Karthi Subbaraman

Today we complete 20 years of togetherness 🎉 In our little dinner party last night with friends (and shots), I was asked to share a few lines about our lives together and made me jog the memory lane. I couldn't speak anything as I was overwhelmed by all the beautiful memories,

Protect your ideas. Don’t kill them even before they are born. You might wonder, how to protect your ideas. Before we jump in, let’s first understand what is an idea? An idea is nothing but a thought that has some form and shape. In its infancy, the form

Vijayadashami is always special 🫶 Everything is done with great intention on this day. Waking up super early, reading at-least one page of all the books kept for Saraswati Pooja the previous day (i kept my kindle and now i am beating myself up 😅), starting new projects, learning a new skill

How to deal with office politics? is a heartfelt question I get in my DMs and I skilfully avoid answering them 🙈 Today I decided to pen down some thoughts. Thank you #writein. It took three cups of coffee to jog the memory lane of good, bad and ugly parts the

I turn 44 this week ✨ To me, birthdays are ordinary days that are made extraordinary by the amazing people around you. Typically my birthdays are reflective in nature. I dig the past and figure out what could have gone well, what could I have done better, how could I have

Time surely flies. Yesterday, I hit my 90th day in my new role at Microsoft 🎊 What an amazing ride it has been so far 🫶 Change is hard. So I was prepared more than usual for this big change in my career. The first 90 days of anything is challenging. Let

This week in Product Book Club, we read Made to Stick by Heath brothers. This was one of those books that was in my must read category but never prioritised reading it. I learnt why some ideas stick and many don't. Most importantly I learnt the formula for idea adhesion.

I was determined to crush a book (and a review) week after week. This week was a true test to my consistency. This week was really tight with too many scheduled work and I couldn't make time to read. I also started my new diet (OMAD) last week and that

This week in Product Book Club, we read Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely. I read this book exactly a decade ago. It was fun to re-read the book again. This time, I learnt a lot more than the first time. If you are excited about human behaviors and decision making

You must have seen the buzz around the book club in the past few weeks on LinkedIn. Let's discuss the motivation, why, what, how on building the club some other time. Today I want to share my book notes on the book: The Mom Test. Instead of being theoretical about