I'm obsessed with why people do what they do.
I'm Yashasvi. I read people and systems for a living, and for the fun of it. Writer, operator, and the one who says the thing everyone else is only thinking.
Gurugram, mostly
I'm Yashasvi. I read people and systems for a living, and for the fun of it. Writer, operator, and the one who says the thing everyone else is only thinking.
A view I will defend
Most "people problems" are system problems wearing a costume.
Teams, relationships, careers: they rarely break because people stopped caring. They break because the incentives quietly started rewarding something else. Find that, and almost everything else explains itself.
What I actually do with that obsession
A living archive of observations on hiring, org behaviour, ambition, and modern life. No motivational fluff. Specific enough to sting a little. A taste:
"The moment a team crosses 40 people, no one can agree whose job it is to say the hard thing. The org chart says everyone is responsible. Which means no one is."
Org behaviour"We say we want a partner who challenges us. Mostly we want someone who agrees with us in a more interesting way."
Relationships"Every Bollywood blockbuster is a focus group of a billion people. It shows you what a country is anxious about long before the news does."
Culture"People say they want honest feedback. What they want is to be right, and admired for being open to being wrong."
Human behaviourToo much for one business card
Incentives, trust, decisions, the gap between what people say and what they do. It has its own home at The One Labs.
The One Labs →Observations that compound into a worldview. Read by people who own outcomes, not just people who like posts.
Read a few →When growth gets messy and nobody can name what's wrong, I find the real problem and build the system that fixes it.
The work →The rest of me
The things that don't fit on a CV but absolutely explain how I think.
Off the clock
In case you were wondering if it works
I write where people argue, build where things are broken, and travel where the food is good. If any of that is your kind of thing, let's be in touch.