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, …
Category Archives: Random Thoughts
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 …
Growth
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 …
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. …