I once dated a man who showed up at my front door unannounced.
No text, no call, no heads up of any kind. Just knocked on my door out of nowhere.
Because he had dropped his phone in the toilet and it died and he didn't want me to sit there thinking he was ignoring me. He had no way to reach me so he just got in his car and came to my house so I would know he wasn't ghosting me.
I stood in my doorway looking at this man for a second just taking that in.
He drove to my house. Because his phone died. Because he didn't want me to worry.
I think about that a lot when people try to tell me that effort is complicated or that you can't really know if someone is interested or that mixed signals are just part of dating. No. This man dropped his phone in a toilet and his immediate response was to get in his car and come find me so I wouldn't feel ignored.
That's not complicated. That's not a mixed signal. That's a man who wanted me to know he was thinking about me and found a way to make that happen with zero technology available to him.
If he wanted to he would.
I told my cat, “If the soup starts boiling, let me know.”
Five minutes later she came over and started yelling at me.
The soup was boiling.
I’m not saying my cat understood me, but I am saying I’m a little afraid of her now.
My parents were in the middle of an argument when my dad proudly said, “I bought you a house and a car,” and my mum casually responded, “That’s standard procedure.” LMAOOO
How I went from a ₹25K/month job to self employed making 25lpa+ in 8 months 👇
Back in 2021, when I moved to Bangalore for the first time for my first job.
Just after COVID, I started interning at a startup in HSR. It was part of my final-semester requirements and counted toward my passing grade.
At the time me and @Yugandhar_19 were already 6 month into Hovar Labs our software development agency with 4-5 interns working for us and clients across US, EU and middle east.
This is also the time I started @crypto_jargon
My schedule used to look something like this 👇
-Wake up at 8:30 AM, cook breakfast, eat, get ready, and catch up on world news while eating.
-If something important happened in the markets, I’d take a few trades and publish a video update.
-Be in the office by 11:00 AM and work until lunch. I often skipped lunch or grabbed a quick dosa or whey shake nearby so I could use those 45 minutes to catch up on the markets, run Hovar standups, assign work to interns, and handle operations.
-By 6:00 PM, I’d head home and then straight to the gym.
-Around 8:30 PM, I’d get back and start preparing dinner.
-Before eating, I’d usually record another market update video.
-By 10:30 PM, dinner and cleanup would be done.
-Then from 11:00 PM to 2:00 AM, I’d work on Hovar, handling client calls, managing projects, and growing the business.
And then I’d do it all over again the next day.
I was essentially juggling three jobs at once, carrying two bags and three laptops everywhere I went.
For eight months, this was my routine. Eventually, I quit my job to go all in on what I was building.
To be fair, I also got a bit lucky. The second COVID lockdown meant there was no work-from-office requirement, which gave me back valuable time. At the same time, my YouTube channel started gaining traction, and the markets were in a strong uptrend, creating opportunities that weren’t entirely in my control.
Still, luck only created the opportunity the eight months of relentless work put me in a position to take advantage of it.
Its been 5 years, I still have three jobs... Founder, Trader and creator in that order 🤞