The Club A blueprint, not a sermon: how to use this book
I didn't write a book to be admired on a shelf. I wrote one to be dog-eared, argued with, and used. Here's how to actually put it to work.
Founder & India From Agartala to Fortune 500 rooms
A small-town kid ends up running multi-million-dollar relationships in glass-walled boardrooms — and the impostor voice that came along for every ride. Here is what I learned to do with it.
Stories & Scars The shame I carried for half my life — and putting it down
I was abused as a child and stayed silent for decades. This is what the shame cost me, why I finally said it out loud, and what changed when I did.
Founder & India Hiring early adopters: finding your hidden leaders
The people most open to risk are your real change champions. Here is how I learned to spot them, recruit them, and let them carry the rest of the room.
The 8 Spheres Master the mundane: the compound effect of boring
Luck isn't a lightning strike. It's the quiet sum of hundreds of unglamorous micro-actions. Win the boring stuff, and one day people call you blessed.
Change Frameworks Why discipline is a bridge you’re meant to burn
Willpower isn't a lifestyle. It's a temporary bridge across the hard part — and the whole point is to walk it once, then burn it behind you.
The Club Co-learning, co-hustling, co-building: the Club manifesto
I haven't arrived. Neither have you. That's not the bad news — it's the whole reason the Club exists. A manifesto for people still on the road.
The 8 Spheres The mind is a rudderless ship until you act
I had a beautiful manifestation scrapbook and a mind full of dreams. None of it moved my life an inch. Here is what finally did — and why action beats imagination.
Stories & Scars The startup I shut down, and the team I had to let go
I hired them with big promises, then closed the division and let them go. Here is what failure actually does to a leader, and what I wish I had known.
Change Frameworks On the Outside / On the Inside: a tool for any problem
A two-layer device from the book for cutting through any problem — separate the symptom everyone can see from the root only you can feel.
The 8 Spheres The Jeevan Deep dilemma: tradition vs innovation
My mother stopped my son from blowing out his birthday candles. What she said next reframed how I think about raising modern kids without erasing where we came from.
Founder & India The T20 version of self-help: value in 10 minutes
Most self-help books ask for a Test match. I built mine for a T20 crowd — any chapter has to pay off in ten minutes flat, or it doesn't earn its place.
The 8 Spheres Gratitude isn’t soft — it’s a performance tool!
For years my negativity quietly taxed my output, my relationships, even my sleep. A boring three-line journal fixed more than any productivity hack ever did.
Change Frameworks Identity over goals: become the person, not the outcome
Goals point at a finish line you cross once. Identity changes who shows up every single morning. Here's why I stopped chasing outcomes and started casting votes.
Stories & Scars My grandmother’s money-lending ledger at age 8
My first job was keeping accounts for my grandmother's lending business in small-town Northeast India. It quietly rewired how I see money, debt, and risk.
The 8 Spheres Garbage in, garbage out: food, energy, and output
A debugging rule from my coding days turned out to be true for my body. What I fed myself decided my energy, my mood, and everything I built on top of it.
The 8 Spheres Letting go: forgiving yourself first
Before you can change, you have to put something down — including the blame you've been aiming at yourself for years. A confession, and a way out.
Change Frameworks Spectator sport and the counterfeit dopamine of watching
Why we watch others win instead of playing — and how to spot the borrowed reward that feels like progress but moves nothing in your own life.
Founder & India Intrapreneur vs entrepreneur: change from inside the system
You don't have to quit to build. The quiet case for changing things from within — and why the safest seat in the room is often the best place to make change happen.
The 8 Spheres B2B, B2C — but really H2H!
Every deal, no matter how it's labelled, closes between two humans. In a trust-deficit economy, trust isn't a soft skill — it's the only moat that doesn't erode.
Stories & Scars The missed-call identity: who we are vs what we own
In college I was the boy who gave missed calls. Then I bought a Nokia 6601 and quietly became someone else. A story about how our things rewrite who we think we are.
Change Frameworks The law of least effort, and how to use it on yourself
You don't choose the good thing or the bad thing. You choose the cheaper one, then call it your personality. Here's how to make the good path the cheap one.
The Club What the QR codes in the book really unlock
The book is frozen the day it prints. The resources behind its QR codes are alive. Here is how that living layer actually works — and why I built it that way.
The 8 Spheres How to actually measure if a change worked
Watch behaviour weekly, results quarterly. Why leading indicators tell you the truth long before the numbers do — and how to stop baking a cake with no timer.
Change Frameworks Commitment vs interest: the line that decides everything
Interest does it when convenient. Commitment does it when it isn't. One line decides whether anything in your life actually changes.
