The traditional talk therapy doesn’t work for men.
Not entirely. Not on its own.

Men and women are different. Our wiring is different. Our failure modes are different. Modern therapy—well-intentioned as it is—leans heavily into feelings, validation, naming emotions, and sitting with them. These things work. But for many men, they are insufficient.

Maybe they’re insufficient for all of us. I can only speak from the inside of being a man.

For some men, therapy isn’t just incomplete—it makes things worse.

The truth is—nobody, probably not even me, gives a fuck about me.

That sounds harsh. Especially the part about me not giving a fuck about myself. But we’ve all been there—wanting someone else’s approval more than any self-love we’re capable of mustering.

The world is selfish in a strange way.
It rewards people who offer themselves to it.

Our potential is a function of our imagination, ability to be our imagination and resources around us.

Our imagination can be captured by what we tell ourselves and others. I don’t know about you but my mind fires up new ideas, possibilities that brightens my soul, and I forget probably 90% of them and the 10% I do remember, most I sacrifice at the altar of execution.

Maybe that is just life - we are meant to be more curious than we will ever have time. Maybe there is beauty in unfinished ideas, some of the best pieces of art were never finished in the artists lifetime and procastination seems to be the favorite mistress of imaginative minds.

Every founder I admire—every one—moves fast.
Not because they know everything.
But because they don’t wait to find out.

Startups have less of everything: Less cash. Fewer people. No brand, no customers, no resume fluff. No five-year plan. No buffer.

Instead of Eat → Sleep → Rave → Repeat, it is Decide → Ship → Observe → Repeat.

God was the OG generalist : Omnipotent. Omniscient. A being who could write odysseys, build the universe, create all life, destroy what’s no longer needed, compose symphonies, and engineer galaxies, all before lunch.

Our desire to create super intelligence, to travel to space, to find other life forms - is to search for become God. And we have taken one giant leap forward as a humanity with AI. It is our burning brush to create, to imagine and to will into existence.

There’s a sweet spot where humans hum like machines - the flow state . One task. Full focus. Vivid Imagination. A few hours of unbroken attention—and the whole system locks into flow. Time blurs, output spikes, meaning returns.

Step outside that zone and we look like an AI hallucinating - our words and actions have no coherence to our stated goals. We doom-scroll, tab-hop, snack on sugar, binge on noise.

When I was a kid and people would ask me to be grow-up or become mature -

When I was a kid and people told me to grow up—to be mature—it always sounded like a polite way of saying: adjust. Fit in. Dull your edges. Make peace with the rules. It felt like a slow betrayal of me, like being asked to trade in my wildness for a seat at the big boy table. I didn’t like any of it. Still don’t.

However, in my 30s through the smoke and blood and grind of building things from nothing, I started to see a different definition of maturity. One that made sense to me.

There is big question of what AI will do to human jobs and human livelihood and the answer is rather simple - it will change, it will evolve and it will create more space for human creativity.

Like any soul adrift in this world, I've wrestled long with the meaning of life, and I reckon it boils down to two simple words: create and play.

Everything that gives life its pulse—from the very act of living, to the strokes of art and strains of music, to the spark of innovation and the rise of empires—each is a testament to creation.

To own our destiny isn't just to navigate life's currents; it's to harness our strength of will, to carve our own path through the wild terrain of existence. It's about liberation, not from life's tragedies—failures, heartbreaks, setbacks—but from the tragedy of not striving to live our truest selves.

As men in our mid-thirties, we can all run 6-minute miles and it's an effort. We are proud we can all run sub 6 miles, but none of us has attempted to break the 5-minute mile in a decade (I have never attempted it in my life), and it felt like an absolutely impossible feat—but so are most of our ambitions for love, family, work, and community.

Imagine, if you will, a team as a finely woven tapestry of human connections. In this intricate fabric, each thread represents a team member, a node of potential and skill. To transform this potential into success, these nodes must not simply coexist but collaborate, weaving together through consistent and dynamic exchanges of information, ideas, and responsibilities. It's a dance of dialogue

As a kid, I loved math, I think I had not lost a single point on my exams till I was 10 or 11 yrs old and loved being part of our math olympiad team. I almost considered getting a degree in maths and till date love doing math problems. So years ago, at Stanford when I tried to write down all my life lessons, I found math to be the best language to write them down.

To understand great products, we must differentiate between the tool and the product. A cup is a great tool, so is a car for getting from point A to B.

But Stanley Cup is a product and Porsche is a product. I am not talking about branding it but a product must transcend its mere utility to provide a certain sense of aesthetics, communicate a relationship and inspire something in a user, and it often transcends the very purpose it was built for.

All moral decisions should be viewed from the lens of these individuals. Thats our only moral obligation.

The line from my first books of hers that still stands out to me is when Howard Roark is in his deans office and the dean asks "My dear fellow, who will let you?" To which he says, "That's not the question. The question is, who will stop me?"

This is the short read. It is purely just a collection of reasons I love to build and why I am extremely supportive of people chasing their passions and curiosity.

In the bustling tech hubs of San Francisco and the Bay Area, there's a mantra that echoes through the corridors of startups and the tweets of Silicon Valley influencers: avoid status games.

This piece of wisdom, often attributed to Naval Ravikant, has become a guiding principle for many in the tech community. But what exactly does it mean to avoid status games? And more importantly, how does one navigate the nuanced landscape of reputation and status?

For a select few, happiness is a peculiar concept. I would wager that most creators do not chase happiness; instead, they live for something more profound, deeper, and enduring. In the second part of this discourse, I will delve into this further, but first, let me share my personal relationship with the concept of happiness.

As a child, around the age of ten, I struggled to grasp the concept of happiness. When asked if I was happy or what brought me joy, I found the questions baffling

Every so often, I wake up with this burning urge to level up - eat cleaner, push harder, show more heart, grind like there's no tomorrow. I craft the perfect plan for the week, the month, setting goals and challenges to become that person. I'll throw down a monster goal to get my act together - run a marathon, conquer an Ironman, hit a business milestone. I often hit them but it is somehow not because I got better, but because as the deadline of loomed, I am able t tap into a frenzied energy, a maniacal drive to succeed, only to revert to my old self.

Discounting is a great tool and nobody loves discounting more than the sales team. It really helps for sales people to do price discovery and offer the best clearing price for your product for that particular customer. It helps create a sense of urgency by claiming that this price is only available till X date.

It also helps the customer feel like they are getting a “deal”.

My hot take is negotiating pricing, discretionary discounting is highly inefficient, time wastage, bad way to conduct business and an absolutely the least effiecient way to price discovery.