Hrisikesh Medhi

“Attention isn’t free. It’s the most valuable thing you spend.”

“Clarity isn’t about knowing what you want to do with your life, it’s about knowing what you want to do this week.

You don’t need to have it all figured out. You just need to know your next step.”

“The way you speak to yourself, the way you walk, the way you carry your shoulders matters. I got a fabulous opportunity to interview one of Spain’s most famous bullfighters, Martín Vázquez. I wanted to know how a matador controls fear when they know that there’s this massive bull who is going to do everything possible to kill them, and to subdue t... See more

It’s a reminder that for everything outside of our control, we retain—at the core of our being—an incredible power: The power to choose what we do with what happens to us. The power to decide what role an event will play in our lives. The power to write the end of our own story.

No one can take that away from us. People can hurt us. Money can be los... See more

I've spent the majority of my adult life feeling like I never get enough done. The inability to cross everything off of my to-do list seemed like some sort of fault in my planning, my technique, or my routine. But when I read this line from Oliver Burkeman, my mindset changed.… https://t.co/loNeVvGheg

Is it possible to be grateful for that nine-hour travel delay that has you sleeping on a bench in the airport? Is it possible to be grateful for your father’s affair that tore your family apart, and which now means you’re celebrating two Thanksgivings in two houses because your parents can’t be in the same room together? Or that dark period you wen... See more

Through sheer grind. He was telling me about how he does design reviews at night when he is vacationing. Why? Because a startup can’t stop shipping things because head of design has gone on a vacation. Yes, he can delegate, just like I can. And we do. But if things don’t ship on time, anything that goes wrong, is on our head.

Once you realize that money is a resource you own – and not the other way around – you will see money for what it really is: a tool that amplifies the values you already espouse

Remember, a solution that works in one scenario may or may not work in another, depending on the problem statement and how your initial research findings work out.