Reflections

Why a silent retreat? Short answer: It just feels like the right thing to do. Break patterns. Reset a baseline for external stimuli. Long answer: My family and I have recently realised how I have been more prone to distractions. My attention span and tolerance for breaks have been shrinking

Founders make a lot of decisions. We learn how to be data-driven: measuring, evaluating, and projecting. What happens when these skills spill over into decisions in your private life? While building a successful startup, you develop frameworks for data-driven decision-making: what is enough data, when to take a decision, how

As a founder, you are under pressure to deliver results in a short amount of time. This pressure is something you are used to and probably thrive with. It is a source of meaning and enjoyment! It can sometimes turn into negative stress, but you have learnt how to handle

I recently listened to a podcast with philosopher Kieran Setiya that presented telic and atelic verbs and activities. Telicity is a property of a verb indicating that the action has a clear endpoint or goal. You can think of the difference between having kids and parenting or graduating and studying.

We live in a period characterised by polarity and strong dichotomies. Good vs evil, right vs wrong, work vs life. Once you stop and reflect, you soon realise that most of these dualities do not make sense. Reality is more nuanced, and we like it in an interweaved ecosystem where

Once a week, I take a walk with other fellow founders to connect and share experiences. Connection is a significant need for human thriving, and founders are notoriously alone. Here are some thoughts from the last one. Founders are strong performers; they get things done. Startups in the early stages

The Sistine Chapel is 40.9 metres (134 ft) long by 13.4 metres (44 ft) wide and about 20 metres in height. Michelangelo painted one of the most famous frescos from 1535 to 1541. The Last Judgement covers a large area behind the altar, representing one of the most

Once a week, I take a walk with other fellow founders to connect and share experiences. Connection is a significant need for human thriving, and founders are notoriously alone. Here are some thoughts from the last one. Entrepreneurs are deep in the trenches: there is always more to do that

You are a founder in a company just taking off. A small team of founders is adding some key recruits. You got your first round of fundraising, doing your first commercial deals. Financial resources are coming in, but you must be extremely mindful of where to spend them. You need

Everyone makes thousands of decisions. Everyday. Just think about how easy it feels to speak. Now sketch all the processes working in the background to make you articulate concepts. Impressive, isn't it? The same is valid for processing inputs. Every second, hundreds of signals reach our consciousness. All