I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else
This story reflects so much that is true. Taking a bet on yourself is hard. Maybe for all. But definitely so for a woman Especially if you are raised in a culture that values topping the classes and fearing failure. I see this in how I function too – it is extremely hard for me …
Ask better questions “How do I get into analytics?” “What should I do next?” I get a lot of such questions during my mentoring sessions. Unless one knows you personally, these are questions that don’t yield much value. These are what Reid Hoffman called ‘Blue Sky questions’. “What are the skills you gauge in business …
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Why do folks not respond to cold DMs? Cold DM 101 You want to reach out to someone you don’t know. Maybe you seek a referral, mentoring or want to learn more about their journey. You type Hi and wait for a response. And get radio silence. Lets deconstruct how you can engage better with …
Making reaching out to folks on social media work Read More »
Career Chats with Ranjani and Vignesh Vignesh and I share very few interests – one of it is mentoring 🙂 We talk a lot about common themes that we hear during our respective sessions. A lot of those questions are relevant to a larger audience – how do I get promoted, pursuing passion areas, conflict …
Why do fresh produce at source cost 1/10 the prices we pay in cities? We spend our summer vacations at our uncle’s farm in a rural village in the South of India. A lot of farmers worked the lands, for what seemed to me, like meagre returns. Their teenage girls, as young as myself at …
Full Stack Agricultural services to farmers – DeHaat Read More »
The first thing that struck me when I spoke to Kapil was his downright humility and sense of self reflection – a trait I hugely value in a leader. So much so that by the end of the 30 mins, we were chatting about mental health impact on women, almost as if I knew him …
Episode 5 : On Scaling effectively and influencing without authority Read More »
Turning discarded temple flowers into incense and vegan leather, whilst providing hundreds of jobs for local women My grand mom was quite a religious woman. On days like Diwali or Krishna Janmastami, her house came alive in colors. With orange and yellow marigolds at every door and jasmine in threads in everyones’ hair. But then, …
There are 70 days left to end the year. Are there goals you are yet to achieve? Boxing is something I hugely enjoyed as part of my fitness goals. Especially when it was against the spouse 🙂 Thanks to the excessive lifting though, I had an abdominal hernia and then COVID happened, throwing a spanner …
Do you have a daily goal for the rest of the year? Read More »
X-to-X trends happening in AI is quite exciting. After text to image, here is text to video editing Stable Diffusion is a new text-to-image generator launched earlier in August, 2022. Patrick Esser, research scientist at Runway tweeted recently about Stable Diffusion coming together with Runway for text-to-video-editing soon I wonder if our rapid progress in this …
‘How to build a happy life’ is a recent podcast find that I am loving! “In our pursuit of a happy life, we build, we structure, and we plan. Often, we follow conventional wisdom and strategize. But what happens when our plans fall through and expectations don’t meet reality—when the things that should make us …
Podcast Recommendations – How to build a happy life Read More »