My Friend, His Wedding, and Caste-Based Matrimony(anonymous blog post, June 2025) One of my very close friends here in the Valley, let's call him Ravi, is getting married this fall.…

Here’s a topic that rarely makes it to Medium posts or LinkedIn threads: dating among co-workers. But let’s be honest, if you work at a startup, especially a small one,…

When I first joined a startup company in Silicon Valley, I told myself this would be just a couple of years of grinding into the corporate world, a sprint, not…

If you walk into any office in Silicon Valley and randomly shoot a look, you'll hear so many different accents, see faces from all corners of the globe and realise…

If you think Silicon Valley is collaborative, please think again. I'm an engineer at a startup in the Bay Area. We like to tell ourselves that we are solving big…

I'm writing this on a Friday evening from the open-plan office of an "AI first" startup in SoMa. The lights have been dimmed, and half the team has disappeared for…