Helping folks with practical tips to manage themselves better
April 13, 2026
There’s this old Irish archer named Finn. His students would watch him practice and be completely confused. The man would aim at what looked like empty space—and still hit his target every single time. One day, Cormac couldn’t take it Read more…
April 7, 2026
There’s a simple truth about building a business that becomes obvious only after you’ve spent enough time doing it. Growing a business is not as complicated as we often make it out to be. It doesn’t come from amazing products, Read more…
April 6, 2026
“Master, please accept me as your disciple,” pleaded the seeker. “Tell me who you are,” the Master asked. “Ramachandra Rao.” “That’s your name. Drop it and tell me who you are,” the Master asked again. “I am a businessman.” “That’s Read more…
April 2, 2026
In most workplaces, clean solutions rarely appear first because clean problems rarely exist first. They have to be uncovered. The quality of a decision is shaped long before the decision is made. It is shaped by how the problem is Read more…
March 26, 2026
This came up in a conversation this afternoon with a senior colleague. We are on the cusp of entering a new financial year, and we were reflecting on what we had set out to do last year — where we Read more…
March 21, 2026
A few years back, I read a compelling book titled Five Temptations Of A CEO by Patrick Lencioni. There’s a line of thinking from that book that has stayed with me over the years, because it is counterintuitive. Most leaders, Read more…
March 19, 2026
When you understand something deeply, you can explain it in different ways. You can say it in one sentence.You can expand it into a paragraph.Or you can walk someone through it step by step. And no matter the format, the Read more…
March 18, 2026
Most decisions don’t deserve the time we give them. And a few deserve far more. Over the years, I’ve relied on a simple filter for decision-making, inspired by a very popular heuristic from Jeff Bezos. Is it reversible or irreversible? Read more…
March 17, 2026
Over the past few days, I have noticed something interesting. A few proposals and idea notes have come my way. Within the first few lines, you can almost immediately tell how they were created. The tone, the structure, the phrasing. Read more…
March 12, 2026
We often celebrate originality as the ability to create something entirely new. A fresh idea. A blank sheet turned into something that did not exist before. But another form of originality receives far less attention. Synthesis. Synthesis is the ability Read more…
