Social comparison: How to manage it In modern-day careers, we tend to compare ourselves to our college batchmates or peers who are growing faster than us. I have never found this healthy, and I found a few hacks early in my career that helped me keep this tendency at bay. …

The best way to look at life is to frame it like a game in which you care about the outcome. The fun and excitement are in progress towards the outcome. The only two questions that matter in life: What do I want in life? …

The one piece of timeless advice that is most common across eons is “Be in the present moment.” Like with all wisdom, the trick lies in relentlessly practicing, so it becomes a part of your being. “Being in the present moment” is particularly hard in modern-day careers, where we strive…

Thus is a post on a decision that changed my life. As far as I remember, I was a boy who followed my heart. I made up my decisions instinctively without worrying about the probabilities of possible consequences. …

It’s common knowledge that hiring right is 10X more difficult than managing right. However, over the years, I have also realized that hiring right makes managing right 10X easier. …

I read fountainhead as a wide-eyed tweenager (early 20’s) and most of the book went above my head. I re-read it recently (laaaaate 30s ) and picked out key ideas that I want to ruminate upon. Ethics are man’s code of good and evil. Religion pre-empted the field of ethics. …

It was a beautiful morning and i was around 50 minutes into a run along the winding paths of lush green coffee estate in coorg. My energy was flagging and i was staring at a 250m uphill to the destination. The thought that I can may be start waking crept…

I wanted to understand food in a real sense for some time now. I wanted to understand the core bio-mechanics behind food and subsequently make informed choices to optimize my day to day vitality and long term health. I came across a book called “Eat the Yolks” and i thought…

Flipkart & Choice of Adjacent Markets Core Thesis: Flipkart is relatively young business and indian e-commerce market is huge, complex and has limitless growth potential. Although Flipkart is the current market leader, it still has significant challenges to overcome (expand penetration in tier 2,3) and deep pocketed competitors. Given this, as a rule, I would like…