> cleared R1 for ISB YLP (deferred MBA) > had all my SOPs ready for MBA/MIM outside India > was scoring 750-760 in GMAT mocks > had a joining offer from consulting firms left it all because i couldnt imagine myself working my ass off 9-5 for all my life. raising ipad kids. having to ask permission from boss to take someone to hospital or kids to PTM. saw people with prestigious degrees also just working paychecks to paychecks. nothing made sense. so i did what any retard would do. start from scratch again. no connections. no friends. no hand to hold. all alone in a new city by myself. i dont regret anything in past 6 months. no matter how bumpy the ride has been. still believe, my life would have been easier, otherwise but my soul would have died.

call me cracker, the way i crack drishtibution

me once matiks hits IPO

i was listening to robert greene yesterday and he said something that stuck with me, how having toxic bosses all his life helped him write 48 laws of power. it made me pause. i realized i’ve always chased suffering. not because i enjoy it, but because i want to understand it. i’ve explored it through spirituality and self-growth. ram dass said, “suffering is grace.” goggins and jocko say it differently, but mean the same: pain sharpens you. in my life, whenever things feel too complacent, too flat, i seek challenges that break me down again. that’s why i don’t vent or complain. I KNOW I CAN GET OUT ANYTIME, but in the moment i want to face the darkness fully. my darkest periods are when i feel closest to god. suffering strips away everything fake, makes me grateful for the good times, and keeps my ego in check. for me, putting myself in situations where i suffer feels like the highest form of agency. every time, the ego cracks a little more. every time, i walk out freer.

the hardest thing i had to learn at an early stage startup was never the skill, but the mindset. it doesn’t matter if you fail 99 times. what matters is running 100 experiments fast because the 1 that works will pay for everything else. we pulled off things we didn’t think possible. launching campaigns in a day. hosting bangalore’s most viral party overnight. when you have the right team, everything is figureoutable. nothing is good or bad unless the data says so. millions of impressions mean nothing if users don’t sign up. ideas are cheap. execution is priceless. you’re not paid to yap strategy. you’re paid to get things done. so just do. but do it with structure. moving fast feels great until you spiral, forget what you did, and can’t even measure effort vs. impact.

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Drishtibution book recommendations: > the alchemist: story about following your dreams > the let them theory by mel robbins > 48 laws of power > mastery: how the greats actually got great; deliberate practice; the long game > tuesdays with morrie: a small book about what matters at the end > the secret: law-of-attraction > bhagvad gita > animal farm > the elements of style: how to be better writer with taste > hacking growth: for the growth-experiment engine behind breakout startups > unseen: zomato story > can't hurt me by david goggins > meditations: marcus aurelius' journal > on the shortness of life: seneca's stoic essay arguing we're not given a short life, we waste a long one > behave: sapolsky on why humans do what they do, from neurons to culture > the creative act by rick rubin

How to define a good question: > It is specific to a situation. > When they come from active listening. > Good questions are contextual. > They are relevant to what is happening right in front of you. >Make the other side think and reflect.

you can't win against someone who already has a predefined vision and worldview.

numbers only go up

ratio!

a lot can happen in a day

hi substack's team, how are you planning to enable indian creators monetize when stripe isn't even availbale in india?? i opted for substack over @beehiiv for discoverability but what do i do with that when i can't monetize easily. now i am 100% switching there cuz atleast i can have playto pay there @chrisbest, @jairajs89 and @hamishmckenzie

some brilliant articles i read on substack that really changes ur perspective on life!!!!!

ou basically need to be unemployed to keep up with all this AI stuff.

1. Make it normal to contact exceptional people 2. Learn how to buy items for the maximum return 3. Most of the advice given before 2000 is... Irrelevant 4. Everything in YOUR life compounds (positive and negative) 5. Smile, nod, and agree 6. Feed the egos to get the information you want 7. You can tell everything about someone from the questions they ask you 8. Resistance signals what matters the most 9. Your ability to reinvent determines a big % of your success 10. Split your friend groups by category 11. Write everything down (yes... everything) 12. Ideal day framework (and life framework) 13. Free things are the best in life

finished reading Tuesday's with Morrie. Life will never be the same again.

if you start reading books again. you will feel at least a little better. i promise