Today I Lived (TIL)
Reflections, lessons, and thoughts captured day by day from my mine.
Entries in 2026
45 entries foundMet a nice friend. I am starting to become much more socially enjoyable person
I was feeling quite low but I lifted myself up and pushed myself into working through it. “You don’t let yourself slow down in the middle of a round”. - in boxing context.
Found myself being over excited and acting embarrassingly weird stuff. I forgot my adolescence can take trip back home.
I went to meet my ex-colleagues and I was able to put a nice pitch for GlitrAI and was also not super awkward. I was the youngest but I fit right in. I also went into this meetup even though I did not feel like it initially. I did not skip this time.
I switched my cold call strategy to tell them that “I got this contact from another brand owner” and it increased trust so much that they stayed longer and receptionist even forwarded founder’s contact twice. just the start so lets see
I think I speak too much. I should be great at saying right things in the right amount
Found a kickass candidate, working from a remotest part of Rajasthan. Is in class 10th but has self taught himself lead generation.
I met my friends, I was not there.
Today TIL got its life. Idea of starting it is to be able to capture days between years so that I can compliment saying “Time flies!” with “but I lived.”
I did finances of my company and realised how hell of an important thing is cash flow
Today, I had a customer go from “we are happy with traditional workflow” to converted-closed in 5 minutes. It was all due to asking “can you help me understand why” when she said “I don’t like AI.” followed by sending some kickass no-bullshiter samples.
A customer told us that our work is AI and all of the team gathered up and discussed for 2 hours obsessively on what went wrong. Sometimes I think - “Really? I made this team?”
Today is the joining of my first full time employee. Yay!! Glad to be on this side after 7 years
I had to let go of one employee. I had the hard conversation with him. At the end, the person had zero despise for the decision. I am proud of the way I carried that conversation out
“Picking a niche and doubling down gives a sense of security (amongst competiton)”
I had the most ordinary day today but in the evening, I seized it by doing some focused work. vibed with some theivery corporation and co songs.
Designed and executed an amazing developer hiring interview. Love my job!!
We got our company registered today!
My team made me realise I negotiate too cut-throat with my customers and I should close at a more win-win pricing. - It is a grave mistake but I felt good to know that I am a good salesman.
I realised I am not that much of a 1st principle thinker as I think I am
Made a classic mistake of hiring before having figured out the fit in the daily workflow. Was about to finalise but then realised my hiring parameters are totally wrong because of ambiguity
My team made me realise that 3 months flew by and we did not achieve much in our startup. It was a kick in the gut moment. I realised how every moment that I don’t perform, is something I have to pay a premium for in the future if luck too did not help.
Made a good friend and had a great time. Also, Bangalore club is pretty.
How I be moving being HR, Finance, Business, Tech etc all compacted in one. being bad at everyone of them.
“For a different result, you have to do something different” - Struck a deal that is unusual by many standards. Did it because want to do something different this time.
I had another mindless conversation with my friends and loved it. Has recently become this person who has started enjoying friends company
The meaning of winning the day hit me. There are so many distractions everyday but then some set of tasks are so important that without them you feel you lost the day. Let’s see if I use this realisation
Lost a deal due to over-negotiation and not signing up on time. I need to practice more to get better. More and more I realise that cracking a good deal is all about knowing my own-self well. Knowing my need-to-win, my fears, my budget and my chull to negotiate it for fun.
Had a kickass start of the week, I won the first punch with my week
Promising stuffs without having any idea how - has become my thing these days.
Have a call of reckoning with a customer in 2 hours, and I am laughing nonsensically. Actually, I have recently learnt to laugh whenever there is something that is supported to scare me. Love this new form
I was too harsh to my team members and I felt sorry after that. but I bit my lip, instead of blurting out sorry
I watched inside out and I realised how I was missing this perspective in the past
We started planning our next quarter and its goals. I loved the way I conducted the meeting in a way where I just knew what rough picture I wanted to draw is going to be but it took a good shape when I started talking.
I liked how I started with recapping good things which happened in last 3 months and how we faced incredible challenges which affected our plan execution.
I met an awesome person, who is running a Business Intelligence startup for retailers. He is quite senior to me but we had a conversation like a friend. This is new me. who will make connection, meet people, do some signalling here and there.
Today I signed a makes-me-shit-in-my-pants deal
Today, I got a call from a prospect in my sleep, I woke up to the call, drowsily introduced myself, then gave a perfect pitch of what we do, and slept back. All in 20 seconds
I have gained a subtle instinct for seemingly ordinary occurrences. It feels powerful.
Got bashed by a candidate for wasting her time because it took longer for me to evaluate her. Running startup is refreshingly humbling.
Not reacting in the heat of the moment is a subtle kind of wisdom. Just sleep on it.
We got keys of our first office. Guess we are grown ups now.
I realised I am quite funny for a person with my sense of humour
Learnt about scarcity mindset vs abundance mindset. I am trying to move to the latter one.
I have numerous slack channels that I have not opened in last 1 month (more like, did not need to.) have I learnt the art of delegation?
I have numerous slack channels that I have not opened in last 1 month (more like, did not need to.) have I learnt the art of delegation?
“Picking a niche and doubling down gives a sense of security (amongst competiton)”
Met a nice friend. I am starting to become much more socially enjoyable person
Designed and executed an amazing developer hiring interview. Love my job!!