Life
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Juhu Marathon 2025
My second year at the Juhu Marathon’s 4 km dream run. Over a thousand participants, a chaotic scramble that felt like catching a Mumbai local, and a reminder that showing up is the whole point.
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The 40-Year-Old Startup
What changes when you start a company at 40 rather than 25. Not all of it is a disadvantage.
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2023 in Review
An honest account of a year with more changes than expected and fewer regrets than feared.
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The Energy Audit
A framework for figuring out which activities give you energy and which drain it, and what to do with that information.
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On Saying No
Every yes is a no to something else. The discipline of declining is learnable, but it takes practice.
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The Second Mountain
Reflections on David Brooks’s book about the shift from achievement to commitment as the organising principle of a life.
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Pandemic Notes
Things learned and unlearned during the extended interruption of normal life. Some of them are keepers.
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Goals for 2021
Public goals for the year, set down here to be held accountable to them later.
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2020 Year in Review
An unusual year reviewed honestly. Some of it was terrible. Some of it was clarifying. Both things were true simultaneously.
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6 Months of Lockdown
Six months in and the shifts are real. Not temporary adjustments — actual structural changes to how work, infrastructure, and daily life operate.
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Life and Opportunities Post COVID-19
Two months into the pandemic-related remote work transition, patterns are beginning to emerge. Some are positive. Some are not.
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Work from Home: The New Norm
As if taken from a zombiecalypse movie, the coronavirus outbreak has impacted the entire world. Without meeting people, how does work get done?
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Why Does a Non-Football Fan Like Me Still Watch the World Cup 2018?
I am not a football enthusiast. I find myself watching the 2018 World Cup anyway — because I am genuinely moved by ordinary individuals accomplishing extraordinary things.
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2018, the Year of Numbers
13 Llama Studio began as a full-service agency accepting all projects. While that kept the business active, it diverted focus from what I actually care about: working with numbers and analytics.
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The Case of the Missing Engagement Glue
On what makes people stay engaged at work — and the specific things organisations do that destroy it without noticing.
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2016 — A Year in Review
A year of difficult choices and useful lessons, reviewed honestly.
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Dr. Strange and the Case of Disabling Constructs
What the Marvel film reveals about victimhood as a mental model — and why even god-level beings can be defeated by it.
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I Am Sapped
On the weeks that drain you completely — what causes them, what recovers you, and the thin comfort of knowing they end.
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Faith
On faith as a practical operating principle — the willingness to act before you have proof — versus faith as a substitute for thinking.
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5 Years Hence
On why five-year plans are almost always wrong and why making them anyway is still worthwhile.
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Nostalgia
On what nostalgia actually is, what we are really missing when we feel it, and what it is and is not useful for.
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My Life Is a Beatles Soundtrack
On why the Beatles seem to have written the soundtrack for every possible human experience, and why that body of work still holds up.
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Savalee — The Acorn and the Oak
On the Marathi concept of savalee — the shade of a great tree — and the patience required to grow into what you already are.
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Valu — The Wild Bull
On the Marathi word for a wild, uncontrollable bull — and what it means when applied to people who will not be tamed.
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Life as We Know It
On stepping back and noticing the accidental architecture of your life — and what to do with that recognition when it arrives.
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Lights Out
The first post on this blog — on why writing clarifies thinking, and what this blog is supposed to be.