Issue 10 July 26th 2025 The Actions & Choices we make are not random ↓ My wife and I love playing board games and we try to play atleast once every other day. We have stopped buying new games to our collection for some time now. But we bucked that trend last week on our visit to our favorite board game store in Oxford. We bought a new game called Harmonies. It has multiple board game mechanics but one part is also managing resources to build specific patterns to earn points. Now, the...
10 days ago • 3 min read
Issue 9 July 19th 2025 You just need to make something that no one else did - Because it came from you ↓ Music is the one form of art that I loved learning. I used to play the keyboard, and I could very easily play the tune after hearing it once. While I’m impartial with my appreciation of good music and artists, A.R. Rahman is an artist I respect. His jingles—specifically the one for Titan Watches—are one of the most natural tunes to play. It always felt like that music was just in the air,...
17 days ago • 4 min read
Issue 8 July 12th 2025 Doing it for the wrong reasons makes it feel hard ↓ It was one of those late Friday work calls where once all work related discussions was done, we started with the casual “Looking forward to the weekend” conversations. One colleague, who has a 10-year-old child, said she was actually looking forward to the weekend being over. They’d been planning a theme park trip for months and her son was excited — but it happened to fall right in the middle of a brutal heatwave in...
24 days ago • 4 min read
Issue 7 July 5th 2025 Rethinking ambition in a world that rewards scale ↓ I have always wanted to own my own business. Why? I have no clue. My dad and some relatives say, “Oh it runs in our blood. We don’t like to work under someone.” I don’t agree on this statement. While it is true you might make decisions on your own terms, you are still somehow controlled by your clients. Your client becomes your boss. I have often wondered if it is the social media glorification of entrepreneurship and...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
Issue 6 June 28th 2025 Hint: It is not about the money!! ↓ I’m a big fan of comedians who also make you think. Louis C.K., Ricky Gervais, Trevor Noah from the West and late legends like M.R. Radha & Vivek closer to home. They have a unique take on life and often find significance in the trivial of things. Jimmy Carr is one such comedian I admire along those lines. His stand-up shows normally transition into crowd work where the audience throw questions at him and he comes back with witty...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
Issue 5 June 20th 2025 Be Thankful for what didn't go as planned!! ↓ I was recently reading about a passenger’s hassling experience at the airport. She was stuck in traffic and was able to reach the airport just minutes before the flight was about to depart. Eventually, she was denied boarding as check-in was closed, the boarding was already complete, and there was no way they could let her in. She said that her repeated requests were denied by airline officials and she was forced to return....
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
Issue 4 June 12th 2025 The life you want to lead should define your Work, Not the other way around!! ↓ I recently bumped into a friend who was out with his in-laws visiting from India. I asked them if they were enjoying their trip and remarked on how nice it must be to take some time off. While they both said they were glad to spend time with their daughter, her father—who runs his own business—laughed and said it didn’t really feel like time off. One of his clients had even asked, “How can...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
Issue 3 May 29th 2025 Discipline isn't about being rigidly consistent. It knowing Why you care ↓ Not failing an exam was a virtual badge of honour I wore proudly until my 10th grade at school. Even the best students eventually had to face the grueling English exams of Mr. Michael Vernum, which typically had a 15% pass rate in internal tests. The highest mark one could expect was usually around 50 out of 100. So yes, there was a reason I was so proud of never failing a single exam until then....
2 months ago • 3 min read
Issue 2 May 22nd 2025 The World doesn’t need another refined copy. It needs your singular one-off ↓ I recently saw a video of musician Pharell Williams visiting a music production class at NYU to critique student songs in 2016. Most students were understandably nervous—after all, Pharrell isn’t just a hitmaker; he’s one of the most respected creative minds in the world. One student, a young artist named Maggie Rogers, played her song, “Alaska.” Pharrell listened closely. When the track ended,...
3 months ago • 3 min read