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How to Know If Your Idea Is Real
Early in my startup days, I used to sometimes wonder -- am I doing something real or am I just fiddling around, fooling myself? How do I know this is not all in my head? The ONLY real way of knowing whether you are doing something real (and...
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Job-Hopping vs. Staying Long-Term
At an investment fund I worked with, one of my bosses (Victor Menezes) did something remarkable — after graduating from MIT’s MBA program, he never...
Choose a job that aligns with your life
When I decided to leave consulting and join private equity, my biggest consideration was not money — instead, I wanted my life back. I wanted to...
ChatGPT/Google Can’t Eliminate Human Understanding
Why do we need to remember things when everything is just one Google search away? (Or these days, one ChatGPT query away). In fact, this was the...
The Importance of Non-Urgent Stuff
Stop hoarding PDFs, podcasts, videos, e-books, and online courses. We already have enough. The problem is something else. Can you guess what? Our...
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Step-by-step guide to experience flow
Flow, the 'secret to happiness,' is closer than you think 🙂 Here is a step-by-step guide for experiencing flow (almost) every day. Quick recap: What is flow? It is such a deep immersion in a task that you lose track of everything, including the...
The Value of Knowledge Across Domains
I was once talking to a UX designer in Bangalore, who was supposed to be quite good at her craft. And she explained to me some nuances of UX design quite well. But when our discussion shifted to other social issues, she seemed quite lost. At one...
The Power of Analytical Thinking
As a consultant with McKinsey, one of my projects was to advise a Fortune 500 healthcare company on whether to launch a new service line. And here was the funny part -- the company had already done the study they hired us for! They had put two...
How to break phone addictions
Your smartphone is useful but dangerously addictive. And every day, we are sucked into it for hours on end not because we love it, but because we think we have no choice. We often assume that we only have two options: Give up our phones, OR Use the...