by Rajan Singh | Feb 5, 2026 | LinkedIn Posts
Mid-career can be a dangerous place — you might become too expensive for the roles you can perform, and unwilling to take the roles you can get. This happens because aging is mandatory, but upskilling is optional. As we become older (‘senior’), in...
by Rajan Singh | Feb 4, 2026 | LinkedIn Posts
Before we graduated from college, our electrical engineering professor (I think it was Dr SS Prabhu) told us, “As you graduate, it is not enough to be technically competent — you also need a value system, without which, you are no better than a highly...
by Rajan Singh | Feb 3, 2026 | LinkedIn Posts
In my first startup, I outsourced my product development to a small IT services company. In the beginning, things seemed okay. But soon, I was struggling with product-market fit (aka, nobody wanted my product). Instead of staying laser-focused on solving that problem,...
by Rajan Singh | Feb 2, 2026 | LinkedIn Posts
One of my best friends in the Indian Police Service recently told me the story of his boss at a paramilitary organization, who used to tell his staff, “After 5 pm, I want all of you on the sports ground — nobody should be seen in the office.” So one...
by Rajan Singh | Jan 30, 2026 | LinkedIn Posts
About a decade ago, I was in Mussoorie (at Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration) during the training program for senior Civil Servants. During one of the sessions, a guest speaker gave a talk that was critical of the bureaucracy and suggested some...
