The most meaningful relationships rarely began with an introduction. They were built while solving problems and doing meaningful work together.
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Through My Quiet Lens
Thank you for choosing to pause and explore.
Some ideas reveal themselves quickly. Others take time, quiet observation, and a willingness to look again. This is a place for the second kind.
A collection of essays, conversations and reflections on work, leadership, technology and everyday life.
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The Editorial Page
How reading The Hindu with my grandfather taught me to look beyond what happened and ask what an argument was really trying to say.
Continue reading →Equality or Equity?
A ten-minute walk to school became a lesson in fairness, time and the wisdom that can come from the smallest voices.
Continue reading →The Value of Being Bored
Boredom once felt like empty time. Looking back, it may have been the space where curiosity, reading and reflection quietly took root.
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Five ways into the work
Follow the kind of thinking that interests you rather than the date it was published.
Essays
Longer reflections on work, leadership, relationships, technology and everyday life.
Working Principles
Ideas distilled from experience and expressed simply enough to carry forward.
Conversations
Two distinct projects built around listening: a personal podcast and a UCLA Anderson community series.
DC Decoded
A specialist lens on data centres, digital infrastructure, power and the systems behind technology.
Projects
Research and initiatives translating reflection into practical experiments and shared learning.
Hi, I’m Praveen.
I write because writing helps me understand. Over the years I have worked across India, Singapore and the United States in commercial leadership and mission-critical infrastructure. The ideas that stay with me, however, often come from quieter moments—conversations, negotiations, classrooms, family and everyday experiences.