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My Passport Was Kidnapped. So Was My Inner Peace: What I Learnt When I Lost My Travel Freedom for 48 Hours
I handed my three passport booklets to a courier. He vanished for 48 hours. On what it feels like to lose your identity, your freedom, and your exit door — and realise your passport was never really a document.
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All Ideas, Including Eating Protein, Need a Go-to-Market Plan: Why the Best Communicator Wins, Not the Best Thinker
A good idea is not nearly as important as explaining someone else’s idea better. On thought-leader theatre at work, WhatsApp-group democracy, and the aunt who finally convinces your parents to eat protein.
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The Art of Spending Money: What Does It Mean to Say “I Made It”?
The strange, deflating feeling of finally getting what you spent years wanting. On the difference between wanting something because it brings joy and wanting it because owning it makes you feel successful.
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AI Anxiety and the Fantasy of Early Retirement: A Midlife Career Reckoning
I’m scared AI will take my job. I also fantasize about not having one. A very stable midlife career reckoning.
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I Took a Wellness Day and Chanel took it personally
My company declared a Wellness Day. My lungs staged a coup, my voice resigned, and Chanel’s new era may debut without my personal oversight.
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From Beach Bliss to Hospital Rooms: My Glorious Return to Reality
Five days in Goa, twelve hours of reality. On the holiday afterglow that never survives the trip home.
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Echoes from the Bay: Missing San Francisco in My 40s
I lived blocks from the Bay Bridge before the pandemic. On the city that shaped me and the version of me it kept.
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Lights, Camera, Wait — Where Do I Look? Filming a Corporate Video
What happens when a quick office video shoot turns into a full production and you are the reluctant star.
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Post-Pandemic WFH: The Glorious, Glitchy Era of Working From Home
Five years after swearing off offices forever — still in joggers, still muting myself, still defending my snacks.
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The Conundrum of Coming and Going: Living Between Two Countries
Another airport lounge, another flight home. On belonging to two places and being fully at home in neither.
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