Bloganuary – Day 10

Daily writing promptDescribe an item you were incredibly attached to as a youth. What became of it?View all responses It will sound really weird, but growing up, I was most attached to my pen. I am chuckling as I begin to write this because it was not any special pen. In fact, it was a … Continue reading Bloganuary – Day 10 →

Bloganuary – Day 9

Daily writing promptWhat is your mission?View all responses I grew up an ambitious person. I have talked more about my ambition in a previous post before, but I love context so I will elaborate a bit more. Growing up in an income-constrained family in a tier 3 city in a not-so-developed part of India, I … Continue reading Bloganuary – Day 9 →

Bloganuary – Day 5

Daily writing promptDo you spend more time thinking about the future or the past? Why?View all responses I thought I had a very cut-and-dry answer to this. My instinctive answer to this was: I definitely spend more time thinking about the future than dwelling on the past. For the simple reason that I cannot change … Continue reading Bloganuary – Day 5 →

Bloganuary – Day 4

Daily writing promptWhat is the greatest gift someone could give you?View all responses Their approval? Just kidding. Or am I? Let me take a quasi-analytical approach to this question. I define gift as anything that provides me value without me having to pay any cost for it. It doesn't exclude gifts from relationships and so … Continue reading Bloganuary – Day 4 →

Bloganuary – Day 3

Daily writing promptWhat colleges have you attended?View all responses This is a kind of prompt that isn't really helpful to me at all. Prompts like these are harder to write for me, because in any real-life situation where by the way, this is a very legitimate conversation starter, I would end up with a factual … Continue reading Bloganuary – Day 3 →

Bloganuary: Day 2

Do you play in your daily life? What says “playtime” to you? With an intent to write a lot more this year, I am diving head-first into this Bloganuary trend. Let's see how long I can keep this up. Oh, this one is fun. If you ask this question to people I know, they'll lose … Continue reading Bloganuary: Day 2 →

Action Goals: What Guitar Lessons Have Taught Me About Goal-Setting At Work

I bought my first serious guitar in 2017. After about a year of dabbling with guitar on my own, learning chords and songs from YouTube lessons and other paid courses online, I started guitar lessons with a guitar instructor. Since then, and especially with my latest guitar instructor, I have picked up and honed a … Continue reading Action Goals: What Guitar Lessons Have Taught Me About Goal-Setting At Work →

Getting into product marketing

In 2019, I quit my job in ad tech to try my hands at a start-up. We managed to get a YCombinator interview and failed at the last step, but that was pretty much the high point of the short-lived attempt. It was too early to have figured out a revenue model. Some of our … Continue reading Getting into product marketing →

Ambition and Growing Up

I was an ambitious person growing up. When I was 15 years old, I used to be excited about train rides. Not because of the journey or the destination. But because every time I was at a railway station, my father would agree - more readily than usual - to buying me stuff to read. … Continue reading Ambition and Growing Up →

Uncertainty

There are uncertain things one can feel okay about. And then there are those that induce a month’s worth of anxiety in a day. House-hunting is definitely the latter. You see, I moved from Bangalore to London only two weeks back. And in those two weeks, I have spent 10 days in mandatory isolation, trying … Continue reading Uncertainty →