Vikram Mekala

One of the greatest privileges in life is to love what you do

The "barbell" feels true for most things today.

Either go very early or very late. Cheap or super premium. Very small or very big. The middle is getting commoditized - it's where quality goes to die.

- investing (very early stage or public markets)

- careers (deep specialist or broad generalist)

- education (self taught or top-tier)

- media (podcasts... See more

The study suggests that being present and focused - rather than letting your mind drift - is better for happiness . This finding challenges the idea that mind wandering is the brain's default "happy place." Instead, staying engaged with the here and now appears to be a significant predictor of well-being.

David Senra (@FoundersPodcast) calls this "getting to your last business."

Not a startup. Your last business. The one you’ll be running when you’re 70.

@MichaelDell has been running his company for 41 years. His son @ZachBDell jokes he has a “Dad Terminal”: when he needs advice on supply chains, he just calls the guy who’s seen every version of the... See more

I am not a brand. 

I am a body of work.

Why hello geniuses, a privilege to be writing alongside some very great minds. I'm a bit of rogue here, being a friend of a friend of friend of Rosie & Faris’s but now being in my second half of a century I have almost perfected my intro on client calls:

I'm Mark Bell (never just Mark, something my Mum started and has stuck with everyone, including... See more

we can shift from applications that tell people how to use them to applications that show people what they can do by doing it for them. The traditional empty state problem transforms from "how do we help people start?" to "how do we help people refine?" And software shows people what's possible through action rather than instruction.

The tools will keep changing. The foundations don’t.