An Indian Thanksgiving

Dear Friends,

I was 25 when I met a farmer for the first time in flesh and blood. Until then, I had ideas about agriculture and farming. The story of my initiation into agriculture is an uncanny one: What are the odds of meeting a farmer as a strategy professor in a management school teaching a course on strategy from the lens of the world’s greatest strategist (Hint: Nature)? The farmer I met became my mentor for life and a large part of what I do owes to what I learned and continue to learn from him.

Given that it took me twenty-five years, I didn’t want to wait longer for my child. He turns seven next year. Few months ago, we spent a beautiful time at my mentor’s farm. [See pic above]

Growing up in a beautiful city in southern India, I’ve never celebrated Thanksgiving. Today seems like a beautiful every day to share the abundance I’ve received from my mentor.

Unlike other professions, farming doesn't create a demarcation between life and livelihood. And so, it remains deeply relevant for the future of careers. How do we design lives and careers that are attuned to the dynamic equilibrium of nature?

My open-source, permissionless agritech analyst career couldn’t have been possible without all of you who read this newsletter and lavish your valuable attention and energies, especially in times like these when faceless ghosts are waiting to hoard our attention inside horcrux pieces of our lives in social media.

Building a career out of a newsletter is an uncanny 21st-century phenomenon: You create a second brain outside by logging your thoughts every week religiously (for n=7 years). And you create serendipitous relationships thicker than blood simply by voicing out your deepest feelings and ineffable emotions through the zen of writing.

When you are a solopreneur, you are the experiment, the experimenter, and the outcome. I thank you from the bottom of my heart for sponsoring my solopreneurship experiments and making this occupassion possible!

Wishing you all a wonderful Thanksgiving. In the spirit of the moment, I am offering 50 % off on ABM Membership.

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Have a lovely day filled with gratitude ahead!

Love,

Venky