It has been 152 days since I published anything here. Not because of lack of subject matter, but life just moved too fast. A lot of major and minor things happened, so let’s first get the recap out of the way. We are in a new year. Happy 2024. 2023 was transformative beyond expectation. Hope…
In the grand world of startups and venture capitalism, there’s a term that’s thrown around with the same casualness as confetti at a New Year’s party: Moats. Ah, the revered moat! The watery ring that once protected castles from marauding invaders. Today, it’s the metaphorical barrier businesses build to keep competitors at bay. But here’s…
Very rarely in your life, you meet people who have the capability to think with you, and more rarely do you get an opportunity to work with them, spend most of your waking time having fun. (Cause with this set, work feels like fun) You really cannot make it happen yourself. It happens. And while…
Everyone seems to be doing a yearly app for me. What a sweet gesture. Reminded me of doing one myself, from everythig that I remember. So here we go. First, lets take stock.. (from 2021 review) 2022 came with its own set of learnings and challenges. Things looked bleak in the first 3 months of the year.…
This blog describes my indie hacking journey and how we conceptualised, built and sold what started as a small side project all in a cycle of 12 months. It definitely feels like more than that. Serendipity It’s a story of serendipity through and through. In September 2021 I was itching to build something. The only…
The Internet is expanding. It is increasing its influence not just in the different services it offers and the category of reels it has on it. It is influencing the places we visit, the courses we enrol in, the food we consume, the jobs we take and the stories we believe. With its expanding reach,…
It’s going to be 3 years of doing product very soon. Time hasn’t really flown, it never does in PM-ing :P, but it hasn’t been a drag. I am not publishing this as a guide on how to be a good PM, frameworks to get into PM, etc. Why? Because there are much better and…
A topic that has kept me on my toes and my brain on a dose for a long, long time now. I am always scared to write about happiness as it is really tough to ascertain whether I have enough context to put thoughts into words. But like everything else, this needs to be done.…
Recently read a great blog on managing expectations for a happy reality from the legendary Morgan Housel which can be found here: https://collabfund.com/blog/expectations-and-reality/ The tl;dr on the link above is simply captured in this quote: The first rule of a happy life is low expectations. If you have unrealistic expectations you’re going to be miserable…
Every BITSian’s day, I follow a ritual. I open up my bits mail drive and deep dive into nostalgia pleasure. I plug in my 2 TB hard drive fill it up to the brim with content from DC and see the immaculate organisation of media that I might never watch. And lastly, I watch the…
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