Why Attend Conferences
I am writing this perched over a makeshift work place: a table in front of a bed. I am in Islamabad right now, for the…
Category: Entrepreneurship
Journey of a Thousand Miles begins with THIS
Journey of a thousand miles… Someone somewhere is baking a cake for the first time. The cake comes out OK: it’s eatable. But it tastes…
Job, Career or a Calling
There are three ways to look at our work. Either we think it’s a job, it’s a career, or we think it is our calling.…
The Job and The Struggle
Recently we talked about identifying our job. We also saw how we can ritualize the work: show up everyday for our job. My job is…
The Milk Distribution Case Study is now Live!
After weeks upon weeks of writing, the case study is now ready! Alhumdulillah. Click here to read the sales page (and if you can find this useful,…
The New Language of Starting A Business
He was leaving the next day and I hadn’t visited him yet. The night before his flight back to San Franscisco, I joined him at…
Acknowledgments and Your Invisible Team
I am re-re-re-reading The Lean Startup as I am preparing a workshop on business growth. I noticed the Acknowledgments section which I had of course…
The Pull of Work
I have been paying attention to my hobbies lately. This has seen me work like never before. For the very first time in my life,…
Are you Paying Attention To Your Hobbies?
We are trained to pay a lot of attention to our “work”. Work is sacred. But here’s an interesting experiment: look up the big events…
Finding Giants
For my 3 year old daughter I’m a giant. At the zoo, when I lift her up and place her on my shoulders, her world…