by Rajan Singh | May 8, 2023 | LinkedIn Posts
When I entered the corporate world in the US after my stint in the Indian Civil Services, I heard this weird notion called ‘paying your dues.’ Apparently, the grunt work and suffering at the beginning of your career earn you the ‘right to live well’ when you are...
by Rajan Singh | May 8, 2023 | 2023, Newsletter
During my days at McKinsey, I once asked a retired senior partner about life before PowerPoint. How did they make presentations to clients? He said that they used to create presentations on big chart papers using felt-tip pens. They would have to write in big font,...
by Rajan Singh | May 5, 2023 | LinkedIn Posts
The fish packet vanished from right in front of my eyes — how the hell did that happen, I wondered! This happened a few months ago: Sitting in my living room, as I was intently working on my blog, the fish delivery guy rang the doorbell. I absent-mindedly...
by Rajan Singh | May 4, 2023 | LinkedIn Posts
In week-2 of the 1st semester at IIT Kanpur, I got my first big life shock – the physics quiz. This quiz was pretty nasty: An ant was supposedly crawling on a rotating disc and we were expected to figure out its motion in polar coordinates, or something like...
by Rajan Singh | May 3, 2023 | LinkedIn Posts
20 years after we first met, I ran into Mr. Michael Siromani, a retired IAS officer, under curious circumstances — he was collecting roadside weeds in a plastic pouch. After the initial greetings, seeing a quizzical look on my face, he explained, “These are...
