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I woke up a little dejected this morning. With a sense of futility and fatigue that eclipses the extremes of physical and mental burnout.…
Excerpts From Sangamner
Thursday, March 5th, 2020–1:23pm, Sangamner, India. All kinds of humbled right now. It is my second day here in Sangamner, and it feels…
How Can We Impact Well-Being?
Using Machine Learning To Find Out Where To Start I did an immersive Data Science boot-camp to learn how to better use data to help…
Jagriti Yatra: The Mother Of All Roller Coasters
Okay no, so it’s not an actual roller coaster. Jagriti Yatra is a fifteen-day 8,000-kilometer train ride that lugs over 700 people around…
Nairobi & Beyond
“This doesn’t normally happen around here,” My new boss explained, a little worried. It was the first day at my apprenticeship in Nairobi,…
A Bridge For Change In Tanzania
Ocheck Msuva’s story needs to be heard. Rejection Ocheck’s existence began with rejection. When his mother found out that she was…
Escaping Conversations Not Worth Having
I am running out of patience for conversations that aren’t either humorous or sensible. Darker the humour, the better. The more truth plus…
Round 2: Kenya
Hello Nairobi! Hold on, let’s back up for a second. For the good or the bad, I am a planner. Almost two years ago, I grew a pair and quit…
Harari-chal Earthquakes
I finished Homo Deus a week or so ago, and just wanted more Harari in my life. And I got more Harari in my life. Enter 21 Lessons for the…
Traveling Is Dead. Get Immersed And Contribute.
Tourism was dead ages ago. Travelling is dying, if not already dead. What’s in right now is contributive immersion. Here me out. I have two…
Oh Guatemala, Thank You
Fifteen months. I was supposed to stay there for six. This was my first hurrah outside of “conventional” life, outside of society’s…
“Winners Take All” — Dissecting Anand Giridharadas’ Nudification Of The Elites
Anand Giridharadas is an alarmist. Of the good kind though. He spends about 300 or so pages in his new book dismantling the whole…