Kahran and Divya break down what it means to be successful -- and to have been successful and no longer be so. When do our cultural definitions permeate our feelings about successful? And when do they preclude achievement in success? What does it mean to have achievement in success? This second episode in the series about success is scintillating, provocative and guaranteed to leave your head scratching.

Success: achieving it, the moving goalposts of it, the feeling of it, in a trait, the way we tell ourselves stories of it and, of course, what is it. This discussion deeply jumps into a topic where Divya and Kahran have spent a lot of time, and bring views from their previously divergent, and now, arguably converging views. We’ll be diving deeper into success this season, and bring this focus to all our interviews, as well as our discussions (and interrogations of each other!)

As we wrap up this season of Thinking on Thinking, we revisit one of our favs from last season. Where we talked to Computational mama about her life and her creative process.

Stay tuned we will be back in season 6 with some amazing things.

In this episode Divya talks to Soumyadeep, recently named Forbes 30 under 30 in Asia for Consumer Tech, about learning visual styles as he builds his AI models for his startup, Dashtoon, breaking down computer vision as a technology and the role of media in driving tech.

You can check out dashtoon here : https://dashtoon.com/

As our motivations change, and especially in doing new things, finding how you can make them slightly easier for yourself can be helpful in accomplishing them. Of course, some things are regardless just hard to do, but between Kahran and Divya there are some diverse approaches and stories abound of how the approaches work in certain situations.

This week Kahran talks to Lena Chaihorsky, founder of Alva10 not about her business but about how her growth as an entrepreneur has helped her in other areas of her life, in feeling joy and satisfaction as well as how she sees herself as a citizen, and the importance of emotional growth.

In this episode, Kahran and Divya break down feelings of trust and feelings of confidence, and look at where they differ and where the nuance is important, especially thinking about consumer businesses and experiences.

Divya talks to Shikhant and Shivi about their travels, journey with the african caravan, teaching kids art, about collaborating with people who are special to you, and more, in this episode filled with interesting stories.

In this episode, Divya and Kahran have a meandering conversation starting around compensation and work into compensation for your life. How can you measure compensation beyond straight up money that you get in exchange for your work? How do you value that type of compensation? And why do tornado chasers chase tornados? What is that compensation?

Kahran chats with Prem and Andrew from Humanly about building the company together, growing, creating avenues for growth for themselves, each other and those who work with them.

You can check out humanly here : https://www.humanly.io/