Archive - of all trades

We don't build for exceptions

+ quick links + cheeky reflections

Dec 6, 2024 •

November 2024

of product: lessons from duolingo

inside: the big green language-teaching owl, india pale ale and kanan gill's comedy special

Nov 24, 2024 •

October 2024

8 minutes for 'what we will'

Although it might have worked in the past, the May-Day model is just not true anymore. I hear the cries for the need to do what we will, if not for 8…

Oct 30, 2024 •

August 2024

Begin again - the movie, the songs and this part of my life

Aug 20, 2024 •

July 2024

Life lessons from being a part of an early stage startup

An early-stage startup is like a baby.

Jul 25, 2024 •

May 2024

Anti-Retrograde

On going from spinning in a direction opposite to one’s own axis to steadily moving forward

May 22, 2024 •

April 2024

Drawing with Kids and Ramayana

Kucchu, as we called the younger one, coloured him as if he was mad—his words, not mine. Then, he named him Raavan, the ten-headed evil king who abducts…

Apr 14, 2024 •

When the land is pulled away from under you, tell me—can you still worry about your woes on the water?

Apr 2, 2024

February 2024

The unborn robins

April heat, the robin's nest and baby ghosts

Feb 29, 2024

January 2024

The thing that was shaped like a story

"I would get on the ground, plaster the side of my face to the earth, close one eye and try to position my gaze in line with their file."

Jan 29, 2024

December 2023

What are the lost things?

Same Walk, Different Shoes

Dec 29, 2023 •

November 2023

The Wounded Tigress

Nov 29, 2023

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