by Rajan Singh | Nov 6, 2024 | LinkedIn Posts
When Byju’s acquired White Hat Jr for $300 million, folks on LinkedIn went crazy. “Good Lord — how could someone create so much value in just 18 months?” Today, the company is losing more than Rs 1,000 crores a year. And I won’t even get...
by Rajan Singh | Nov 5, 2024 | LinkedIn Posts
Do you know that even the world’s top footballers have their superstitions? Superstitions are psychological defense mechanisms that give a sense of safety (albeit a misplaced one). Let us say a footballer plays a wonderful match, where he scores goal after goal....
by Rajan Singh | Nov 4, 2024 | LinkedIn Posts
Before I first landed on the IIT campus, I thought it would have a really glitzy atmosphere. After all, most professors had PhDs from US universities and would have seen a good life. But instead, I saw them all moving on bicycles, wearing shabby clothes and chappals....
by Rajan Singh | Nov 1, 2024 | LinkedIn Posts
This might surprise you. Do you know the one productivity hack that lowers our productivity and overwhelms us? Packing your calendar back-to-back with tasks and to-dos. I know it sounds quite ironic but let me explain using an analogy. Imagine that you want to...
by Rajan Singh | Oct 31, 2024 | LinkedIn Posts
Why should we meditate? If it was truly beneficial, would evolution have not predisposed us to do that? After all, our ancestors in Savannah surely never meditated and they did just fine. Then why should we? The problem with this logic is that evolution optimizes for...
