Ashwin Jayaram

Ambivert. Traveler. Music Lover. Wildlife Enthusiast. Proponent of Climate Justice.

[Ashwin Jayaram @TaurianTrouble]

When time is not on your side, even a bowling ball can boomerang

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

Surround yourself with compounders:

[aether @bluewdrift]

This line from Atomic Habits isn't ready to leave my head:

"It doesn't make sense to continue wanting something if you're not willing to do what it takes to get it. If you don't want to live the lifestyle, then release yourself from the desire. To crave the result but not the process is to guarantee disappointment."

[Pawan Chandana @PawanKChandana]

24 hours to lift-off. 🚀

Eight years ago, @SkyrootA started with just two people with an idea.

There was no policy framework for private spaceflight in India, no real funding ecosystem for space startups, and we were taking on one of the world’s hardest engineering challenges. The odds of success seemed incredibly small.

Today, India’s first privately developed orbital rocket stands on the launch pad, ready for lift-off.

This moment belongs to every member of our team, our investors, the Government of India,@PMOIndia, @isro, @INSPACeIND, our partners, suppliers, customers, and everyone who believed in us long before this day.

We have done everything we possibly could.

Now we let physics do its job.

Whatever tomorrow brings, every second of flight will teach us something invaluable. Reaching the launch pad and attempting an orbital launch is a landmark milestone for India—and an achievement only a handful of companies worldwide have reached. Every milestone we cross will advance not just Skyroot or India’s space journey, but the global commercial space ecosystem.

Tomorrow, we take the next step. 🇮🇳🚀

[ANI @ANI]

#WATCH | Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh: On the launch of India's first privately developed orbital-class rocket, Vikram-1, by Skyroot Aerospace, Pawan Kumar Chandana, CEO and Founder of Skyroot Aerospace, says, "... This is the first time that a private company in India has built the rocket, brought the launch pad, and taken off... It is a very important moment for the global space sector... We are proud that we were able to do this. A team with an average age of just 28 years has built India's first private orbital rocket... The rocket is completely built with carbon composite..."

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

James Clear on the power of daily habits:

[Vivek Mashrani, CFA @MashraniVivek]

8. Write down 10 ideas a day.

Sounds silly. I did it for six months straight.

My thinking became a muscle, not a hope.

Over time, these ideas compound like crazy.

[Vibhor @vibhor376]

The people at Google have an obsession with excellence.

Every evening when I walk into the office gym, it's packed. People lifting weights, doing cardio, attending yoga sessions. During lunch, you'll see people eating salads, boiled eggs, grilled chicken, putting in efforts to stay healthy.

And then they go back to building amazing products.

Nobody is forcing them to hit the gym.

Nobody is forcing them to eat healthy.

Nobody is forcing them to spend extra time learning.

That's just who they are. Becoming a high performer in any field is not easy.

The discipline you see at work is usually the same discipline you see in the gym, in their routines, and in the way they spend their free time.

[Ashwin Jayaram @TaurianTrouble]

Waiting for the day for the classic gypsy to make a come back!

[Lacee @LaceeLume1]

A whole year in one reel 🫶✨

[Abhishek Murarka 💹🐂 @abhymurarka]

Good opinion piece. He writes with much experience and humility.

Best line - "You do not dig a well when you are thirsty. You dig it in advance."

[JB @TheDilliMirror]

Many years ago as a young mgmt consultant, I was working with a CEO of a mid sized company . His people skills were legendary . I asked him what was his people philosophy.

“ When people reach out to you , there are only 2 ways to respond - either you talk to them OR you tell them when you can . The most disrespectful thing you can do is it keep people hanging . You can never be that busy that you cannot email or text 2 words to people who have taken the pain to reach out to you”

Its been 15 years to this conversation and I have tried to follow it every single day .

[Big Brain Business @BigBrainBizness]

Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google, on the simple weekend habit that transformed his leadership:

Schmidt shares a rule he learned from his legendary coach Bill Campbell, the subject of the book "Trillion Dollar Coach."

"You work really hard during the week as hard as you can — 12 hours, 14-hour days, whatever — and on the weekends when you're at home or with your family or whatever, carve out a few hours to think."

The rule is deceptively simple: put the phone down. No texting, no Instagram, no notifications. Just think and write.

Specifically, Schmidt writes down two things:

1. His honest assessment of what he did the previous week
2. What he needs to do next week to address everything he forgot or left unfinished

@ericschmidt acknowledges it sounds basic:

"I know that that sounds kind of obvious, but it's a good trick because it forces you to take charge of your next week."

And the output isn't a grand strategy session.

It's a practical reckoning, a quiet moment where things surface that got buried in the noise of the week.

"Oh, I forgot that I have a sales problem over there, or I forgot I was supposed to call this person. Oh, I didn't have this proposal and I had this idea, but I didn't get to it."

In a world that rewards constant output, Schmidt's insight is that the highest-leverage hours of the week might be the ones where you stop producing entirely and simply reflect.

The leaders who compound are the ones reviewing, recalibrating, and showing up Monday already ahead.

[Ashwin Jayaram @TaurianTrouble]

Back to stone-age!

[Professor @Masterji_UPWale]

I once worked with someone extremely wealthy.

What stood out wasn’t their lifestyle.

It was their calm.

Coffee order wrong?
They drank it.

Flight delayed?
They opened a book.

Restaurant slow?
They kept the conversation going.

While the rest of us complained about things we couldn’t control,
They had already moved on.

Later I realised two things:

Wealth often changes how people spend emotional energy.

People operating at big scales think in years and decades, not minutes and inconveniences.
They simply refuse to waste attention on small battles.

Not every battle deserves your attention.

When you have financial and psychological security, you don’t need to fight every minor irritation.
You learn to conserve emotional energy for decisions that actually matter.

Lesson:
Your attention is a limited resource.
Spend it on what actually moves your life forward and not on things that don’t matter.

Pic : #IIMBengaluru

[Ashwin Jayaram @TaurianTrouble]

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Thank you team India for the immense joy you have given!!