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The effort that gets you to level one does not get you to level two. What was once the sky, the goal you were reaching for, becomes the floor you are standing on. The next level needs something different. The question is: do you know what the next one actually requires? Because that is what is standing between current you and future you.

In many parts of India, the birth of a daughter is met with silence, grief, or worse. Whispers about blame, about back-room ultrasounds, about pregnancies that quietly ended after. I grew up in Bihar hearing these stories, but they stayed abstract, distant. Then I was standing in a hospital hallway, and one happened right in front of me.

Jumping into the playground—Akhada—and figuring out the best possible outcome as you go. In the playground, there are only two possibilities: you win or you lose. The clarity is real. Even losing teaches you the game and makes you better for the next time.

Turning a personal timezone annoyance into a 350-page SEO experiment while actually building something useful

The biggest debt we all pay is the ignorance debt. But what does it actually mean? What we don’t know still costs us, and I think we’ve all been paying it without even realizing.

This summer, I spent a few weeks in Galicia, Spain, and finally did something I had been thinking about for years; walk the Camino Inglés. It was a 3day, 76 km hike through forests, small villages, and lots of pain and joy. I packed light, relied on motivation, met some amazing people, and questioned all my life choices somewhere around the last 8 km of Day 2. But I made it, and I am so glad I did.

Last week, I spoke about Servo at the Ubuntu Summit on its 20th anniversary. It was both humbling and inspiring to share the same stage with the CEO of Canonical, Mark Shuttleworth. Here is a small story about how Ubuntu and open source have played a big role in my life and career