we have gotten domesticated. We took shelters and created our identity with religion? Our daily work defined our social status. We moved to live in a bucket and society construct. Our identity got associated with the family we were born, caste/social status …
History
“History Is Written by the Victors,”: Winston Churchill. That is why all his atrocities towards Indians got less attention than all his greatness. Does our history has any truth? How much do we know about the past? Artists, painters were commissioned to sing laurels, brevity. There was an exchange of money to write, paint. How …
Star Trek
I am watching Star Trek again. My founders at Minio introduced me to it. Start Trek is not limited to space exploration, intergalactic expedition but; full of philosophy, leadership, and co-existence. It makes you think about our co-existence, challenges, and opportunity. The author was ahead of our time. Most of the devices used in the …
Art
My friend told me he would pursue art after retirement. At this point, it is all about grinding and running after money. I am not sure if retirement as a concept exists anymore. We are working throughout our life. Art is not a wine that gets better with age. It can be taken together with …
power
The last 18 months have made me more empathetic with the telemarketing calls and people on the other side. It was not the case before. What has changed? I find myself in their shoe now. I am a sales guy now for our product. Every week, I write numerous emails, messages, and talk to people. …