“Move on. It’s in the past.”

This is one of the worst things that people can say if you have just failed or lost. Don’t move on. Pause.Reflect.Introspect.Make changes.Then take a step. Failure by itself does not lead to success.It is the introspection and action upon failure that leads to...

The difference between important and urgent

During a 1:1 with my team member, she asked me the meaning of something I had shared online.“The more you solve for today, the farther tomorrow gets.” I explained:There are urgent things:Calls.Emails.Timelines.Attending to the door.DMs to be responded to. And there...

Your first work matters!

“Hey Ankur, I read your blog posts from 2005 onwards and they were quite unlike who you are today.Why do you still have them there?Don’t you care that people will judge you for who you were?” Someone asked me this earlier this week. I wrote my first...

5 cool things to get independence from

Someone else’s definition of success for you. People who do not support your dreams, instead question them. The chase for money, that doesn’t let you even enjoy it. Your own self, whenever you say “I’m like this only!” The belief that it is too late. YOU have...

3 lies about money the world tells us

1. Money is the root cause of all evil. From an early age, thinking about money was not encouraged.It was the unsaid rule that money is important, but thinking about it is evil.After all, money was the reason behind the fights, the wars, and the disagreements. Now I...