Many a times I have been in a situation where it was really hard to be myself or express myself for a sustained period of time in an environment - office, school or home. I find it’s really hard to change the environment whether I had the authority or
While talking or writing about any subject matter, I have an affinity to go in “sermon mode” making general suggestions on something that might be a very subjective opinion on a situation very specific to me. One of the reasons why I started writing this blog was to express what
One of the aspects of building an organisation, business, process, system or even individual habit is to carefully consider what the operational phase looks like. What I have come to realize is that the true nature of things is revealed in this generally dull, boring, prolonged operational phase. It’s
Being consistent is something that I struggle with. This is because I tend to look for deep motivation or an emotional/physical need to do something every time that I am supposed to do it. I do find it sometimes on the surface, sometimes digging deep, and sometimes by allowing
As I have attempted to get more self-aware through the years, one of the things that I keep thinking about is whether on any subject matter of my interest, for it’s key areas, I know enough to have an opinion or not? Objective assessments are there to help with
As I have grown in my career, what I see with myself and peers is that communication about my domain (tech) with others become challenging. More often than not, this is the case of me being the last/only person in the corporate hierarchy at the top who knows Tech
I used to have this idea of a karmic life where there was a limit to the amount of shit that one had to deal with in life. As I aged a bit, through my own experience and others, it seems to me now that’s not the case at
My ideas get rejected a lot. Sometimes by others, sometimes I myself reject them because of them not hitting the spot at a point in time. I believe that the rejection is not of the idea per se, but generally of its maturity. I think everyone has some unique perspective
While building communities and organizations, I tend to focus primarily on the structure, roles, direction and goals. One key thing that I find quite hard to do is to align the incentives of people across the group. And the alignment needs to be both short-term and long-term. I am not
While building anything of substantial value - whether it’s a system, asset or a team, I tend to make better decisions, if I am the one who owns the consequences for a substantial period of time. It’s not that for a project that I am in for a
A lot of decisions that I need to make, change as soon as I increase the time horizon during which I intend to own the consequences. I won't do the same job if I wanted to do it for 3 years, as compared to say a month. I
I have been lucky. Lucky that I had some degree of freedom to consciously choose what I want to do in my life for the next few years. But, with that freedom comes the question of identity. Who am I now and who should I be next? In my mid