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Navigating the Internet of Advice
The C4E Collective is a marketing communication agency, whose members index highly on keeping up with the latest essays, videos, thoughts leaders around the ideas, models, and frameworks of work-life, growth, designing your life, leadership lessons, business lessons, and more. I like to group most content discussed here, as Tech Bro Thoughts, or Tech Bro…
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Collect the dots before you connect the dots
Steve Jobs’ said this to Stanford, and the world absorbed it as its motto. “You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards,” he said, to eager students, pushing them to not over-plan their life, and take it as it comes. This idea of connecting the dots is not new – it…
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The rightful romanticisation of railways
It was a rainy morning in the early 2000s, when Harry Potter had become a big part of the Indian reading diet. My family and I had to leave our house to catch the train for our vacation to Gujarat, Rajkot, at my uncle’s house. By 10 am, I did not know what to carry…
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Why you should hire an internal journalist on priority
My first job was at an MBA institute, in the PR-Comms team on the admin side. Our job was to maintain the college social media; ensuring that the many many departments and programs were mentioned, the Dean’s speeches covered, special days and events celebrated and talked about. We would also work on the print magazines…
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Millennials, the internet, and a history of double identities
Snapchat, BeReal, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Medium, Substack – the list of the places where I am regularly present on, is endless. I share photos, gifs, videos, texts of all manners, freely, flowingly, trusting, expressing (even sometimes when I know we should not). My opinions, however silly, stupid, profound, lame, uncool, cringe, unpopular, unrefined, go…
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Day 5: #1000WordsofSummer
Today I woke up incredibly energised, with the kind of inner glow that comes when you spend a week eating clean, exercising, doing weights and cardio, having your micro nutrients and vitamin D3. There is a lightness in your step, like you’ve woken up from a long slumber and are ready to conquer the world. …
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Day 1: #1000WordsofSummer
Stream of consciousness writing is hard work. You risk sounding dumber thank you want to be perceived.
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Age, agency, and being the older woman in a romance
About The Idea of You, Something In the Rain, and cougars
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Why more of us women need to be mentors
Men really are from Mars it would seem, and women from Venus. What does that mean at work?
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Dating apps and our algorithmic behaviours
Here’s how dating apps do a disservice; turning us all into caricatures of what we see and hear around us.
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My introduction to the startup mindset
Taking an idea to business first requires a product-mindset-fit, not a product-market-fit.
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The Year of Chai, and not turning 30
Why be 30, or 29, or 28, when you can define your years in chai, pool, and co-working?
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Appreciating my sparring partners
Here’s how sparring partners help you take action faster, and achieve your goals.
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In unpaid praise of Tiny Change
Good planners must go beyond being a record of your task list; and help you as a life coach does.
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Returning from a sabbatical
Sabbaticals from work are amazing. The real challenge is to return from them. Here are some ways to!
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The emotional cost of Indian weddings
Indian weddings are grand and expensive affairs. But what we don’t talk about is the emotional toll they take.
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Find your voice as a writer
We focus too much on our IQ to become better writers. Here’s how to access your EQ and channel it for your art.