Pawan J. Mehra

“The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.” Isak Dinesen / Karen Christence Dinesen

Congratulations @BCCI @cricketworldcup champions! #TeamIndia always ahead of the game.

The gut-brain axis, that strange nexus between your gut microbes and your moods, is a two-way street. Not only do microbes have a say in your mental state, but your mind can also influence those same microbes. psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/mood…

The contributions of #IndianAmericans in the United States have been brought forth wonderfully in this report from @IndiasporaForum and @BCG Thanks to the stellar team lead by @mrsandhill for putting this together. indiaspora.org/bcg-impact-rep…

Rapidly evolving usage patterns show Black, Hispanic and Asian American youth are often quick to adopt the new technology. #artificialintelligence #AI #chatgpt #genz #millennials #multicultural hechingerreport.org/proof-points-t…

Commencement speech at @Stanford from @melindagates - great lessons on life and world including "build a web of deserved trust". youtube.com/watch?v=npfQcv…

Although Asians are the most educated segment of the American workforce, they are the least likely among all racial groups to ascend to leadership roles. #AAPIHeritageMonth #AANHPIHeritageMonth #AAPIMonth #AAPI hbr.org/2024/06/stop-o…

I’m building a whole new outlook on East Asians now. And we thought we knew them well enough.

Chuck - the story of how Charles Schwab built the greatest trading firm. youtu.be/Q3DXvg_90KE?si…

How come no one's talking about this? This is the best thing coming out from Ogilvy that's not advertising!

@mcuban 👏

I was wrong with my number yesterday. Got the final number and the wire is complete. Wanted to be accurate. Do I expect all of it to be used wisely. Of course not. But I'm still proud to be able to give back to our country. I've said it for years. After military service, paying your taxes is the most patriotic thing we can do.

Some of their first business cards.

@morganhousel Or a lifetime. Grasping the depth of some, like Tao Te Ching, could take you the entire lifetime and even then you may just get the gist of it.

There are exceptions, but in general I think a book should either take a month+ to finish reading or a weekend to finish reading.

@howard @roam 🎯 @googlecalendar pick up a cue

8 minute meeting time will be a default option in the upcoming @roam Virtual Lobby booking system.

@altcap Brilliant

Announcing - Invest America CEO Council. Outstanding CEOs who endorse helping every child share in the upside of 🇺🇸 by providing a 401k like private acct to the 3.7 M children born each yr seeded with $1000 by the Govt & invested in the S&P 500 - like a turbocharged piggybank from birth. Businesses and families can add to the acct but it can’t be traded. Member CEOs have expressed a strong willingness to contribute to the Invest America accounts of the children born to their employees at a level appropriate to their company. The Council will rapidly expand to include 100s of CEOs demonstrating the broad appeal of this common sense, bi-partisan solution. #publicprivatepartnership @MichaelDell @LisaSu @Benioff @dkhos @Rich_Barton @PittmanRadio @anthonynoto @InvestAmerica24

@morganhousel My fav: I believe pretty strongly that one’s overarching aim in life and work is to always be making one’s self obsolete.” – Tim Hanson

A few smart things I've read lately: collabfund.com/blog/smart-wor…

@matt_gray_ 🎯

Harsh leadership truth: Paying a sh*tty salary is the most expensive mistake you can make. 21 other harsh leadership truths that took me 10 years to learn:

@InvestLikeBest 💯 these universal laws apply to every entity

Frank Slootman is retiring as CEO of Snowflake. He grew the business from $4B to $75B in 5 years. Our conversation with him is one of our favorites. Here’s a taste of why and what makes him special: 1. I have never been too early to fire people. I have been too late. 2. Narrow the focus. If you have 5 or 10 priorities, you have 0. 3. Put as many resources on as few things as possible. 4. Operate through influence, not rank and title. Flatten your org chart. 5. Raise the bar. 6. Confrontation is our culture. People settle for the status quo. Fight it constantly. 7. Wage war on incrementalism. Pretend you have nothing, build something dazzling. 8. Trust is everything. Show your stakeholders you have their back. 9. Interviews are overrated. Talk to everyone who has worked with a candidate before. Do your homework. 10. Your sales problem is probably a product problem. 11. Sales is a highly repeatable, scalable, predictable process. 12. If you master and control your own distribution, you become insanely powerful. 13. Growth is not a mystery, it’s mechanical. 14. Keep pushing the boundaries of how fast you can grow. Never settle for good enough. 15. Past glories are poor feeding. 16. Re-prioritize all of the time. Work on the highest value task. Complete it, move on. Build momentum. 17. Never take shortcuts. 18. Playbooks don’t work. Think for yourself and understand things as they are. Every situation is different. 19. Amp it Up.

Mayor @LondonBreed’s Roadmap To San Francisco’s Future looks promising. The city of love once again becoming the city we all love. sf.gov/roadmap

It’s intriguing that a few hundred thousand employees could create the same economic value as hundreds of millions of people in an economy. The human potential is really infinite.