Your NO to things in life will take your farther than your YES. Energy is limited. Prioritise ruthlessly.

A lot of us in the corporate world who voluntarily overwork at the office, are just trying to fill a void in our lives. Finding meaningful hobbies and relationships or passion may help fill that void.

I used to measure the success of my week with the volume of work done. I now measure it in terms of fulfilling and happy moments spent. One such moment was catching up with old friend Prashant Dwivedi after ages. All the best mate.

If you are a Product Manager you should get comfortable with the "Two Inconvenient truths" by Marty Cagan - Half of our ideas won't work. - Most of the ideas will take several iterations before they deliver the necessary business value. Simple yet eye-opening.

A journey of thousand miles begins with a single step. Have the courage to start and the momentum will propel you forward.

The darling of Indian Saas startup scene. Congratulations Freshworks Inc Girish Mathrubootham Nivas Ravichandran

Good PMs are expert at navigating the current constraints in organisations and deliver results despite the constraints. Great PMs question the constraints and work to resolve them. They lead with impeccable courage and question everything.

When you are thinking emotionally you are preventing your brain to think logically. As PMs always be skeptical of the emotions and let data and user guide your rational decisions.

Fall in love with the problem.

“Our disturbances come only from our own opinions … everything that we see will change and no longer exist … the universe is change and life is opinion..” Marcus Aurelius

"The more you create, the more powerful you become. The more you consume, the more powerful others become." –James Clear Read this beautiful quote on James newsletter.

How to be good at anything ? Practice it over and over again to a point that it becomes your second nature. There is no shortcut, no other way.

SharkTank India is Bollywood meets SoftBank. Damn they made investing in startup so fun, full of drama and some amazing pitches. Love watching the show.

"Just because it didn’t work doesn’t mean it was the wrong choice. The world is full of probabilities, not certainties. Find a game where the probabilities favor you and keep taking shots." –James Clear

👋 At @square, we built a library that helps us write complex validation rule-sets in #Laravel We are open-sourcing it: say hello to Hyrule 🔥 github.com/square/laravel… 🧵 1/9

Small benefit of working in NY: I was complaining about how in Square you can't stack discounts, like if multiple people bring their own mug we'd have to ring them up separately. Customer behind her chimes in "I work for square, I'll email the head of that department for you."

Check out my latest article: A guide to PM interviews from an interviewer linkedin.com/pulse/guide-pm… via LinkedIn