Plato’s chariot allegory

Back in the day, when people still used chariots, the chariots would often be powered by two, or even four horses. But the most common was to have two horses pulling the chariot.

And Plato had this analogy to draw from them, “The charioteer of the human soul…

The Himalayan Miscalculation

When Mahatma Gandhi returned to India, he began to implement a strategy of civil disobedience similar to what he had done successfully in his campaigns in South Africa. He would later call this his Himalayan miscalculation. “Before a people could be fit for offering civil…

The weekly checkpoint

If you work at a company, it is likely that you have a 1:1 meeting with your manager once in a week. This serves as a weekly checkpoint for the manager to understand how her employees are doing, what’s bothering them, what’s keeping them excited, etc. These meetings act as a window into…

Stalling on decisions

We tend to stall on making big decisions. Especially the important ones that are harder to make. And this puts us in a place where we don’t move forward.

The top leaders are known for being decisive and taking action.

Absorbing barriers

Absorbing barriers, are points that once you reach them, there is no future activity (or past activity). For instance, the big bang is an absorbing barrier, as there is no way to know what was before the big bang based on everything that we know about what came after. For whatever version of…

Understanding karma

The concept of karma is quite poplar and has many interpretations. However, all the interpretations have one thing in common. And that is the effect of past actions on our future selves.

Some people interpret the timelines for past, present and future as entire…

Uncomfortable questions

How comfortable are you in asking uncomfortable questions?

That sounds like an oxymoron, but it isn’t. I have a spectrum when it comes to how comfortable I am asking uncomfortable questions ranging from ‘not comfortable at all’ to ‘it comes naturally to me’.

Three kinds of learning

There are three types of learning. Learning facts, learning processes and learning behaviours.

Learning facts is the most straight-forward of the three. There are definitive answers to questions and there is no nuance or context. No matter who looks at it, the…

Keep calm and do your thing

I came across this on Brad Feld’s newsletter and have since been sharing it with everyone I speak to about the whole Coronavirus situation. It is only apt that I share it with you too. Here are words written in 1948 by CS Lewis that ring very true today as well.

The story behind the numbers

Working as a PM involves working with a lot of data. So, it is easy to get sucked into the numbers and ignore…