One experience taught me the need of a cofounder more than anything else. After the previous two ideas, I’d taken a break from exploring side ideas. Post that, one idea came coming back to me again and again. Data analysis was of course a regular part of work, and I wanted our

These days, every morning I wake up, I have one phrase in my head - “staying power”. Staying power is the ability to persist through adversity. But where does it come from? You can watch a lot of motivational videos daily and while that may give some temporary hits, that is not

Sage advice from Sam Zell:

Shower thought I had recently - “Assumption is the death of curiosity.” The most curious people I’ve met never assume, they ask. If you assume that things would be a certain way, you are less inclined to pursue a thing to its depth. They start with asking dumb questions, that

I was looking at the bestseller sections recently and it’s baffling to me why most of that is self-help. This is despite knowing that most self-help advice is actually bullshit. Why do so many people keep consuming it though. I might have a hunch. Most self-help advice is

The right choice is the earnest choice made right with time. You choose things based on intrinsic motivators and stay with them long enough so they look right eventually. Jobs was right. You can only connect the dots backward. But you can plant these dots today.

It took me pretty late in life to realize one powerful thing: “How you do one thing is how you do everything.” The core insight here is applying system thinking to change complex integrated systems. Notes: