I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else
You don’t control you Luck But you can increase your Luck Surface Area “In philosophy, a razor is a principle or rule of thumb that allows one to eliminate unlikely explanations for a phenomenon, or avoid unnecessary actions” Of all the razors, this is one of my favourites. At any point in time, work towards …
There are always fires to put out and a never ending list of things to get done. Nothing is more frustrating than to sit in front of your laptop all day but feel like you haven’t accomplished anything. Whilst days and months roll by. A recent practice I have been adopting based on Matt Mochary‘s …
“In June 1944, Germany flew several raids on London. War experts plotted the position of each bomb as it fell and noticed one cluster near Regent’s Park, and another along the banks of the Thames. This clustering concerned them because it implied that the German military had designed a new bomb that was more accurate …
How do I become the CEO? ‘What got you here, won’t get you there’ is a brilliant book on the topic of scaling as a leader. The idea being, what helped you in your individual contributor journey may not be the same traits that could help you navigate the C suite So what qualities differentiates …
At times, straddling with all that I want to do feels like jujitsu Yet, this was an Executive course that was worth the effort Berkeley Exec Educations’ 8 week immersive online PM studio is one of those courses that justifies the weekends spent on course work Here are 5 key areas I took away from …
How to compete when you don’t have a winning start? We shifted into a new neighbourhood when I was in 5th or 6th grade. Thanks to my mom who worked with the state government, we were eligible to a nice housing quarters that came with a huge jackfruit-trees-laden backyard. It also happened to be near …
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Why everyone needs a personal moat to accelerate their career? One of my favourite newsletters is the Morning Brew Alex Lieberman, the founder recently did a podcast of the topic of building a personal moat What is a moat, you ask? A business moat is a key competitive advantage that sets a company apart from …
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Play the odds to your favour. Always. There are a handful of messages I get from strangers on LinkedIn each day. A majority of them drop a Hi and leave it at that. Others ask for what open roles are present in analytics. Some ask for how they can find a job. Some don’t follow-through …
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How can one differentiate oneself in Career and in life, I was asked, on a podcast I was recently on. Seth Godin answered this best in one of my favorite books called Linchpin, that I highly recommend. There is a village in China – Outside of Shenzen called Dafen. It is said that 60% of …
‘In one of Stephen King’s greatest books, 11/22/63, a young man named Jake discovers a time travel portal which leads back to 1958. Jake deduces that altering history is possible. However long he stays in the past, only two minutes go by in the present. He decides to live in the past until 1963 so …
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