I, with a group of friends were visiting Portland and we decided to explore the Japanese garden there. While checking out the gift shop, I stumbled upon something called the Zen gardening kit. I had read a few books on the application of Zen to career, to sports like Tennis…

I had the pleasure to invite Shruti Gandhi on the Nails and Hammers podcast, and here are some insights from our podcast conversation. Decision Making Process as a VC How do you spot trends and how do you research about companies to invest into? Shruti: I invest in a specific domain of Enterprise Tech, Data and Machine Learning and look for startups that are problem oriented. With my experience in the…

Dunzo, the on-demand delivery app recently announced that it is going to stop the sale of tobacco items on its Android App. This was done to comply with the PlayStore policy that no longer allows delivery companies to list tobacco products. We know that tobacco is bad for our health…

I have been trying an experiment over the past few months, where I am spending 80% of my time as a Software Engineer and the remaining 20% as a Product Manager. …

Food though has a main motive of pleasing palates or filing appetites is incomplete without stories, stories of the first time you had something, of people you had it with, of cooking something special, of family traditions, of failed experiments and the list goes on. When I was in Doha…

I was crossing a traffic signal the other day, and there was a car waiting to turn left after managing both myself and the incoming traffic. …

Culture had a very different connotation while growing up. It probably meant following age-old customs and traditions, celebrating festivals, visiting temples, eating a particular type of food etc. On a very meta-level, it meant doing things the way that you are supposed to do. …

Supply & Demand — Supply and Demand are two of the most fundamental concepts of economics. The concept of demand means the quantity of goods that consumers are willing to buy at a given price, and the concept of supply means the quantity of goods that suppliers are willing to sell at a given…

I came across a news article stating that scientists are training farmers to cultivate Hing in India. Coming from a traditional Gujarati Jain family where Hing is used as a staple ingredient, it comes as a surprise that the plant was never grown locally and was always exported from Iran…