Feb 28, 2021My oblivious friends...Reaffirming point #36 in my forty takeaways last year: Most of the people around me keep trying to tell me what's good for me or how I...
Feb 14, 2021The ability to just do and get things doneThe last few weeks had been a huge tailspin for me. I relate it to a multitude of challenges compounded upon each other - first, the...
Dec 26, 2020Complicated storytellingThis is true for many investment banks. And people pay for complexity. But it's an odd world: Founders chasing publicity on social media,...
Dec 22, 2020I am just a brick-layer.“Rome wasn’t built in a day but they were laying bricks every hour.” "The problem is that it can be really easy to overestimate the...
Aug 22, 2020Creating valuein starting up any business or career, one needs to first understand your role within the firm - are you a small gear or a large gear...
Jul 23, 2020My cover letter from 2006IB isn't just about getting through the gruelling late nights and delivering on the number crunching. It was also about the harsh and...
Jul 20, 2020Embracing imperfectionFor most part of our education and up to university, we have been conditioned to conform and succeed. We have been constantly told and...
Jul 5, 2020Forty TakeawaysThere’s nothing you should regret in life - all the good things that you have today are a result of everything that has happened....
Mar 14, 2020The New Age of Internships'Less is more - no intern has ever impressed me with knowledge coming into the internship. Many have pissed the entire team off by...