Stop Confusing Busyness With Real Work

You don’t walk into an annual performance appraisal meeting and boast — “I sent 20,000 emails last year.” You don’t flaunt the number of meetings you have attended. Because nobody cares about those things — these metrics are...

Conviction and Delusion in Entrepreneurship

1 year ago, I met a VC who had told me that my first startup idea won’t work. And you know what ultimately happened? He was right. Thankfully, when I met him this time, he did not remember that meeting. Nor did I remind him. 😊 But why did I not accept his...

Why Even Billionaires Go Broke

I know of billionaires who have gone broke. And here is why you should care about it. No billionaire has ever gone broke by consuming too much — after all, how many designer clothes or jewellery can you buy? Instead, the super-rich go broke by...

Choose Good People, Not Glamorous Projects

In my 4th year in college, we had to choose a professor to guide us for the BTech project. At that time, I had become very good friends with a young professor of electrical engineering, who was kind, generous, and brilliant. But his area of work was not glamorous. Had...