A founder’s life is a roller coaster ride, someday painful while another with happy surprises. There is no end to it. One has to be or act like a router between customers, team, and other stakeholders. In the end, a founder is responsible for the journey of the rocketship. They decide and take the route …
Category Archives: Random Thoughts
Mine
I have been seeing a trend where we define an invisible wall defining mine and yours. It results in creating a divide and resulting in chaos. We add my name to everything: friends, work, loved ones, or our wealth. The constant urge of multiplying mine or keeping control of it is making us worried or …
Settle
I keep getting asked about settling down.I have never understood the meaning or context around it. Is setting down a pipe dream or invisible unicorn most of us are chasing. Or is it a kind of social construct? In short, who defines the life checklist, planner for us?
plan
I have seen people living life with plans at a small and finite granularity. I have also seen people living life moment to moment. In the former case, when a plan misfires, misery kicks in. While in a later scene we accept things as it happens. I am not saying we should have a life …
friends
One of the key ingredient of healthy life is having a few friends in front of whom we can be naked. A bunch of few will stand by us during testing times. They are the shining stars taking us out from the self-doubt of our existence. During my Delhi trip, I met a few of …
class divide
I was traveling to Bangalore from Bagdogra a few days back. I could feel how the class system rules and the treatment for an English and a non-English speaker, predominantly a migrant worker. My experience was limited to the aviation sector. Pandemic has opened a new section of flayers: the migrant workers. With the limited …
granted
Most of us take a lot many things for granted. Be it our parents, dear ones, or our possessions. We get used to it and think these are default. One fine day when parents get admitted to the hospital for some surgery, we realize their impermanence. We get into the misery of what all we …
choice
Our mind craves for: what’s next, all the time. As a result, we end up looking for the next big thing. Also, our brain keeps a safe locker of all our past experiences, which serves us best during fight or flight scenarios. Our present get the least attention, which should ideally be the most important …
Journey
Running a startup is like a movie; it has multiple phases. I was told by Ajay Gore; while we were talking. I have been troubling him on/off regularly for advice. It was him and Sidu who kicked me to start aroundstartups podcasts. There are multiple instances in your journey when you will get tempted to go out of your organization’s …
associate
How little things take over us. All of a sudden we become avid readers or a poet or a runner or a cook etc. Our identity becomes these skills. We end up living non-stop in this new attained skin. Something deep within we all have that longing to be loved, to be appreciated. And this …