by Rajan Singh | Apr 10, 2025 | LinkedIn Posts
Years ago, I was involved in organizing the National Games in Trivandrum, where two people did a skydiving demo for the opening ceremony. In this insanely dangerous stunt, these parajumpers were to land in a stadium, inside a busy city. And once the parachutes opened,...
by Rajan Singh | Apr 9, 2025 | LinkedIn Posts
In 2008, I had a lunch-cum-job interview with a very successful New York-based fund manager, who had made hundreds of millions of dollars from investing. I asked him, “What has been the hardest part of your job?” He said, “There was a time when for...
by Rajan Singh | Apr 8, 2025 | LinkedIn Posts
A friend of mine was once interning with a major Wall Street bank. One day, on a Friday evening, his boss asked him to make a presentation and share it by Sunday, ensuring that his weekend was ruined. My friend did not understand the urgency but there was little he...
by Rajan Singh | Apr 7, 2025 | LinkedIn Posts
Conventional wisdom says: Prioritize tasks that are urgent AND important. No — this advice isn’t good enough. If something is urgent and important, it is called ‘firefighting.’ And firefighting destroys peace of mind. So you should be asking:...
by Rajan Singh | Apr 4, 2025 | LinkedIn Posts
About 20 years back, I stopped watching TV. It all started with this addiction to TV I had started developing in the early 2000s, when I would mindlessly switch on the TV after a stressful day at work. Soon, I started worrying about missing this or that episode, or...
