Winning isn’t everything. Picking the right battle is.
Many waste years “winning” the wrong fight, only to realise they never should’ve been in that war
@abi_ole AI is a powerful tool, but it’s only as good as the person using it. Common sense is what helps us ask the right questions, interpret results wisely, and know when to trust or override the tool. Just like an aircraft needs a skilled pilot to win a battle, AI needs human judgment
Hey @Prada, copying design isn’t kool. If you were inspired then you should give the credit too. Else no difference between you and the fake Chineses makers.
Best wishes on Eid ul-Adha. May this occasion inspire harmony and strengthen the fabric of peace in our society. Wishing everyone good health and prosperity.
Some founders still confuse debate with dialogue, and it’s killing alignment.
Debate = Win the argument
Dialogue = Understand and solve
You’re not here to win. You’re here to fix.
Ask: “What are we missing?”
Not: “Who’s right?”
#startups#leadership#clarity#culture
At Miraya Rose Starbucks, Bengaluru.
In most places: gossip about affairs.
Here: “That startup’s user story is broken, roadmap’s a mess, no PMF.”
Peak Bengaluru. Chai, sass, and strategy.
@PeakBangalore
In the early days of your startup, don’t drown in averages. Each customer is a goldmine of insight. Obsess over case-by-case feedback. Stats matter later; once the signal is strong. Early traction comes from understanding stories, not spreadsheet
The wind that lifts your sail is the same that can capsize your boat; remember, both your rise and your ruin may come from the same shore where you once found love, loyalty, or luck.
When a few people have a lot of wealth and lots of people have nothing, these are the 5 choices societies make, and we see examples of these around the world:
1. The people with wealth create employment and develop skills in the broader population.
2. The people with wealth donate to causes that indirectly create employment.
3. Governments tax the wealthy and redistribute to the needy, with varying degrees of corruption or leakages along the way.
4. Extortion networks arise that extort from the wealthy and they find enough people willing to do this work and this begets 5 below.
5. The wealthy employ vast security forces to resist being extorted.
Dharma dictates 1 and 2, with 1 preferable to 2. This is also the Biblical injunction to teach a man how to fish.
Many western societies have picked 3 (tax and redistribute that over time leads to corruption). I suspect 3 leads to 4 and 5 over time, so 3 is an unstable equilibrium.
4 and 5 are the symptoms of social collapse and decay.
What financialism does is to separate wealth from employment, through various schemes of monetary alchemy. Our ancients understood this intuitively and that is why they disapproved of usury and other "making money on money" schemes.
The nature and character of wealth determine and in turn, are determined by the nature of society - yes, it is a self-reinforcing feedback loop.