by Rajan Singh | Jul 3, 2023 | LinkedIn Posts
When I was writing my MBA application essays for US B-Schools, I found myself in a fix. Throughout school and college, I hadn’t written even one page of half-decent prose. How would I write these highly demanding essays? Fortunately, Vinod Thomas, my friend and IPS...
by Rajan Singh | Jul 1, 2023 | 2023, Newsletter
When you consume information, the information consumes your attention. And between information and attention, the scarcer resource, unquestionably, is your attention. So optimize how you allocate your attention. For better or worse, we have an endless supply of blogs,...
by Rajan Singh | Jun 30, 2023 | LinkedIn Posts
All you have is 30,000 hours. That’s it. Today, there is a new ‘gold’ in town — no, it is not bitcoin. It is not oil. That is what Instagram, Facebook, and others are fighting for — our time and attention. Only we have the gold they need. Only...
by Rajan Singh | Jun 29, 2023 | LinkedIn Posts
One day during a finance class of Prof David Wessels at Wharton, suddenly, the classroom door flew open and a hefty guy entered with a cardboard box in his hand. The interrupted class sat in stunned silence — we were all staring at that guy. But without missing...
by Rajan Singh | Jun 28, 2023 | LinkedIn Posts
Two decades ago, I was sitting with a good friend and college senior who had recently relocated to Trivandrum after a PhD in the US. He was talking about how much he missed running and how moving back to India had disrupted that habit. I asked him, “Why not restart?...
