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	Podcast:		Getting Meta
	Episode:		Dhimant Parekh : Founder, The Better India & The Better Home
	Category:		Arts
	Duration:		00:59:00
	Publish Date:		2021-08-20 00:35:08
	Description:		I speak with entrepreneur and “good guy of the Indian startup scene”, Dhimant Parekh. He’s the founder and CEO of The Better India and The Better Home - the former is a media company that shines a spotlight on people making a difference, and the latter is a line of sustainable home-cleaning products. His LinkedIn bio starts with “I love to build useful stuff from scratch.” When I floated the idea for this show on Twitter last year, more than one person wrote in saying I should definitely have him on the show. And that was a good idea - Dhimant was called, by one of those people, as the “most productive person I know”. Apart from running these two seemingly different companies, he also has a lot of outside interests - theatre, reading, the startup scene in general, quantum physics… all in all, great guest material for my humble little show. What I spoke to Dhimant about: How one's upbringing can really shape what they do in the future On how parallel interests can rub off on each other Finding your own work style (Dhimant, admittedly, is not a calendar-oriented person) Why the most important skill today is the ability to narrate a story How his company dealt with the pandemic and overcame several odds Positivity and finding hope in a time like this His various interests: from PASCAL to quantum physics. Everything Dhimant Parekh: Twitter :- https://twitter.com/dhimant LinkedIn :- https://in.linkedin.com/in/dhimant The companies he founded The Better India :- https://www.thebetterindia.com/ The Better Home :- https://shop.thebetterindia.com/ Dhimant’s article about surviving and thriving as a business during Covid-19 YourStory :- https://yourstory.com/2020/08/business-advice-startup-founders-covid-19/amp References made during the show, not in order: Dhimant’s thread about how he imbibed empathy from his dad Twitter :- https://twitter.com/dhimant/status/1305138048431251461 The Pomodoro Technique, which Dhimant references, but doesn’t necessarily espouse website :- https://todoist.com/productivity-methods/pomodoro-technique Dhimant’s love for quantum physics can be seen in some of his Twitter threads - here is one, on one of the most famous equations of all time Twitter :- https://twitter.com/dhimant/status/1293591687910981633 Buy Dancing Wu Li Masters by Gary Zukov - a book which Dhimant recommends to get introduced to quantum physics Goodreads :- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64794.Dancing_Wu_Li_Masters Amazon :- https://www.amazon.in/Dancing-Wu-Li-Masters-Overview/dp/0060959681 The books of Brian Green website :- http://www.briangreene.org/books-and-writings/ Mindscape - Sean Carroll’s podcast website :- https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/ Arrow of Time - Sean Carroll’s post website :- https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2004/10/27/the-arrow-of-time/ Dhimant’s blog Medium :- https://medium.com/@dhimant/ The first post he wrote on it, which is referenced Medium :- https://medium.com/@dhimant/how-we-founded-a-positive-news-organization-325574001d1a An article your podcast host wrote about The Better Home in The Hard Copy Link :- https://thehardcopy.co/from-content-to-commerce-the-better-home/
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