June 17, 2026
Power isn't a personality trait reserved for the bold and the loud.
It's a skill. A learnable, practiceable, improvable skill.
And the people who refuse to learn it don't become more virtuous for it.
They just become invisible.
June 16, 2026
There is a word you need to know. It comes from Urdu, Hindi, and Persian. It is spelled h-u-n-a-r. Hunar is pronounced the way it looks. And once you understand what it means, you will never think about your career, your talent, or your own potential in quite the same way again.
June 16, 2026
John Maeda's 2026 Design in Tech report reveals what designers must learn as AI reshapes the field — from speaking machine to designing for trust.
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 30, 2026
AI transformation is not only about technology. It is about identity, trust, work, and what it means to remain valuable when the rules are changing. I joined @Shivangi Walke on Leadership at the Edge of AI to speak about the human side of AI transformation: why AI time and human time are […]
May 29, 2026
Our talent systems were designed for a world of abundant talent. Talent is routinely discarded after use. Retain, Retrain, Return and Reimagine are the four pillars of the circular economy.
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 15, 2026
The servers do not get thirsty. The citizens do. And when there is water shortage, the servers will simply move to the next country that forgot to ask the right question first. India, in its rush to become the world’s AI infrastructure hub, is sleepwalking into a water catastrophe that […]