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Turning the page…

End of a vacation is a swell time to get reflective. In the last week, I made a short trip to Calcutta to meet an old friend, and then got to spend a lot of time just existing, around the wife and the dog. In these days gone by, a lot of “best of decade” content came at me from all sides — Google…

“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.” — Henry David Thoreau

Remember these 3 Ps at an early stage Product Startup

Let there be love, not hate

Of late it’s been a crazy world,

Too many pigs rolling in the mud.

They oink, they scream, they wag their tongues,

On all things cherished, they are hurling dung.

*Written completely with dictation – had to make less than 10 edits in the whole blog after talking!*

I am going to try and write this blog just with my voice. Sound recognition has been getting very strong of late. I was using voice today to ask maps for directions and was pretty surprised, pleasantly so, with a smooth…

The media is always selling the flavour of the season. Of late, it’s been startups.

Advertisements consistently feature young people working in startups. Successful. Enjoying their work. Living it up with trek colleagues. Making more money than they can spend, hence always living the good life.

Television soon becomes a need.

I have had no cable for the last one year. Six months ago, I got Netflix. I pay less than what I used to for cable, and the programming quality is far, far superior. Plus I can watch it anywhere, anytime. Which means I can switch on a show in my living room, and take it to the bathroom when…

Was thinking today about all the ups and downs life makes you experience in a day. I guess the trick is to maintain some degree of equanimity through it all – adversity should not derail you, neither should success elevate you to cloud nine.

Brought back to memory lines from my favourite poet Gulzar :