May 31, 2026
The size of the gathering at a big fat Indian wedding depends on the number of people in the family. India has several different words for "family" eg parivar, gnati, gosthi etc and they mean different connections. An explainer.
May 26, 2026
Everybody has their constraints to deal with. The billionaire has no time. The young person has no money. The experienced professional may have health challenges or caregiving responsibilities. The talented newcomer has no network. Some face lack of support systems, others battle internal doubts. These aren't just constraints, they're the very conditions that force us to find edges others miss. Deliberate constraint design can create career success when you have limited resources.
May 17, 2026
Nilofer Merchant says that in the AI economy only distinctly human capabilities matter. But 84% of value creation is unmeasured. She gives you the playbook to capture it before your competitors do. Nilofer Merchant is founder of The Intangible Labs and has personally launched over 100 products generating $18 billion […]
May 7, 2026
MicroStimuli argues that human decisions are made in milliseconds by non-conscious processes. The entire tradition of trying to change behavior through awareness, information, and rational persuasion is therefore fundamentally broken.
March 22, 2026
Humans possess a tragic gift: we can activate the stress-response system through pure imagination. Zebras only activate stress when a lion actually appears. This mismatch between our bio machinery and our imagination explains why so many knowledge workers suffer stress-related diseases.
March 18, 2026
The real business book ROI comes not from royalties, but from the authority platform it creates. The result: consulting contracts, keynotes, and workbooks and coaching that gets 10-30x your direct book sales. Learn the reframed strategy that turns your manuscript into a revenue-generating asset that compounds for decades.
March 9, 2026
Many activities that create meaning are not particularly pleasant in the moment. Raising children, building institutions, caring for aging parents, pursuing difficult goals, or standing up for a cause often involve stress and sacrifice. Yet when people look back on their lives, those are the moments they consider most worthwhile.
January 29, 2026
When someone asks “where are you from,” do you pause, calculate, wonder which version of yourself to reveal? In a world of digital nomads, hybrid work, and lives split across continents, belonging has become the question we avoid because the answer might be everywhere, nowhere, or something that doesn’t fit […]
January 21, 2026
I am speaking on “Using Behavioral Science to Redesign Talent Management for the AI Economy”. The industrial economy valued interchangeability of talent as a way to run assembly lines. Using that mindset to operate in the AI Economy is the reason why workplaces are struggling. Your AI strategy is accidentally […]