Do This to Live a Boring, Mediocre Life
Beginner’s Luck is the ultimate mistress, always there to seduce me into thinking I am good enough. You try something for the first time, and…
Category: Profession
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…
Simple, Not Easy
I recently had a discussion with Yasir Nisar over a cup of warm tea and hot samosas. Yes, tea and samosa. Yasir is a professional…
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…
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…
Some Thoughts (and one Rule) on Giving Advice
Why is it that others think they can tell you how to live your life? Or how to run your business? Or how to really…