Hooda's blog

If you need just one metric to judge anything in your professional life, it's the success metric.

I was reading an article1 where the author says AI will not replace financial advisors, and one of the arguments was, "Trust is a big part of it.

I understand the power of writing.

Processes are easy to create, and there are so many around because creating a process gives you an easy way out with a false sense of victory that you’ve solved the problem.

Parents do a lot for their kids and hence expect a few things in return (maybe respect, maybe one visit per year, maybe don’t do drugs, …) Friends do a lot for friends.

As a Twitter user, I find that a lot of things can be improved in Twitter UX (user experience).

It was the year 2016.

I shut down my first startup in 2016 so I guess it’s too late to write about it but I thought I’ll write it for myself for the sake of closure.

I have worked with a lot of freelancers in my 2 startups and made a ton of mistakes so thought of writing lessons I learned here so that I don’t repeat those mistakes the next time.

There was an old man who used to go to the ocean to do his exercise.

“Ideas are cheap, execution is everything.’’ — Chris Sacca, Investor in Twitter & Uber We live in the “execution is the king” world.

I've been trying to hire programmers for my startup for the past 8 weeks and have learned a few important lessons.

Are you thinking of working on your startup in parallel to your job?

If you use MacBook you might have seen utterly confusing shortcuts like: If you are a recent convert to MacBook, just like me, then you will go crazy remembering these shortcuts.

Life is full of choices and we have to decide.

Do I need to change my job?

Codecademy is a great website for learning programming.

This might seem a bit extreme criteria to evaluate what you really want to work on but the answer to this will tell you whether the job that you are doing now is meant for you or not.

How can you get an estimate (and trust the estimate) for a piece of work that can't estimate yourself?

If you feel that you’ll earn enough in 2 years and then you’ll start a startup, that’s not gonna happen.

What’s the worst thing about your product/service?

I generally go to this sports complex for jogging.

When was the last time you set aside time for deliberate, conscious thinking?

Can you say "I’ve done all that I can do"?

Our ecosystem – education, family, or society – is hell-bent on creating intellectual midgets.

At times, you get an issue/concern reported by just one team member, from just one client, or just one customer.

There are times when we are running into deadlines and we have to deliver with some compromise on quality.

Everything is simple.

Your plans are your faith in yourself.

You might be encouraging your team to work harder by promising them a higher salary, provided they show results.

If you are not content with the status quo, you feel bored.

Good talkers never get talker's block and many writers never get writer’s block.

I am always surprised by the quarterly result of successful companies.

People claim grandiose things, portray their best selves, and promise the moon in presentations.

We make so many excuses, to ourselves.

Mobile number portability got introduced in India some days back.

Managers/Leaders/Executives often ask themselves: How do I build trust with my team.

The other day I was at a clinic for an eye procedure.

Sometimes something seems so interesting, enchanting, riveting that you feel that you are in love with that thing.

I used to be an avid reader of Sramana’s blog (am not going to link to it) but of late there seems to be an ostentatious drive to increase the hit count for the website.

Assuming something is absolutely fine.

There are a few statements/events that hit me like a thunderbolt.

“It's nice”, “Good one”, “great job”, “fantastic”, “congrats” and other similar appreciative comments currently form the majority of the comments on the web.

You sell coffee and if your salesperson is drinking Tea, that too from another vendor, you need to speak to your hiring folks, Now.

Data is omnipresent and omniscient, we just need to collect it and decipher it to make fruitful use of it.

Last week I bought a Reliance Broadband Data card and immediately encountered some issues with its activation.

There is always a thin line between: confidence and arrogance dressing smartly and overdressing pointing out the details and nitpicking loosely coupled business unit and the emergence of chaos in the company spending on comfort and spending on luxury Diff…

Last week I happened to visit a hospital’s waiting room.

We are always told that failure is fine.

Nearly the entire world whines about customer support customer care's long waiting period.