Fire your friends!

If your school friends keep dragging you down and pulling you back and make you feel bad about ‘growing too fast’, fire them! You grow up.And pick a path that your friends don’t want.They want to stay where they are.They want to be comfortable.You don’t want to. It’s...

Biggest mistake I made as a founder

Over-indexing on intelligence is one of the biggest mistakes I made while hiring as a founder. Smart people are so used to being smart that they keep solving problems. Moving from one to another. Start-ups equally require people who persist. Who’d love to do just one...

The most precious gift

Listening to someone without judgement is the most precious gift you can give to that person. No one else could walk your path.When you accept this, you turn off your blinders.And listen to the person talking to you, instead of figuring out how to give them solutions....

Risk, and the ultimate failure

Risk and failure are a state of mind. There are no measurement scales for them. We create them. So, we can destroy them too. We are not naturally trained to love ourselves. Learning how to do so is this journey called life. Is reaching a certain goal the only measure...

Time and money

No one owes you their time and money. And you don’t owe anyone either. It’s the mark of a cool human to understand people’s respect for their time and money.It’s the mark of a wise human to respect their own. This makes us not feel guilty for saying no.This also makes...