The Hunar of Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock was called the Master of Suspense. His Hunar remains unique because his craft was shaped by his life esp ONE incident. AI can steal skills, but never steal your hunar.
Abhijit's Sketchnotes & Curiosities
Leadership, talent & curiosities
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What Makes You Irreplaceable – Skill? Talent? Or HUNAR
There is a word you need to know. It is spelled h-u-n-a-r. It is the unique personal signature that explains the difference between a fantastic architect & Zahid Hadid whose Hunar showed in 3 ways.
Why Indian Wedding Guest Lists Are Endless
In each society we need to differentiate what matters. Eskimos had 50 words for snow. Indians have 50 distinct named relationships. It is an operating system.
The Circular Economy of Talent
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Book Review: OUR BEST WORK by Nilofer Merchant
Nilofer Merchant says that in the AI economy only distinctly human capabilities matter. But 84% of value creation is unmeasured.
Write Effective Love Letters
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Why The Godfather Still Gives You Chills — And What It Teaches You About Every Story Ever Told
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Zebras get stressed when a lion actually appears. Humans get stressed through pure imagination. This explains why so many knowledge workers suffer stress-related diseases.
How to Make $75 M from One Business Book
The real business book ROI comes not from royalties, but from the derivatives. The result: consulting contracts, keynotes, and workbooks and coaching that gets in the big bucks.
Skill Distance: When Expertise Gaps Bend Behavior
Why does bad behavior of a celebrity chef, or a creative genius like a composer or even a celeb scientist get tolerated? But then there is one field where this rule is broken. Let me share that secret
A Happy Life or a Meaningful Life?
I would have voted to have a happy life, had I not read this book...
Where Do Digital Nomads, Expats, and Global Professionals Belong
When someone asks "where are you from," do you pause, calculate, wonder which version of yourself to reveal?
Build Your Uniqueness To Be An AI-Proof Leader
In the industrial age, we valued interchangeability as a way to scale. In the AI economy being unique makes you an AI proof leader. Stop living up to benchmarks and doing what millions are doing.
How To Plan Your Career Pivot - What I Learnt
Herminia Ibarra in her book Working Identity argues that career change happens through action, not just analysis, challenging the idea that you must first know what you want before you can act.
Generation AI: How Today's Smart Toys Are Reshaping Tomorrow's Workers (And What Parents Can Do About It)
The toys in your child's bedroom today are quietly training the workforce of 2040—and most parents have no idea what skills are being built, or what's being lost.
Skills Are Essential But Competencies Are The Survival Kit
Skills matter but then in the AI economy, differentiation is the only way for organizations and individuals to survive.
The Jobs Everyone Overlooks — Until It’s Too Late
We don’t have a job shortage. We have a relevance shortage. Here’s why the next wave of hiring will come from the jobs no one’s talking about.
When “Fake” Becomes More Real Than Reality
The surprising connection between China’s “pretend to work” offices, India’s fake weddings, and America’s doom spending—and what it reveals about the future
Book Review: Breakneck by Dan Wang
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