Neediness

Mark Manson’s words on neediness is always a nice reminder.

“Neediness occurs when you place a higher priority on what others think of you than what you think of yourself.”

“Any time you alter your words or behavior to fit someone else’s needs rather than…

Throughput

There’s a delightful novel called The Phoenix Project which is a fictional story of a software firm, and brings out really well the workings of any such reasonably big firm.

Without giving away much, the plot compares delivery of software to the workings of a mechanical assembly…

Where’s your bad writing?

Recently, on a podcast episode, Tim Ferris, while interviewing Seth Godin, asked him for advice on how to overcome writer’s block and publish more articles (not necessarily in these words, but I paraphrase).

Change and learning

Change happens at the edges, and in increments.

Learning happens at the edges, and in increments.

If you try to change the mind of someone who is a staunch climate change denier to get them to think like a person who completely understands…

Neediness again

Yesterday, I wrote about neediness as it has been a hard hitting message to me personally.

Today, I came across a quote by Honore de Balzac, which manages to summarise in twenty words what I wrote in over two hundred.

“Nothing is a greater…

Pandering

When your own private information tells you to act in a certain way, but you act in a different way because that’s what you know your audience expects, you’re pandering to their wishes.

Employees do this (with their bosses). Politicians do this (with their constituents). And everyone…

Introducing Product Stories

When I first brainstormed starting a podcast, I came up with a whole bunch of ideas for what I could start a podcast on.

I then started brainstorming with Vikas, and we ended up with the idea for The Chishiki podcast, which we launched a few weeks ago…

Purpose-driven

I have worked for purpose-driven companies and I have known (and continue to) purpose-driven people.

And there are several lessons to learn from someone who is purpose-driven (person or company).