Shifting Focus | Atul Yadav

Shifting Focus
disappointed
that no one
looks at
him
the performer
started to
look at
himself
and enjoying
what he
did
forgot the
faint signs
disappointment
lost in his
own world
intimately interconnected
and when
he was
drawn to
the beauty
of silence
and visualised
the million
possibilities
he realised
the crowd
around him
had been
hypnotised

Generation Z: Shaping the Future of Indian Startups

by Atul | May 3, 2025 | Business, Companies, entrepreneurship

Generation Z: Shaping the Future of Indian Startups Generation Z (born between 1997 and 2012) is rapidly emerging as a transformative force in India's entrepreneurial landscape. With their digital fluency, value-driven mindset, and innovative approach, Gen Z is...

The deeper relationship between art and entrepreneurship.

by Atul | Dec 1, 2024 | entrepreneurship

At the core of both artistic expression and entrepreneurial thinking lies a creative mindset that fuels innovation and drives progress. Artists and entrepreneurs alike share a unique ability to envision possibilities that transcend the ordinary. This imaginative...

Interesting conversations enhance knowledge

by Atul | Nov 21, 2024 | Creativity, Life Philosophy, Writing

Photo by Scott Webb on Pexels.com Conversations with people, if done appropriately, can be knowledge enhancing endeavours, even if the topic is something you know a lot about. Knowledge resides in our brains in a tacit form, and only a certain part of it becomes...

Financial Freedom is a stupid concept

by Atul | Nov 19, 2024 | Business, Investments

Financial Freedom is a stupid concept, even stupider is the concept of f**k you money, think about the following things instead.For people who don't what it is, it is the amount of money you need to tell the world to take a hike.Unfortunately, no such number exists....

What makes an entrepreneur unique?

by Atul | Nov 15, 2024 | Business, Creativity, entrepreneurship

Many people live under the illusion that they want to be entrepreneurs one day, and most never do. The confusion here is about what entrepreneurship really is. Most people think it is a profession, and just like adding another job to your Linkedin profile, you can...

Transformations of Different Kind

by Atul | Dec 6, 2022 | Uncategorized

Any kind of change, especially radical change, brings with it many challenges for all the people involved. It is therefore insightful to take a look at them as a whole. Let's look at corporate transformations, startup pivots, and individual career transformations as...

Ring the bells that still can ring

by Atul | Jan 28, 2022 | Creativity, Life Philosophy, Productivity, Writing

Leonard Cohen crooned, rather perfectly:Ring the bells that still can ringForget your perfect offeringThere is a crack, a crack in everythingThat's how the light gets in These are the kinds of lines that set you free. Free from the compulsion of producing something...

Wittgenstein’s Duck-rabbit Metaphor

by Atul | Jan 25, 2022 | Life Philosophy, Uncategorized

Wittgenstein's duck-rabbit metaphor highlights the challenges of understanding the ambiguities in the environment. Besides being a philosophical problem dealing with change and cognition, it is a practical tool to understand the multiple aspects of reality. In...

My Best Stock Investment

by Atul | Jan 23, 2022 | Business, Companies, Investments

It is 1999. Besides some punts made with my flatmates, I have not invested in any stocks. I am getting interested in stocks, but I think the stock market is a gambling den. I have a visitor for dinner, a friend of mine, a senior guy at a broking house with experience...

National Startup Day

by Atul | Jan 16, 2022 | Investments, Life Philosophy, Productivity, Writing

The honorable Prime Minister has declared the 16th of January as National Startup Day. This is a fascinating development and a piece of excellent news for the Indian startup ecosystem. As a humble contribution from my side, I plan to give the kindle copy of my book,...

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Music

by Atul | Dec 16, 2020 | Poetry

as the music seeps deeper in the recesses of my neuronic pathways pathways like the water of the first rain in the hungry earth i rejoice the feeling of being alive

Phosphenes

by Atul | Nov 28, 2020 | Poetry

Does it make senseTo own one's desiresAnd hold you inMy arms, closed andWarm like a phospheneMemorised, drunk and deadLooking in your eyes,Trying to make senseOf the patterns ofLife with what youHave to judge and classifySensual emotions, lettingGo the anarchic...

Casual Poetry

by Atul | Nov 13, 2020 | Poetry

Everyone writes poetry I used to try too Till the day I saw The sad and the good The sublime, the trippy Unlike anything I had seen From that day I have lost My ability to create a rhyme Everything that seemed mundane Suddenly seems so sublime