The 8 Spheres Money mental models I wish I knew at 25
Pay yourself first, the Rule of 72, margin of safety — three tiny tools I learned the hard way, including the one that cost me 70% of my savings in 2008.
Stories & Scars Riding to my final exam in an ambulance!
A scooter spill a week before my final-year exams, and what trauma taught me about getting back up — not by gritting harder, but by lowering the cost of the next step.
Change Frameworks The valley of disappointment: why month one always hurts
Reward lags effort. The dip in month one is normal, not failure — here's how to survive it until the new behaviour automates and goes effortless.
The 8 Spheres Designing a life on purpose (vs following the herd)
Most of our days run on autopilot — and autopilot follows the herd. Here's how I stopped sleepwalking through my own life and started designing it on purpose.
Founder & India Why most change initiatives fail (and it’s not the strategy)
The plan is usually fine. Adoption is where change goes to die — and that's a design problem, not a strategy one. Here's what I learned the hard way.
The 8 Spheres The presence mismatch: busy when they’re free
My mother was busy when I was young. I was busy when she finally had time. A hard look at the supply and demand of love — and the window that doesn't reopen.
Change Frameworks Make the right thing the easy thing
Stop spending willpower you don't have. Redesign your defaults so the good behaviour becomes the lazy one — and the bad one needs effort you won't bother to spend.
The Club The 8 deep-dive books coming next
The first book mapped 8 spheres of life in one volume. Now each sphere becomes its own co-authored book. Here is the roadmap — and how you get to write it with me.
The 8 Spheres Seeking vs believing: the empty cup
A full cup has no room. Why I think I don't know is the most powerful spiritual position you can take, and how it quietly makes change easier.
Stories & Scars Losing 70% in 2008 — what the crash taught me
I learned margin of safety the expensive way — by watching 70% of my money vanish in the 2008 crash. Here is the lesson, minus the tuition fee.
Change Frameworks Deferred Mastery: a journey, not four virtues
I wrote Discomfort, Focus, Resilience, Mastery as four things to be. I was wrong. They only make sense as stations on a road — and the name itself, DFRM, is the clue: Deferred Mastery.
The 8 Spheres The day I realised I was carrying my son’s weight!
My five-year-old climbed onto the bathroom scale. The number he showed was exactly how overweight I was — and it changed everything.
Founder & India Building in Bharat: the leapfrog decade
India didn't adopt UPI because of awareness campaigns. It adopted because the new way was unmistakably better. What that decade teaches anyone trying to make change happen.
The 8 Spheres The job-loss playbook: EMIs, EPF, and your emergency corpus
Lost the job? The first 30 days decide the next three years. Keep paying EMIs, don't raid your EPF, and protect your runway — here's how I learned it the hard way.
Change Frameworks Knowing isn’t doing: closing the execution gap
You already know what to do. So why isn't it done? The bottleneck is almost never information — it's the gap between knowing and doing, and that gap has a design.
Stories & Scars Chief destruction officer: the kid who burned down the house!
I broke things to build them — once, our tin-shed home. What that taught me about creativity, risk, and the rare gift of real feedback.
The 8 Spheres Dunbar’s number: why depth beats breadth
Your brain can hold about 150 relationships. So why are you collecting contacts instead of deepening the five who would show up at 2 a.m.?
The Club Why I wrote Making Change Happen
The book I needed at 20 and didn't have — a blueprint for dealing with change across 8 spheres of life, not another sermon about willpower.
Change Frameworks You don't lack willpower. Your bad habit just has a better UX.
Why the couch beats the gym every time — and how to redesign your defaults so the good behaviour becomes the lazy one. The real job isn't more discipline; it's better design.
Change Frameworks Why your habits don't stick — and the arc that does
I have started journaling four times and quit four times. The reason wasn't weak willpower — it was that I kept skipping the arc that turns a hard new behaviour into an effortless one.
Founder & India First-generation businessperson: no map, no safety net
Building with no family blueprint means you pay tuition the hard way. Here's why perseverance beats pedigree — and how to stop white-knuckling the climb.
The 8 Spheres Leading change when your team resists (without forcing it)
Resistance is rarely defiance — it's an unmet need wearing a frown. Stop winning the argument and start locating the rung the person is actually standing on.
Stories & Scars Chennai at 16: leaving home to find myself
At 16 I left a small Northeast town for a city where no one knew my name. Here's what nobody tells you about independence — and what it actually cost.
Change Frameworks The two kinds of effortless
Comfort and mastery both feel effortless — but one is who you were and one is who you became. A field guide to the effort-to-effortless curve.