Rahul gives unsolicited advice

 I just finished listening to this amazing special series produced by the folks at HBR IdeaCast podcast on "The Rise and Fall of Carlos Ghosn". If you didn't know, Carlos Ghosn was the CEO of three automotive giants at one time - Renault + Nissan + Mitsubishi. This was before he was jailed for hiding his income from the Japanese authorities. He subsequently escaped from Japan in a crate meant for musical equipment in a private plane to a country which doesn't have an extradition treaty with Japan. Here are the 4 parts to the special series - Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 and Part 4 . Fun-fact : I met Carlos Ghosn. Seriously. Back in college, I was part of the Extra Mural Lecture team at my alma mater, Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) and one of the speakers who we invited was Mr. Carlos Ghosn. Here's a blogpost by students at the Department of Management Studies (DoMS) at IIT Madras from that day. I can't find better resources at the moment.

For those of you who don't already know, I'm a big fan of the podcast Planet Money by NPR. I haven't listened to them in a while now because I wasn't making time in my daily routine - until a couple of days back. And today, I came across this gem of an episode. Oh, by the way. I've also become a big fan of the US Television Show Jeopardy over the past year. I hope that helps you understand why I loved this episode.

A lot of my colleagues at the Austin office talk about what their favorite podcasts are, when they have time to listen to them and what not. For some reason, I never really made the time to listen to the podcasts they recommended. That changed yesterday. I was on my way back from a friend's wedding. On a train that takes 7+ hours. I'd watched all the movies I had downloaded on Netflix and Amazon Prime. And my phone was at < 15% battery so I couldn't spend anymore time browsing the internet. I needed to do something to cope with my boredom which wasn't a drain on my phone's battery. Which was when I remembered the podcasts I had downloaded on my phone, along with the movies. One of the podcasts my colleagues highly recommended was 99% Invisible . 99% Invisible is about all the thought that goes into the things we don’t think about — the unnoticed architecture and design that shape our world. I had a bunch of their episodes on my phone and I chose to liste...