Archive for the ‘Thoughts’ Category

The Dip

How does it feel to be Andy Dufresne when he is sentenced to Shawshank? How does it feel to be Chris Gardner when he loses his last bit of money to the government?
I don’t know if I can say “I know how it feels to be him”. But I sure have seen something close to [...]


Took a break

I just did a reboot by not blogging for 3 weeks and it feels fresh. Extrapolating this to other forms of communication, does it help if

you stay away from the mobile phone for a day?
you stay away from the Internet for a couple of days?
you refrain from talking entirely for a day? (A bit extreme [...]


Policies going waste

I went to a retail mall today and bought some products. I reached the bill counter and noticed they had hung some cloth bags (with the mall’s brand name) for customers to purchase. I must say, the bags very really cheap. The most probable explanation to this was so that at least a few customers [...]


Startup chat

My friend, Sunil and I chat often on startups. The discussions have always been useful and interesting to me. These might be interesting read for you too.

S: When you are starting up, always ensure you have enough liquidity. Make your plans based on cashflow. The rest of the plan will start falling in place. If [...]


Story

We all love stories. Kurt Vonnegut explained this beautifully (as written by Derek Sivers).
People have been hearing fantastic stories since time began. The problem is, they think life is supposed to be like the stories.

Isn’t it then obvious why we are always impressed by brands which have a story. The Infosys brand has a story. [...]