by Rajan Singh | May 24, 2023 | LinkedIn Posts
One fine day in 2012, when I quit my job, the monthly SMS stopped — no more salary updates saying ‘Rs XYZ has been credited to your bank account.’ No more business class flights. No more business cards. In fact, on the 1st of every month, I was the one writing...
by Rajan Singh | May 23, 2023 | LinkedIn Posts
When I left my last job to do a startup, I was in a hurry — as if it was a race against time. Foolishly assuming that VC funding was the only way, I felt that I had to quickly build a prototype and raise a seed round. Then show traction and do Series A, B, C, D,...
by Rajan Singh | May 22, 2023 | LinkedIn Posts
When I decided to write the Civil Services, I uncomplainingly slogged for 7 months. It was certainly not pleasurable in the normal sense and yet I was super-motivated. We often hear that humans are ONLY motivated to do pleasurable things — it is plain wrong....
by Rajan Singh | May 19, 2023 | 2023, Newsletter
If you have ever meditated, you have seen the devil – none other than your mind. It just won’t sit still. You want to focus on your breath. Yet, it will do anything but that. The mind keeps getting distracted by thoughts and daydreams. You bring it back and in no...
by Rajan Singh | May 19, 2023 | LinkedIn Posts
A few years ago, in my startup, we were building a tech platform that was performing horribly. The screens would take forever to load — clearly, the algorithms were poorly written. Though we had experienced engineers, we did not have the funding to hire very...
