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To Be or Not to Be: Why I Entered 2026 Without Resolutions and With My Soul Intact

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“While the world celebrated the new year loudly, I chose the quiet work of becoming.” We have just entered 2026. And honestly? My timeline looks like a global therapy room. Everyone is sharing something . Memories from 2025. Achievements unlocked. Lessons learned. Before–after collages. Career promotions. Gym transformations. Travel dumps. Gratitude posts. Vision boards. Resolutions written with military precision. Some challenges. Some troubles. Some highs. Some lows. And then— boom —New Year celebrations, new goals, new agendas. Fireworks outside, affirmations inside. It’s all about wishing, manifesting, planning, hustling. And yes, before you ask— is that wrong? No. Not at all. Having goals is good. Having vision is healthy. Wanting growth—personal or professional—is human. But here’s where my confusion kicks in. Let me ask you something— who really benefits from all this madness? Who profits when motivation becomes seasonal? Who cashes in when self-worth is measured by prod...
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Amazon, Supply Chains, and the Question That Refuses to Die

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“Efficiency, scaled into control.” (A concluding reflection on leadership, entrepreneurship, culture, and control) Before I talk about Amazon , I need to pause. Because this blog didn’t start here. It didn’t start with warehouses, algorithms, or delivery trucks. It started much earlier—with a discomfort I couldn’t shake as a business student and later as someone working across corporate environments in global markets . A discomfort around what we are taught, what we admire, and what we quietly accept as “success.” This piece is the end of a chain—but not the end of the question. How This Conversation Unfolded (and Why It Matters) This entire series followed a very natural progression—one question leading to another, each more uncomfortable than the last. It started with leadership : questioning whether leadership is genuine service or simply control disguised as empowerment. (Read 👉 Here .) That question led directly into entrepreneurship : if leadership shapes power, entreprene...
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Apple’s Organizational Culture: The Truth We Chase and the Reality We Rarely Admit

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“Designed perfection, disciplined beneath.” I don’t want to sound biased. I really don’t. But ever since I became a business student—and later when I stepped into corporate roles across global markets —I’ve been trying to find one thing that no textbook ever clearly explains: the truth . The truth behind what we are actually being trained for. In universities, we’re taught frameworks, leadership models, and “ideal” organizational cultures. In corporations, we’re trained to execute, align, deliver, and optimize. Somewhere in between, an unspoken belief is planted in our minds: if you learn this well enough, you can build the next Apple. But here’s my reality-bitten perspective—one that isn’t sugar-coated: Most of what we are trained for is not freedom. It’s structure. And that realization becomes uncomfortable when we start talking about companies we admire the most—especially Apple . Why Apple Becomes the Benchmark for Everything Let’s be honest with ourselves. When people tal...
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Mark Zuckerberg, Entrepreneurship, and the Uneasy Truth Behind Vision

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“When vision turns into power.”   (A continuation of my leadership conversation) In my previous piece on leadership , I questioned something that still sits uncomfortably with me: whether modern leadership is about genuine service or simply a well-packaged system of control. That thought didn’t end there. If anything, it pushed me toward another closely related idea— entrepreneurship . Because if leadership decides how power is used, entrepreneurship often decides who gets it in the first place. And there is perhaps no better—or more complicated—example than Mark Zuckerberg . This is not an attempt to glorify him, nor to tear him down. It’s an attempt to slow the narrative down and look at it without the usual shine. Entrepreneurship: A Bigger Idea Than We Admit Entrepreneurship is often reduced to a headline: start a company, scale it, exit rich . But that definition misses the real point. At its core, entrepreneurship is about spotting an opportunity before it becomes obvious—...
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Rethinking Leadership: Service, Power, and the Corporate Reality

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“When power floats without accountability.” Ever since my graduation days, one subject has followed me like a shadow I could never outrun: leadership . I have read obsessively—books, case studies, theories, frameworks—trying to decode that one persistent question: Is leadership something you are born with, or something painfully built through training and self-improvement? For a long time, I accepted the textbook answers. Then I stopped believing them. Because the deeper I went, the more uncomfortable the realization became. Leadership, historically, doesn’t emerge in a vacuum. It often rises from oppression, imbalance, or social injustice . When systems fail people, leaders appear—sometimes as protectors, sometimes as products of the very inequality they claim to solve. Yet in the contemporary corporate world, the leaders we admire, quote, and glorify seem to follow a very different trajectory. They didn’t necessarily rise because a system was broken; they rose because they were hande...
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