Posts from the careers category.
The Next MoveThere are people who seem to know where they are going.They have a plan for their career, a plan for their money, a plan for their children and, occasionally, a plan for what they will do after retirement.Then there are the rest of us.We make a plan.Something happens.We adjust.Something else happens.We adjust again.Years later, when someone asks how we got there, we tell the story bac...
Some books arrive with answers.Others arrive with a question that quietly follows you long after you’ve closed the final page.What if the greatest obstacle to your work isn’t the world around you — but the distance between who you are and who you could become?That is the conversation Manoj Chenthamarakshan begins in Aligned Work: Let the Higher Self Express Through You!It is a remarkably slim book...
There is a quiet assumption built into modern success stories: that one decisive moment changes everything. The promotion. The startup. The move abroad. The breakthrough. We love milestones because they give life a neat shape. Reality is rarely so accommodating. Most lives are altered not by dramatic turning points but by hundreds of small adjustments that only make sense in retrospect.That is the...
Some books arrive with noise. Big drama. Big tragedy. Big declarations about life. One Year by Sweta does something riskier. It quietly walks beside you like that exhausted colleague who waits near the office lift at 9:47 p.m., smiling weakly while pretending everything is manageable. And somewhere between those ordinary moments, the book slips under your skin.I started reading it late at night af...
मोड़ जो देखा था उसपे मुड़ जाते हम,तो नजाने कहाँ तक पहुँच पाते हम।If I had turned at that bend I saw,Who knows how far I would have reached.- Javed Akhtar, Gully BoyIt was late at night. I was lying in my bed, sobbing. My wife, 7 months pregnant, was consoling me. I had decided to shut down my startup of 3 years that day. We were expecting. I had to become serious and find myself a job. I had found...
The first thing I noticed while reading The Rise Within was not ambition. It was fatigue. The kind that settles quietly into a person after too many site meetings, too many delayed calls, too many mornings where your shoes carry yesterday’s dust into a new day. I was reading this book late at night with the balcony window slightly open, and at one point, the distant sound of construction work from...
Was listening to Bandeh by Indian ocean and sent these lines to a friendये अंधी चोट तेरीकभी की सूख जातीमगर अब पक चलेगीShe asked AI to interpret it. AI embelished. AI pandered. AI faltered. AI can’t interpret your lived experiences. How would someone, who gave everything to their dream job feel if they lost parts of their life they would never get back?This way. ये अंधी चोट तेरीकभी की सूख जातीमगर अ...
It was a little past noon when Adrian stepped out of his cabin.“Can I have everyone for five minutes?” he said, his voice calm but carrying enough authority to gather attention.Chairs shifted. Conversations paused. The team slowly came together.Kaia looked up from her screen, curious.Adrian stood near the center, hands loosely folded.“We’ve had a good week,” he began. “The Westbridge project was i...
There’s a certain moment in your professional life… when advice stops helping.Not because it’s wrong — but because it’s too clean for the mess you’re standing in.That’s the space I found myself in while reading The Unscripted Leader by Paparao Chintalapudi.This isn’t the kind of book that tells you what to do.It quietly shifts something more uncomfortable — how you think when there is no clear ans...
There’s a certain kind of silence that comes after you hear advice repeated too many times.“Follow your passion.”It sounds good. It feels right. It almost has to be true.And then a book like So Good They Can’t Ignore You by Cal Newport walks in — not loudly, not aggressively — but with the kind of calm certainty that makes you uncomfortable.Because it doesn’t just question that advice.It quietly d...
