When the Data Is Right, but the Comparison Is Wrong
A reflection on data, comparisons and why human judgment matters even more when information becomes abundant.
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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.
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Through My Quiet Lens
Personal reflections on growth, family, belonging and the moments that change how we see.
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Commercial and leadership beliefs shaped by customers, colleagues, classrooms and mistakes.
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Learning, community and the experiences that made an MBA more than a degree.
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Data centres, power, digital infrastructure and the commercial systems behind technology.
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An expanding study of whether better AI habits can reduce unnecessary output while preserving usefulness.
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Thoughtful, sustainable and responsible human–AI engagement.
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The Generate Button Tells Us Nothing
AI makes creation effortless, but hides the resources behind it. What if AI gave us feedback on energy use the way cars, electricity bills and Screen Time already do?
What Celebrate 2026 Taught Me About Leadership
What began as a plan for a few podcast interviews became a lesson in showing up differently, building shared ownership and valuing the relationships formed along the way.
Where I Stand
A quiet reflection on uncertainty, reinvention and what it means to begin again while standing between identities, countries and chapters.
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.
What Percy and Pluto Taught Me
For more than forty years, I never came close to a dog. Then our daughter asked for one, and Percy and Pluto quietly became two of my best teachers.
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.
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.
Are We Really Eating Food, or Additives?
Using the Yuka app to scan groceries revealed how much of what we buy is closer to chemistry than food, and what that means for the planet.
My First Gamble, and the Slap That Taught Me About Money
A childhood lottery win in India, and the one sharp lesson that shaped how I've thought about easy money ever since.
Not Everything That Shines Is Meant to Be Chased
A moment from the Ramayana, and what a golden deer can teach us about mistaking urgency for importance.
What Will a Ten-Year-Old Actually Remember?
Speaking at Career Week, and choosing small truths over job titles: a bee, a water drop, and a shy boy on a school stage.
Sixteen Months In, I Realized It Was Never Just the Degree
From an awkward first meeting at Topgolf to a village built through study groups, finance quarters, and late nights, an MBA reflection sixteen months in.
This Year, I Realized I Wasn't the Listener I Thought I Was
An introvert's reflection on the difference between observing people and truly listening to them.
The Squirrel and the Bridge
Bridges don't fail where the biggest rocks are placed. They fail where the small gaps are ignored.
Sometimes, Being Present Is the Point
At my daughter's DARE graduation, a lesson about how peer pressure never really disappears, we just rename it as adults.
How Are the Butterflies Doing?
A UCLA sustainability elective, a conservationist's simple recurring question, and what it taught me about caring for something small and fragile.
Culture Survives Because People Choose to Live It
On Lunar New Year, the world's largest human migration, and a lesson from WD-40's founder on what separates culture from strategy.
Sustainability Isn't a Project You Finish
What UCLA's own power plant, underground tunnels, and native landscaping taught me about dreaming at the scale of decades.
Understanding People Is Harder Than We Think
A simple point from a David Brooks piece: most of us don't really take time to understand others. We react fast and move on.
The Real Risk Isn't Being Wrong. It's Assuming the Game Stops Moving
Walking into rooms at UCLA where I wasn't the expert taught me more than any framework did.
The 40 Year Leader vs. the 130 Year Giant: A Real Market Play
A market leader went from 25% to nearly 70% share in five years. Then a 130 year old global giant decided to enter the same market.
Holding the Stretch
A yoga practice in Singapore becomes a quiet lesson in staying with discomfort, in the body and in the mind.
When Answers Become Easy, What Happens to Thinking?
AI is making answers easier to get. I’m beginning to wonder what else the effort of getting to an answer was doing for us.
Participation Is Not Belonging
A reflection on participation, psychological safety, and what it really means to belong at work.
When Good Leadership Traits Aren't Enough
A reflection on leadership, power, and why individual strengths tell us less than we think.
Tsunami from the Sky
A reflection on floods, climate responsibility and the human help we keep waiting for.
The Contract Is the Beginning
Winning a contract is not the finish line. It is the moment someone decides to trust you.
The Most Important Thing You Negotiate Isn't the Contract
The best negotiation is not the one you win. It is the one that leaves a relationship worth continuing.
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.
Six Months Later: The AI Industry Is Acting Like One Big Startup
The layers still exist. What changed is how quickly Nvidia, Anthropic, OpenAI and the hyperscalers are willing to change the plan while executing it.
$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.
Why Oil Profits When Everything Else Gets Nervous
When conflict escalates, most industries turn cautious. Oil prices do the opposite, because production costs barely move even as fear pushes prices up.
The AI Conversation We Are Missing
Every AI conversation is about jobs. The bigger question: did the last wave of tech gains that made companies more productive ever reach everyone else?
The Energy I Didn't Know I Was Spending
AI's energy footprint isn't just data centres and water. It's also how verbosely AI responds, and whether three simple prompt changes can cut energy use.
One Small Default Changed the Outcome, 65% Shorter Answers
Early results from a study testing whether a single instruction can make AI get to the point faster, without switching models or learning prompt engineering.