The humidity in Chennai has a way of perpetually hanging around in the air—walking around, she would feel it weighing down on her skin, especially during the early hours of the day, before the sun had risen Unerringly, she would rise at 4:30 AM every day. She had no need…

I find it fascinating that Medium — a platform dedicated to enabling writers to share content, and that logically should be doing everything in its power to enable writers to get to the drafts page, has made some fundamental design flaws that make it a lot harder for intentful amateur…

The first day of the hike was an eventful one. We arrived late at the base camp at Lohajung in the middle of the night and woke up half the trek party, creating a bad reputation with the other hikers in the process. We were assigned a room to share…

Netflix’s much touted TV series “The Queen’s Gambit” sparked a renewed interest in Chess. Just the very act of watching someone immerse themselves in a singular pursuit over years, to spend every waking hour obsessing over it, spending their free time reading books about the sport, analyzing chess moves in…

I am perpetually surprised by the lack of strong people managers in organizations and teams — this is a pattern that I was oblivious to earlier in my career — when I started out, I had the good fortune of working with individuals who were both exceptional individual contributors but…