#failureaintbad

I was quite sad to read about Arjun's suicide. As a society we are not open in discussing failures and treat it like a scar that tarnishes our image. As a first step, I am sharing my own trough of sorrow and how I am coping with it. Please share your own stories and help any Arjun out there from going to the other side.#failureaintbad

The last few weeks have been very strange for me personally. I was dealing with a major setback in my life and was wallowing in my “trough of sorrow” — a term made famous by Paul Graham of Y-Combinator and explained beautifully by Joe Gebbia of AirBnB in a must-listen podcast called “How I built this”. And then a few days ago, I read about the shocking suicide of a 24-year old student. He was in…