<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Blog on Ashutosh Koirala | Decoding MarTech Layers</title><link>https://www.ashutoshkoirala.com/blog/</link><description>Recent content in Blog on Ashutosh Koirala | Decoding MarTech Layers</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.ashutoshkoirala.com/blog/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>I Wish Someone Had Told Me What a Rudder Was</title><link>https://www.ashutoshkoirala.com/blog/i-wish-someone-had-told-me-what-a-rudder-was/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.ashutoshkoirala.com/blog/i-wish-someone-had-told-me-what-a-rudder-was/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I wish my Grade 1 teacher had never forced my classmates and me to memorize this sentence:&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;“A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.”&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;At that age, almost none of us understood what a rudder was.&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;The only word we understood was “man.”&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;We memorized the sentence, but nobody taught us how a ship works, what a rudder does, or how it helps a ship change direction.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>I am not living my life for a CV.</title><link>https://www.ashutoshkoirala.com/blog/i-am-not-living-my-life-for-a-cv/</link><pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.ashutoshkoirala.com/blog/i-am-not-living-my-life-for-a-cv/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;january last year, I organized a hackathon at my college.&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;then, I realized I can actually do something serious.&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;after that I got into things with my cousin. SEO, &amp;amp; AI music for which we ran websites and pages on Instagram, YouTube, closed now. Some worked, some didn&amp;rsquo;t.&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;Then, new things… this year. Three industries. Footwear and fashion, education consultancy, and now AI, community, and marketing. All my very first jobs.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>