We are in the 6th month of the year!
2019 is getting close to the halfway mark. This seems to be a perfect time to reflect on where you wanted to be at the beginning of this year and where…

Do you have unfulfilled dreams?
Hobbies you want to pursue, new directions that you want to give to your career.
Then a passion project might be what you need.
A passion project is something you take up in spare time…

Another month, another experiment.
In May I decided to fix what I am putting in my body and deleted sugar and milk, two items I was overdosing on, from my diet.
I started the experiment on 6th May.
I…

It happens at two levels.
At a personal level due to lack of efficiency, discipline, focus, and experience.
And for bigger projects at a broader level due to lack of planning, coordination, and communication.
Procrastination is a big reason why…

Whenever you can pick a project that:
You ‘really’ want to do. Life is too short to waste on something that you are only half interested in.
You think you can do. You have the skillset or you are keen…

When we work on projects, we often struggle to meet deadlines.
This results in pressure and at times shoddy work.
There are situations when a deadline is forced upon you, but in many cases you yourself set the deadline. In…

There will be times when you’ll find yourselves on crossroads.
You may be in a job that you don’t hate yet but you have stopped liking.
You may have a startup you started building with hope and excitement but it…

Harry Stebbings was a teenager who was interested in venture capital. But there was one big problem. He had no connections and wasn’t qualified by a long shot. He didn’t even live in the US where some of the biggest…

We are constantly moving, working all the time.
Worried about gaps on our LinkedIn.
Ever so afraid of pauses, we fear to lose the security and our edge.
But gaps and pauses are an important part of growth. They are…

Today everyone is a creator. And, the creation is mostly public by default on your Facebook, Twitter or Instagram. All these social tools were created for sharing updates but for most of us, they have turned into a social contest…

When a spacecraft gets off of its path through space, it must be put back on the right path. Likewise in life, we need to change the course multiple times. Without this course correction, it is tough to sail through…

We need to ask this question often. If the answer is no, then you need to dig deeper. Why are you not having fun? Is it because you have not updated your skills or faced a new challenge in a…

When building a startup we primarily do two things. Solve problems and deal with people. Everything else is built around these and is intertwined. Most of the successes and failures also come through these so it is important that…

Being a boss is tough. You have to invest time over and above what do you day-to-day. Here are some notes based on personal experiences and conversations that if you are a boss currently or plan to be one soon.…

The general notion is that you need to burn the midnight oil to burn bright. But this might not be true. Here is what you can do to accomplish a lot in a standard eight hour work day. First things…