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His son looked like his father
Seeing His Father
Shekhar Natarajan held his newborn son in 2020 and saw his own father. That father used to deliver telegrams and made 175 rupees a month, and he was generous even with all that poverty. His mother was just as stubborn and courageous, and she would give up her own food for the next-door neighbor. That karma kept coming back to him like a boomerang, helping him over and over through people he never knew.
Why He Left
He wanted to do the same thing at a grand scale for his son, and the only way to do it was with technology. In May he left a job at American Eagle Outfitters, where he was the second highest paid guy, to build a better society.
What The Job Was
The old job ran nine to five. The work was figuring out how to sell more to someone who already has a lot of stuff: how many clothes does a person need every day, yet the ad says the jeans look better on you and you are incomplete.
How long did India's telegram service last?
India's first experimental telegraph line, built by William O'Shaughnessy, ran from Kolkata to Diamond Harbour in 1851. The service expanded across the country and became the fastest way to send urgent news. State-run BSNL ended the telegram service on July 14, 2013, after more than 160 years.
Why does kindness tend to come back around?
Sociologist Alvin Gouldner described a near-universal norm of reciprocity in a 1960 paper, in which people feel obliged to return help they receive. A 2010 study by Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler in PNAS found that cooperation spread through social networks, reaching people up to three links away from the original giver.
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