Where I Stand
A quiet reflection on uncertainty, reinvention and what it means to begin again while standing between identities, countries and chapters.
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Library
A curated home for essays, working principles, conversations and specialist writing. Begin with a reading path or browse by collection.
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Five ways into the work
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Gratitude
A reflection on the people and circumstances that quietly make a life possible.
The Contract Is the Beginning
Why trust is built after the signature, not before it.
Anderson Gave Me a Village
What belonging can change in a demanding learning journey.
$3 Trillion in Data Centers by 2030
A starting point for understanding the infrastructure behind the AI economy.
Am I Using AI to Extend My Thinking—or Avoid It?
A question about convenience, struggle and human judgement.
Collections
Choose a lens
Each collection follows a distinct question, but the same themes often cross between them.
Through My Quiet Lens
Personal reflections on growth, family, belonging and the moments that change how we see.
Explore collection →Working Principles
Commercial and leadership beliefs shaped by customers, colleagues, classrooms and mistakes.
Explore collection →UCLA Anderson
Learning, community and the experiences that made an MBA more than a degree.
Explore collection →DC Decoded
Data centres, power, digital infrastructure and the commercial systems behind technology.
Explore collection →Green AI
A practical research experiment into lower-waste everyday AI use.
Explore collection →SAGE for AI
Thoughtful, sustainable and responsible human–AI engagement.
Explore collection →Everything
Browse all writing
35 published pieces across the main written collections.
Gratitude
A reflection on family, distance and learning to notice what matters before it disappears.
I Wasn’t Sure I’d Last a Month
A story about arriving in Singapore with doubt, slowly finding belonging and discovering that surviving can itself be a form of strength.
Finding My Voice
A sixth-grade language struggle became an early lesson in originality, effort and the value of trusting my own voice.
Winners Do Things Differently
What repeated exposure to high-performing people revealed about discipline, preparation and the small choices behind visible success.
A Trip Down Memory Lane
Looking back at the people, places and moments that quietly shape who we become, even when we do not recognise their influence at the time.
Second Chances and First Choices
A reflection on regret, agency and the difference between being given another opportunity and choosing differently when it arrives.
Developing a Taste for Diversity
A personal reflection on food, familiarity and how openness to difference is often built gradually through ordinary experiences.
Listening My Way Forward
How hosting conversations helped an introvert discover that listening can be not only a strength, but also a way of leading.
Authenticity Doesn’t Shout
A reflection on the quieter signals of authenticity and why being genuine is often felt long before it is announced.
Growing Together
Parenting is not only about helping a child grow. It also requires parents to keep changing, listening and learning alongside them.
Let Go
A quiet meditation on control, uncertainty and the strength it sometimes takes to release what can no longer be carried.
Two Dogs After Forty Years
I spent most of my life without a dog. Percy and Pluto quietly changed what I notice about presence, patience and home.
Beyond Networking: What 20+ Teams and 100+ People Taught Me
The most meaningful relationships rarely began with an introduction. They were built while solving problems and doing meaningful work together.
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.
Generative AI Optimises for the Statistical Average
Convenience removes the need to practise small habits. AI may be the next step in that quiet trade-off.
One Less Thing to Worry About
Customers may forget the presentation or the price. They remember whether your presence made a difficult moment easier.
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.
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.
Am I Using AI to Extend My Thinking—or Avoid It?
Every powerful tool changes what we practise. The real question is what happens when convenience begins to replace the struggle that develops judgement.
When AI Makes Everything Faster, What Still Makes It Matter?
AI can accelerate execution, but speed cannot replace human judgement, emotional timing or authentic connection.
When Awareness Isn’t Enough
Data can show us what we are doing. Change often begins only when we understand why we are doing it.
You Need to Be Bored
Boredom once felt like empty time. Looking back, it may have been the space where curiosity, reflection and imagination learned to grow.
The Contract Is the Beginning
Winning a contract is not the finish line. It is the moment someone decides to trust you.
Relationships Are Built by Working Together
Shared work creates stronger relationships than introductions ever could.
Curiosity Keeps You in the Game
The real risk is not being wrong. It is assuming the game has stopped moving.
Focus on the Gaps
Strong systems do not fail only at the big rocks. They fail where small gaps are ignored.
$3 Trillion in Data Centers by 2030
A plain-language guide to why data centres are measured in power, what a gigawatt means and where the enormous investment requirement comes from.
Why Power, Not Space, Is the Only Thing That Matters
The old real-estate mental model for data centres is breaking down as rack density and reliable power become the defining constraints.
Helium: The Invisible Chokepoint Behind AI
A closed strait, a disrupted helium supply and the hidden dependency connecting geopolitics, semiconductors and AI infrastructure.
One Race, Four Winners
The AI infrastructure buildout is not a single market. It is a chain of value pools, and different companies win at different stages.
Training vs. Inference: The Compute Shift That Matters
Why the centre of gravity in AI infrastructure may move from building models to running them at scale.
Why the Grid Can’t Keep Up
The energy may exist, but delivering it reliably is a different challenge—especially as data-centre demand accelerates.
From Location-First to Power-First
What changes when data-centre developers stop bringing power to computing and begin bringing computing to stranded energy.
Follow the Cash
A lesson from evaluating real businesses: revenue tells a story, but free cash flow reveals whether the business is truly healthy.