Category: Thoughts

  • A Treasure that has been Lost

    What is a treasure that has been lost? Today’s Bloganuary prompt got me thinking, what would that mean? When a treasure gets lost, does it stop being a treasure? Or is it about treasures that one has lost? The word treasure takes me to the timeless classic: The Count of Monte Cristo – the story…

  • The Earliest Memory I Have

    Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them. Bob Dylan Today, I was talking to a friend about bad memories from the past, about how traumatic past memories were. My friend shared a quote from J.R.R. Tolkien in relation to her point as well, which really struck me: I will not walk…

  • Hello 2023!

    Behold, it’s 2023 already! Here in India, as I write this, the first day of the year is almost over – it’s close to 11 PM on January 1st. 2022 – what a year! The year was a heady mix of highs and lows. After two long years of the pandemic, I got a chance…

  • Reflecting on a Sabbatical

    Reflecting on a Sabbatical

    I just completed three months of sabbatical at Automattic and rejoined work last week. It’s been one of the best life experiences I have ever had and it changed my life, my perspectives, and even me, as a person! The very day I joined Automattic, six years ago on a warm summer morning, I read…

  • How am I changing the World?

    If you’ve been following my work for a while, you would have noticed that I keep talking about my dream of “making the world and the web a better place.” I picked up the latter part of that goal from Automattic’s mission. As our lives are going increasingly online (and as we are talking more…

  • Be Kind

    I was inspired by Matt’s birthday message on crafting a writing habit. I’ve been doing this for a few days now (as part of bloganuary), and I’m enjoying this. I’m treating this blog like a journal, pouring my mind in here… And then I thought, I’d need a motto like Matt, to follow this year.…

  • On uncertainty

    I’m moving away a bit from today’s prompt, because I want to share something on uncertainty. Even when the world around us is bringing us deterministic prediction models based on sophisticated AI/ML technologies, we still find it difficult to predict the future. The world around us keeps giving advices. No one expected a global pandemic,…

  • Do I even like my writing?

    I started writing when I was school. When I say writing, I mean, “writing”, as a hobby. I was egged on by my then-English teacher Deepa Pillai ma’am, who encoruaged me to share my unchecked ramblings with the whole wide world. I was standing on the shoulder of giants, watching my seniors at school share…

  • Someone that Inspires Me

    I might sound a wee bit corny, but the reality is that the person that inspires me is none other than my wife, Archana. Have you ever come across the term: Baptism by fire? It means to be able to fight through adverse circumstances to come out clean. Archana has fought some of life’s biggest…

  • Something I Wish I Knew How to Do

    I’m a wishful thinker, and I keep wishing for so many things. In fact, I yearn for things all the time. And, at any point in time, I keep yearning for something! It’s a fact. Here’s a list of random things that I wish I’d knew how to do: I wish I knew how to…