In 2009, when I was leaving McKinsey, I was working 12 to 16 hours on an average day. The pressure was such that for every hour that went by, I felt compelled to produce some output (typically PowerPoint slides) – otherwise, I would start feeling a mild panic. ...
Everybody goes through ups and downs but not everybody gets depressed. So what differentiates those who get depressed from those who don’t? While hereditary factors do play a role, the good news is that depression is not all genetics and destiny – there is a lot we...
In 2002, I was facing a crisis that I thought would sink my career. And it taught me the futility of worrying. At that time, I was serving as the Trivandrum City Police Commissioner. The problem started quite innocuously – about 200 tribals came down to Trivandrum and...
It has repaid me more than my super-expensive MBA, my electrical engineering degree, or pretty much anything useful I have done – I am talking about the craft of writing. For more than three years, writing on LinkedIn and Quora gave me the privilege of serving...
During my summer break after class 10th, I hit upon a treasure – the Air Force library in the unit where my father was posted. It is from the yellowed and brittle old pages of the books that I found there, that I first learned calculus, the history of Arab-Israel...
