
The One Certainty
“If you ever decide to gift that willow to someone, remember the man behind the wickets.”
– Jeff Dujon to Sunil Gavaskar when

“If you ever decide to gift that willow to someone, remember the man behind the wickets.”
– Jeff Dujon to Sunil Gavaskar when

Our story lit with borrowed powers
Rather, by what our spirits burned,
Embered in words, to us returned.
– Vikram Seth in An Equal Music

Utopia
Island where all becomes clear.
For all its charms, the island is uninhabited,
and the faint footprints scattered on

Grotesque figures in dimly lit windows,
Half broken, half forgotten objects;
Lurking in those hazy lights,
Looking with their dreary eyes,
At cabs lurching, men trudging by.

In 2022, Google earned USD 162 bn and Meta earned USD 114 bn from ads. This means significant talent in these companies is deployed to

Many things in life compound – skills, relationships, money etc. Money is the easiest to measure. But measurability is not the same as importance. Skills,

Focusing on a niche and reaching the top in it? Reaching the top 10% is easy. But getting to the top 0.1%? That is a

Consulting – Thinking Beyond First Order Effects – If a local area is devastated by floods destroying many houses, there will be a huge demand

In consulting interviews, we test for logical reasoning, insights, communication with case studies. Here I cover the logical reasoning part. Interviewees increasingly come with memorized frameworks.

We tend to believe that innovation is the key to market success. This is often untrue. The value may lie hidden and may not even