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  • The Actual End Game: Career Advice Nobody Puts on a Panel

    After a panel full of clichéd five-year-plan questions, what people actually queued up to ask me.

    Neha Thapar
    May 1, 2019

  • I Am a Girl and I Hate Stuffed Toys: On Corporate Women’s Events

    They handed out stuffed dogs at a women in leadership panel. Nobody hands crocodiles to men in tech.

    Neha Thapar
    January 19, 2019

  • You Are an Idiot and I Can’t Say It to Your Face: Working With Difficult People

    Everything that runs through my head when dealing with wilful incompetence, and why none of it gets said.

    Neha Thapar
    January 11, 2019

  • Back to School: The First Day Back After a Holiday

    Two weeks of sun, food and ocean, then the desk, the inbox, and a marriage conducted across time zones.

    Neha Thapar
    January 7, 2019

  • And It’s a Wrap: Surviving a Reorg at Work

    A division-wide reorganisation, a tired team, and what a year of relentless change does to a leader.

    Neha Thapar
    December 21, 2018

  • The Art of Doing Nothing: In Defence of a Lazy Weekend

    Why staying indoors, wandering room to room and achieving nothing is a perfectly respectable weekend.

    Neha Thapar
    December 15, 2018

  • You Carry the Burden: On Diversity Training and Hidden Bias

    A workplace session on inclusion, and the comment from a colleague that showed how little we know ourselves.

    Neha Thapar
    December 12, 2018

  • Financially Independent by 35: How I Actually Did It

    Debt free, two houses nearly paid off, and the obsessive saving habit that got me there before 35.

    Neha Thapar
    December 2, 2018


Glitter in my greys

Because midlife deserves more sparkle and less subtlety.

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