What drives the feeling of security 

This month I spent a fair share of my time conducting 1:1s with all the teams at nearbuy. Hear them out, their thoughts, views, reactions, responses to whatever is happening to them and around them.  And I ended my message to them requesting the following: Do...

Exits!

Started my morning with a heartfelt life story – about how to exit the world. People share their most honest stories during their last moments. And that’s true for real life as well. In 10 years of work experience, the unfortunate realization that’s...

Paper Planes

  I got up yesterday at 7am Went to the gym and had a good workout Came back. Read the newspaper. Made breakfast for Ruchi and me Worked for 3 hours Lunch Watched 5 TED videos Went to watch a play by Rajat Kapoor Shopped for a few things at the mall Went for...

Don’t believe what you have achieved 

It’s easy for the world to brand you as a success or failure – depending on their mood and the inflation rate (insert any other irrelevant metric here)  It is equally easy for you to fall in that trap.  “I did it” or “I fucked...

Coding is the future 

There was furor recently on a TechCrunch article that not everyone needs to know how to code.  And then (thankfully) there was a response – everyone should  I agree Just as the past century has been about managing people and how to get work done from...

Who defines success? 

I take a course at a business school. And there is no final exam for that course. Just one question instead  “List at least 3 things you learnt during the course” All those who list 3 things fail the exam.  “List at least 3 things you...