align

Relationship, business, or transaction alignment of incentive should take a prime seat. We rush and get into any partnership out of compulsion or other reasons. It results in disaster for both parties.

Be very careful if you are into a long-lasting relationship or fruitful business transaction.

memories

Mesmerizing old days of life have their own sides. On the positive, we think about all the fun, and negative, we regret what we did wrong. But seeing it rationally makes us more mature.

I am in Delhi currently, and walking/travling across city brings back many such memories. Most instances, I am laughting at myself over all those incidents.

Time is a great healer, told someone. I would say age brings experience and helps in moving forward more efficiently. Our life is anyways sum of all our experiences.

compare

Why do we compare our life with others? Our life is unique, and so is our journey. Will comparison not put us under pressure or cause depression?

We can always aspire and work towards getting better in life or career and work towards jumping ladders but on our own with all our efforts.

Putting our life on a treadmill is a byproduct of comparing it with our friends or siblings.

acceptance

Most life miseries are the byproduct of non-acceptance: like making things work when we know it won’t: realtionship and enterprenuership alike.

We keep holding on to the faith that things will work out by some magical means due to delution and sunk cost.

The castle of hope with glass celieng falls over our head and makes us regret for life.

Some would still sail through that they gave their best. The journey was fruitful enough unlike the outcome.

dynamics

The hyper-funded startup ecosystem has changed the dynamics of the relationship between leaders and teams. The culture driven by building it together for a cause has changed into hiring and firing.

The love for building products has turned into pay packages or what can be sold for the next fundraising. Solving it for customer or a pain has taken a backseat.

The dynamics between employee and employer has changed so has the the joy of building a startup.

random

We undervalue the importance of random catchups with friends: meeting over coffee/lunch/breakfast with no agenda. It creates more bonding and acts as a therepy for our mind.

The world we are living is a rat race. We are competing with rest of the world. Sometimes it makes sense to sit back, relax and enjoy these lazy moments.

money

Are we slaves to money?
Or our consciousness has gone for toss chasing this utopia. What has gone wrong?
Why has money become leading indicatior of charactor, respect and prosparity?
What are we losing while chasing money?
Are we losing our head, self respect or real us?
Why are relationships made or broken on money as prime arbitrage?
Why are you worthless because you have no money?

The more I think, I feel stone age was better; atleast there was a community and little love for each other.

Bridgital Nation

Halfway through reading Bridgital Nation by N Chandrasekaran. The book talks about how technology can bridge India’s basic infrastructure necessity.

So far author has stressed the need for education and healthcare needs across India. The number he shares throws a sad figure, atleast in the healthcare domain where 65% qualified doctors are curing 35% urban India.

The book also talks about case study and shares stories on how educating women or providing access to education has changed lives of many women in rural India who constantly battle against societal pressure for a job or study.

preach

Social media is a loudspeaker and one place to observe someone’s practice and preach duality.

I keep meeting friends who work at various startups whose founders are the thought leaders on social media platforms. They laugh at how these leaders have different opinions in reality.

The more I see social media more I realize the big divide in what the leaders are practicing and preaching.

A donkey can paint or act like a zebra temporarily. Same goes for a horse dancing like fake unicorn.