It took me four years to realize the power of optimization. A founder’s life is on a roller coaster. Someday an employee will leave, some other day customers, there will be days when you will feel like giving up, and another day your personal life will be a wreck. The sooner we accept and optimize …
Category Archives: Random Thoughts
Relaters
The lazy brain of mine has built its relater mechanism. Last Sunday, I met and had a conversation with a few people. PESIT, my friend is also from there. His name is X. My friend, who is also and Odiya, is looking for a marketer. Can you help? I know another UX fellow who has …
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How do a few of us hide the entire world of sorrow within ourselves? I have known a friend who never let the sad part of theirs be known to us all. One fine day he called adios. It is difficult to find what was going on? It surprises me how behind the broad smile, …
meaning
How many of us look for purpose in every action of ours? Is it possible to have meaning out of everything? We should let ourselves free and let our mind wander if we are seeking creativity. The meaninglessness has its advantage and magic. The way we are utilizing our time, always being busy, and compartmentalizing …
Money
How much importance of money plays in our life? The answer is subjective. Need for money for a farmer whose harvest has suffered him a loss. The struggle of loan repayments. The constant threats from loan sharks. How will they live without money? A daughter who graduated got a job to fulfill her parent’s checklist: …
please
Reed Hastings: No rules rules talk about “don’t seek to please your boss.” In the end, it is about the company, not an individual persona. It is okay to be dissent, ask questions, and give feedback. It reminded me of Ray Dalio’s Radical openness. If the organization and management run on pleasing their leaders, how …
mistake
We are all humans; we are not perfect. We commit all kinds of mistakes in life: be it work, life, or relationship. We should learn from our mistakes and avoid repeating them. That will do justice. It is easy to sulk in deep emotional outbursts, depression which is not the solution. Socrates stressed acquiring self-knowledge. …
rethink
There is a time in life when you stop for a moment and look back. The past makes you think about the journey and what has been the learnings. Our life is a mixed bag with good and bitter. Some learn from it, while others die in remorse. We have to rethink these moments and …
Long Game
I have been in a few conversations off late, and becoming a VC or starting a fund seems like a new cool thing. The return takes a long time( 10-12) years. Every three years is new fundraising. It takes lots of patience, perseverance, and luck to find one unicorn. There are many other professions where …
Importance
Why do we have to give importance to things, people, or some belief so much. Does it affect us negatively? Do we surrender our thoughts, thinking to that particular belief, ideology? Does it help us in the long run, or does it make us vulnerable and weak?