Thinking on Thinking

This week Kahran talks to Lena Chaihorsky, founder of Alva10 not about her business but about how her growth as an entrepreneur has helped her in other areas of her life, in feeling joy and satisfaction as well as how she sees herself as a citizen, and the importance of emotional growth.

In this episode, Kahran and Divya break down feelings of trust and feelings of confidence, and look at where they differ and where the nuance is important, especially thinking about consumer businesses and experiences.

Divya talks to Shikhant and Shivi about their travels, journey with the african caravan, teaching kids art, about collaborating with people who are special to you, and more, in this episode filled with interesting stories.

In this episode, Divya and Kahran have a meandering conversation starting around compensation and work into compensation for your life. How can you measure compensation beyond straight up money that you get in exchange for your work? How do you value that type of compensation? And why do tornado chasers chase tornados? What is that compensation?

Kahran chats with Prem and Andrew from Humanly about building the company together, growing, creating avenues for growth for themselves, each other and those who work with them. You can check out humanly here : https://www.humanly.io/

Kahran and Divya talk about authenticity, and get into discussing grace, trust and more. This one is reminiscent of one of the earlier episodes of Thinking on Thinking where we talk in depth about the nuances of certain ideas.

Ritika and Abhineet, founders of RocketHealth, and sibling duo, talk about learnings on their journey of working together as siblings, to leveraging strengths of each other and how they have found a mission that aligns them both together.

How do you build things together, especially creative work. As Kahran and Divya embark on experimenting with new mediums and on new projects, they discuss their experience of working together for the first time on making comics. Like most conversations between them, the discussion meanders into discussion about building companies, creativity, the difference between entrepreneurship and creative co...

In this episode of thinking on thinking, Kahran talks to Dina Holzapfel about building a food business with her life partner and the intricacies of what you gain when you sell your business. Of lessons learnt from a long journey of entrepreneurship and much more. You can find more about Dina here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dinaholzapfel https://www.instagram.com/iamsparklestheunicorn You can fin...

Topical for this season, co-founders and hosts Divya and Kahran find themselves in some tension, with Kahran questioning his commitment to the podcast, and wondering about how the rewards in doing something change over time. Also how preconceived notions influence our ability to see options. Theme music is by Akshay Ramuhalli, you find him @btrptmusic. Editing by @beatnyk.

Rashmee & Anant, aka the Searats, are married travel influencers. We talk about what it's like to build a business with your partner, being instinct-driven, and how happiness comes from being cringe. And how it feels create a space people feel they can judge you and your relationship, but also maintaining your privacy. You can follow the Searats on Instagram @travelwithsearats Theme music is by Ak...

As we take a break between the seasons, we revisit episode 29, where we discussed about generative AI and how it has changed out ways of thinking and doing work.

We dive deep into the creative process, and our roadblocks and success there, before pivoting into game design, and the wealth of games that came up in Divya's conversation with Anurati Srivastva and the fascinating ideas from Kahran's conversation with Katieann Vogel. Theme music is by Akshay Ramuhalli, you find him @btrptmusic. Editing by @beatnyk.

A fascinating discussion of different games, game design, and approach to creation with Anurati Srivastva. You can find her collages @mixcontexcual and her website www.anuratisrinivastva.com. Theme music is by Akshay Ramuhalli, you find him @btrptmusic. Editing by @beatnyk.

Katieann Vogel, an ocean poet, speaks with Kahran this week on the path from computer science to becoming an ocean poet, what it means to spend your life in nature and creating, and how to find a sense of stability and centeredness. You can find Katieann on her website, https://vogelian.com/ Theme music is by Akshay Ramuhalli, you find him @btrptmusic. Editing by @beatnyk.

Divya & Kahran come back together on the interesting ideas we learned from Meghana Srinivas & Samhita Arni in episodes 7 & 8 of this season 4: rituals, success, perception and identity. Theme music is by Akshay Ramuhalli, you find him @btrptmusic. Editing by @beatnyk.

Divya and Meghana discuss about Meghana's journey from being a cancer researcher to a startup founder, and her experience of working in an industry that requires a lot of emotional labour and how she finds her balance through rituals. They also discuss her uncanny ability to bring the most nurturing and safe groups together. Theme music is by Akshay Ramuhalli, you find him @btrptmusic. Editing...

When you write your first NY Times bestseller at the age of 8, do you feel successful all your life? Is there a successful identity? Or is chasing success a Sisyphean task? Kahran and Sam Arni have an incredible conversation, talking about culture, what it means to add value, and how you feel successful, for yourself and also for those around you. Theme music is by Akshay Ramuhalli, you can find h...

Kahran and Divya come back together to share their thoughts on our two remarkable guests -- Aditi and Fran -- and how both seem to share a very different view of the notion of identity, and how that has shaped their lives. Theme music is by Akshay Ramuhalli, you can find him @btrptmusic

Divya talks this week with Aditi Dimri, co-founder of http://cranberry.fit, about starting her career in academia and microeconomics before finding her desire to for fulfillment took her to more direct desires to help — first to more actionable projects, and then to starting a company herself! Fascinating to see how small a role a sense of identity played a role in her life, as different then comp...

Kahran talks this week with Fran Dunaway about her careers before she she started her company, TomboyX, and how she has found her identity outside of her career, or perhaps, better said, found her identity in all of her careers. Theme music is by Akshay Ramuhalli, you can find him @btrptmusic

Divya and Kahran come together to share their insights from the interviews with Manasi Khare in episode 31, and Computational Mama in episode 32. Theme music is by Akshay Ramuhalli, you can find him @btrptmusic

Divya talks with Computational Mama about her journey into coding; finding herself as a coder after being a designer; ideas of identity; how art, culture and coding intersect, as well as Computational Mama's journey in the moniker being born, having a son, and introducing coding and design to many others, from museums to live streams to workshops in GenAI and also to teaching other mothers abo...

Kahran & Manasi Khare have a sweeping conversation about law, pretending to be someone else, systemic thinking in the Indian context, and what it means to be a patriot. Manasi Khare is an in-house advocate and formerly was a practicing litigator at a law firm. She has been involved in public policy research with a standing parliamentarian. She is a lover of the mountains, and lives in Bangalor...

In the interlude before starting Season 4, we pull ep 16 from the archive this week. There's some interesting ideas about how to think about sightless, how vignettes shape your experience, and, as always, the role of expectations in outcomes. We weren't quite as good at editing or audio production back then, but rest assured, Akshay, our sound engineer, will be back for Season 4!