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How can we be perfect? Be it with life, relationship or profession. It does not happen overnight. A lot of effort is needed to know our imperfection.
Improvement happens knowing what to fix. A lot many of us are living like an animal, disrespecting others, claiming to be always right and wanting to win at all lost.
Niccolò Machiavelli wrote The Prience after losing his job.
I keep seeing work from home posts. It looks funny and at times makes me go nuts. Not everyone can enjoy working from home, especially someone like me. Work from home has its own set of challenges: communication, triggers, and context are a few.
How we perceive and react to the conversation while talking over the phone is different from being together.
What is going in the mind of others and what all pain he is going through cannot be witnessed with one team call.
Not everyone is an extrovert and born perfect for a job. It requires hand-holding and mentoring.
It is easy to take feedback as criticism and form our own opinion. Some people develop aversions of others.
Some people take feedback in positive spirits and grow.
The choice is ours, we can crib or strive to get better. We don’t have to burn ourselves or prove it to someone. It has more to do with us. This body and mind are ours, what we feed it, the mind will dwell on it.
One of my achievements for this year has been binge-watching Ugly Delicious on Netflix. David Change is a great storyteller. I enjoyed watching both seasons. Watching the show made me travel the world and see, learn and experience cuisine across the globe.
I loved knowing the history behind many popular foods, how immigrants carried their food and fusion happened. Be it Chinese and Indian in America or Lebanese in Mexico.
I have been one of the opinionated guys all this while. With experience and age, I have realized no idea, sweat is stupid. We all have our paintbrush to paint our world, we know what colors to use. It is okay to keep painting and not worrying about others’ opinions.
Running a car, letting others pick vegetables for you or living as a guest on another person’s bed or finding a life partner via some mobile app would have never happened.
It is very important to imagine, come up with all kinds of ideas. Acceptance for all should be the mantra for our progressive society.
Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, the greatest work of his came when he was almost deaf.
In the early days of a startup, we have everything at stake. Chances of failing are more than making big. It is important to have a solid founding team who can go against all odds. Each one of us has to be open with our goals and should have priorities aligned with the organization.
Most companies were built to last for 10-15 years before the VC era. Unlike growth at all costs resulting in raise, burn, hire, fire.
Lucky are the founders whose founding team sticks together in a crisis.
As a founding member of team patience, perseverance and belief pay more than regular salary in the longer run. Young millionaires in the valley are also founding members of Google, Yahoo, Facebook et all.
You have to be crazy to run a startup. 9 out of 10 times things get screwed. Be it team, customer, product, legal, investors or partnership. Nothing is certain. We have limited things in our control. The outcome like the shiny unicorn also depends on many externalities.
All we have to do is to keep heads down and take every single day as a new beginning.
Reading eBoys shows the craziness eBay went through is amazing during their IPO.
While reading The Viral Storm, got to know about the history of Smallpox. Out of all the places it came from Camel, shock and amazed at same time.
Excerpt from the book The Viral storm.
I quit twitter temporarily because I was drowning with advice from thought leaders across the sectors. At this time Corona is one thing and financial meltdown is another.
Everyday common news is how founders are giving up entire years’ salary or the whole organization is taking a 25% pay cut.
While some VC’s are sitting next to founders, having regular one to one, webinars another is full of their advice on Twitter and blog.
At this time above everything, we need to treat humans like humans aka with respect and empathy. I liked what Manish has written.
Most of the lucky ones are in social isolation. Trying to read and learn more about the Virus.
Martinus Beijerinck discovered and coined Virus while finding the reason in his father’s tobacco plant. TIL moment for me, maybe because I hated biology in my school days. 🙂
Excerpt from the book The Viral storm.