Notes to myself When misery strikes, it brings its family along too. Prep for a long haul. Illustration - Dark disk went crashing taking down a few years of work. No cloud or hard disk back up.

Want to see a Miracle? Be the Miracle. - Morgan God Freeman in Bruce Almighty #quotes

Your new life comes at a cost. Most certainly, the cost you end up paying is the old one. Brianna Wiest #notestomyself #quote

What we know is a drop What we don't know is an ocean

How's it going in 2025? #Reading #readlist #BookTwitter #booklovers #booktwt

How's it going? The 2025 read list

मोबाइल टावर का डर, हकीकत क्या है? क्या मोबाइल टावर से कैंसर होता है? टावर के पास घर... डरें नहीं, जानें सच मोबाइल टावर से खतरा या गलतफहमी? रेडिएशन का डर: फैक्ट जानिए, भ्रम मिटाइए #ConsumerIsKing में देखिए खास चर्चा #CIK Kavita Thapliyal/कविता थपलियाल Manas Ganguly

Another aviation disaster - another #Boeing!! Oct 2018 - Lion Air JT 610. Kills 181. Mar 2019 - Ethiopian Flight 302. Kills 157. Jan 2025 - Alaskan Air 1282 door blow out. Jun 2025 - Air India Dreamliner AI171.120 dead. Many coincidences make a pattern. #planecrash #Boeing 787

Dear Air India, Your loyalty program is like a black hole—points go in, nothing ever comes out. Flights flown: ✔️ Points credited: ❌ “Pending” for eternity… until they quietly expire. Loyalty deserves better. Screenshots attached. Care to respond? #FlyingReturns #AirIndiaFail

#Earthquake! Quite a strong one. There was a rumble sound.

“The problem in our country isn’t with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451

The biggest startup killer isn’t competition. Not even lack of funding. It’s credit receivables. 💀 Here’s a run down of my 10 year experience at my start up about #Credit and #Startups (1/n) #StartupStruggles #CashIsKing #LatePayments #FounderLife #RealTalk

Signed up a large customer? Here's how things start going south. When you extend credit, you’re not just selling a service. You’re giving your client a loan — interest-free. And you're bleeding runway while they delay payment. 2/n #StartupStruggles #CashIsKing #LatePayments

Startups run on cash, not invoices. A ₹100 lakh invoice that gets paid in 90 days is a trap unless you’re funded like a bank. Delayed payments lead to: Cash flow crises Unpaid team or vendors Growth stalls Founders chasing payments instead of building 3/n #StartupLife #CashFlow

The illusion of growth from booked revenue is deadly. Looks good on a pitch deck. Kills you in real life. It's a mirage if the money hasn't hit your account. Unfortunately the dirty laundry of business. 4/n #StartupStruggles #CashIsKing #LatePayments #FounderLife #RealTalk

My list of bad debtors includes + Two fortune 100 retails + A significant pension fund + A top 5 asset management real estate firm + An IT outsourcing giant + One of the big 4 audit companies Think you are smart & reasonable? Check again on such deals. 5/n #StartupStruggles

How to Protect Your Startup Short payment terms (15–30 days) Milestone-based billing Avoid red-flag clients Only 3 things that have worked for me Don't imagine that the Ministry will help you. There are laws and there are work arounds.. (6/n) #StartupStruggles #CashIsKing

Concluding remarks - Revenue is vanity - Profit is opinion + Cash is reality () Protect it. Guard it. Or risk your startup dying from delayed payments. (7/7) #StartupStruggles #CashIsKing #LatePayments #FounderLife #RealTalk

Split coaching structure? Different coaches for white ball and red ball coaches? #IndianCricket #GautamGambhir #BCCI