Tony Hsieh and Zappos
Tony Hsieh is the CEO of Zappos Inc. - the online shoe and clothing company that was bought by Amazon in 2009. This blog post is about my learnings from him on In...
Do Things That Don't Scale
Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia were part of the YCombinator program in 2009 with a crazy idea of renting out the apartment to strangers. They hadn’t done well until ...
Startup Culture
Rubrik, one of the fastest growing SaaS companies, have defined a set of cultural values for their employees to live by and they call it RIVET.
Public Speaking Anxiety
An effective strategy to deal with any problem is to find the root cause of the problem and try to fix it with simple and easy solutions. In the book Speaking up ...
A Guide To Milford Track
The Milford Track, regarded by many as the finest walk in the world, is located amidst the temperate rain-forests in the Fiordland National Park in the South Isla...
Attitude
If I ever play one of the What is the first word that comes to your mind? games, I’d say attitude for Rafael Nadal and talent for Roger Federer. The reason is tha...
Why Blog
It’s been a while since I’ve blogged. While there are many excuses to convince myself, the simple truth is that I haven’t forced myself to stare at a computer scr...
Zoom In, Zoom Out
Imagine having a DSLR camera to click a wide landscape photo. While you zoom in to identify objects and understand them, you zoom out (or look away from the camer...
Building Non-Addictive Products
Imagine a future where there is a right amount of consumption for the technical products we use. Just like a doctor would prescribe you to take Paracetamol twice ...