Change starts from the top. Monkey see, monkey do. If the leader is complacent and not paranoid, how do we expect the team to deliver? Can you change the default overnight? Human beings’ obstacle is fighting with themselves and bringing change within. Everyday PR stories and startup news reporting speak of founders announcing about conserving …
Category Archives: Random Thoughts
entrepreneurship
I see people preaching about becoming an entrepreneur and breaking into entrepreneurship. I have my aversion to these sales pitches or evangelism. Entrepreneurship is not clearing an engineering entrance or a medical entrance exam where you read a syllabus and jump in to qualify. Entrepreneurship is not a 9 to 5 job with a steady …
rant
How much can we progress in life if we rant non-stop?How much time will be left to love ourselves if we criticize the world?Our progress depends on how we see the world, not what the world has to offer us. We can waste our time criticizing others or seizing the moment.It is easy to complain …
own
How much do we have to keep ourselves in hiding? Why can we not own our flaws and walk boldly for the rest of our life? Nothing stopped Helen Keller from writing. She knew she had to live with it throughout her life. Our life on this planet is limited, and not all of us …
freedom
Freedom means you are an adult and aware of your responsibility. You don’t have someone monitoring your everyday work. At the same time organization makes you part of its own with a belief in mutual progress. Time and again, it has been observed some are taking advantage of it. As a result, everyone suffers.
Peace
How much peace are you with yourself?You have been running in your early 20s to uplift your family.As a good son, you have been at your parent’s service.In your late 20’s got married, and now you have one companion to talk to and live life together.You want to bring the best of the world for …
enemy
The enemy is within us. We are our own daemons. We torment, suffer and cry within. We constantly fight, blame, and anger ourselves. The fear, hate, and lovelessness of ourselves make us lose even before we start anything. Why are we like this? Is it generational? Is it because of our fight-flight response or our …
agent of change
Some people walk into our life, make us better and stay with us for eternity or disappear. After my class 10th, my mother sent me out of Bihar for higher studies. I believe this was one of the milestones in my life. Later on, during engineering, participating in FOSS and open source technology and meeting …
trust
A lot of my friends tell me I trust people easily. As a result, I suffer. I don’t know about the suffering part. One thing is sure: radical trust has been a mixed bag for me. I have made lifelong friends, lost money, and suffered emotionally. All of it has happened. But when I see …
focus
Focus is absent in a hyper-connected world with gadgets and mobile apps available around the clock.I still remember growing up controlling the Internet and television purview.We were less distracted and grew up taking limited knowledge.As I aged, with time learned and gained knowledge with time. Our time on this planet is limited.We can progress in …