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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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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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Growing Up: On Family, Marriage and Becoming the Adult
A 6 am wake-up on a family holiday, and the quiet realisation that you are now the grown-up in the room.
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The Peace and Quiet: Finding Stillness in Central Park
Sitting in Central Park surrounded by noise, and feeling genuinely still for the first time in months.
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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.
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Treat Yourself: Why I Booked Mexico as a Reward for Working Hard
Three days in Mayakoba, earned. On rewarding yourself properly instead of waiting for permission.
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Chocolate Cake and the Art of Wanting Things
Imagining exactly what you want down to the last detail, and what happens when reality delivers something else.
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It’s Time to Go: The Loneliness of Leaving India Again
Three weeks of family, friends and work ending — and the particular dread of going back to being on your own.
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Making Friends as an Adult in a New City
A year alone in San Francisco taught me I am fine on my own — and how much harder adult friendship is to build.
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