A season comes to an end
End of season for me, taking a break from agriculture, but staying involved through voluntary efforts.
End of season for me
One truism in agri, season influences everything.
After an intensive season of 1 year and 5 months, my tenure and time with my employer comes to an end on 15th July.
Similar to soil, after harvest of crop, needing some nourishment. Operator me seeks to take a break from the agri-space.
I will continue to participate through my voluntary efforts with Agripreneurs but active day to day involvement is over.
My time for the past year revolved around building anything new. Also, enabling fellow colleagues to perform better.
If you ask me, what was your impact? I would stumble to find a number like team size handled, business revenue generated or value addition. Over shared joke that I keep mentioning, I was a manager without a team.
You could see this as problem or a blessing. It depends. For me, it was an opportunity to get in and get out at right times on multiple fronts.
I worked with some wonderful people. All men(problem of the space) who will continue to do exemplary work and take the projects forward.
I personally wanted to sit out before next season starts. It was also time for me to move on. I felt like I overstayed my invitation.
In terms of what next. Short break ensues. Nothing further than that I am ready to share at this point of time.
Rest assured, writing on agriculture will continue on my Digital Homestead. So, does this newsletter.
Round up
Other things that happened with yours truly in the week.
Smart Brevity - Short Book review
Read “Smart brevity” by Axios folks. It talks about a guide to communicate better. I wrote a short note on them.
- Punchy headlines, crisp sentences and short structure summarises the core of the book.
- The other strategy to follow is respect the reader by keeping it simple.
I believe it is a good guide for folks who want to communicate in an environment where writing and reading is not the norm.
Women Farmers
The last project I was working on shaped up really well in the end. Now, the young and wiser Vishal and Dinesh will take it forward.
Watch out for them. I presume I have a skill to spot talent and I believe both these young ones are exceptionally talented in the agri-space.
Their rookie season got over and now they are entering the big leagues and turning pro.
I wrote a lot about the project we were working on without articulating it all at once. It will come out once they announce it publicly.
Until then, here is the round up of the backdrop.
Links that resonated
Only featuring one this week which is a long one. Grab your choice of beverage and enjoy.
How to blow up a timeline
Eugene Wei writes some of the best posts on social media. His famous Status a Service helped me understand how different social media works.
He wrote this time to declare the decline of Twitter since Musk acquisition.
It has never seemed to understand why it worked for some people or what it wanted to be, and how those two were related, if at all. But in a twist of fate that is often more of a factor in finding product-market fit than most like to admit, Twitter's indecisiveness protected it from itself.
Twitter’s decline is impacting a lot of folks who are “introverts in life but extroverts on text” as Eugene says. The larger audience is not bothered because Twitter churned more users than it retained.
But for the few it retained(8 years for me) helped me find my niche community. An opportunity to participate was the motivation for me to keep coming back to Twitter. It’s emptying very fast, though.
It is still my mainstay but my engagement over there reduced.
Sign off
I have recently gotten back to hitting the 🎾ball on the courts. Its been therapeutic for me to get back to a game which I had to give up due to knee problems at 14. I was angry and distraught at that time. 15 years since I left the game. I picked it back to help me rejuvenate.
Now, I am nursing a tennis elbow injury. The difference being, it can be tended to with some strengthening exercises. This injury creeps on you due to age.
This ordeal reminds me of the circumstances I currently inhabit, older and more self-assured me is content for the time being. More earnest and aware of choices I make including the one I just made.
Singing off till the next time,
Vivek, watching too much Wimbledon for time being.