Say Something. Do Something {else}. Feel Something {else}. Think Something {else}. Be Something {else}. Appraisal season is here in Bangalore. The cloaks are bigger than ever. Daggers are being prepared to be dealt on the review meeting room’s table. Impacts are being discussed. Thank god I don’t have to do it yet. The clockwork of…
September 27th, 2024. There’s something peculiar about how certain dates tattoo themselves onto your consciousness. They become more than just another Friday – they transform into these invisible thresholds between who you were and who you become. That particular TGIF evening decided to rewrite not just our life’s trajectory, but our entire understanding of what…
It has been 152 days since I published anything here. Not because of lack of subject matter, but life just moved too fast. A lot of major and minor things happened, so let’s first get the recap out of the way. We are in a new year. Happy 2024. 2023 was transformative beyond expectation. Hope…
In the grand world of startups and venture capitalism, there’s a term that’s thrown around with the same casualness as confetti at a New Year’s party: Moats. Ah, the revered moat! The watery ring that once protected castles from marauding invaders. Today, it’s the metaphorical barrier businesses build to keep competitors at bay. But here’s…
Very rarely in your life, you meet people who have the capability to think with you, and more rarely do you get an opportunity to work with them, spend most of your waking time having fun. (Cause with this set, work feels like fun) You really cannot make it happen yourself. It happens. And while…
Everyone seems to be doing a yearly app for me. What a sweet gesture. Reminded me of doing one myself, from everythig that I remember. So here we go. First, lets take stock.. (from 2021 review) 2022 came with its own set of learnings and challenges. Things looked bleak in the first 3 months of the year.…
This blog describes my indie hacking journey and how we conceptualised, built and sold what started as a small side project all in a cycle of 12 months. It definitely feels like more than that. Serendipity It’s a story of serendipity through and through. In September 2021 I was itching to build something. The only…
Recently read a great blog on managing expectations for a happy reality from the legendary Morgan Housel which can be found here: https://collabfund.com/blog/expectations-and-reality/ The tl;dr on the link above is simply captured in this quote: The first rule of a happy life is low expectations. If you have unrealistic expectations you’re going to be miserable…
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