Hrisikesh Medhi

We are always telling stories, whether we realize it or not. We might as well get good at it. Good stories win people over. They provoke and inspire and inflame the human spirit. It’s a tremendous source of power.

What you do on your bad days matters more than what you do on your good days.

Anyone can nourish their most important relationships when life is smooth, but the effort you put in during the rough patches matters more. When you're motivated, eating healthy is easy, but your choices on your toughest days can undo your progress. Keeping your emotions... See more

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... See more

To understand Product Design, you need to understand the tech industry.

The underlying appeal in software as a business is scale . With zero marginal costs, you can build your product just once and put it in the hands of billons. The goal is scale, and the strategy is growth.

But this strategy of endless growth cuts against one of the fundamental... See more

Our entire existence is shaped by the orientation of our attention. Each day unfolds as a culmination of the things we choose to focus on from when we wake up until we fall asleep.

There are two ways to grow: by adding or by shedding.

Do you need to add something or do you need to shed something

Also, a well is an apt metaphor, because wells aren’t the value, they’re the container for the value. All the internet’s deepest wells sell their water — you and me . As much as every company likes to claim innovation and the technorati love to label innovators, innovation is not what’s happening here. Not really. The internet wells all do the same... See more

Philosophers have been worrying about distraction at least since the time of the ancient Greeks, who saw it less as a matter of external interruptions and more as a question of character—a systematic inner failure to use one’s time on what one claimed to value the most. Their reason for treating distraction so seriously was straightforward, and... See more