Experience is just an opportunity to learn

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...

Pleasure of life

During the time we spent in terrorism-affected North-East (as part of the IPS training), you couldn’t step out without at least three machine-gun mounted vehicles, and everyone was armed with AK-47 rifles — such was the security threat. After that, when I landed...

Truth is an assumption

I have lost track of the late nights I have done in my past life but here is the funny thing — whenever I had a constraint, e.g., I had to go out for a dinner, say at 8 pm, I would somehow find that laser-focus in the afternoon and wrap up everything on time. It...

Peace of mind

During my stint with McKinsey, I was going through a period of intense stress — my family moved back to India and I was all alone in the US. I could have kept pushing myself to the breaking point. Or I could take a break. So I took a break — for a week....