## Explore Writing Collections Welcome to my digital library — a Zettelkasten-style archive of reflections, essays, and conceptual building blocks. This space is always evolving. The underlying **[[Notes|atomic notes]]**, the bite-sized insights that shape my thinking, are WIP. ### Jump to a Collection **[[#Designing Coordination Essays on Web3, Public Goods, and Decentralization|Designing Coordination]] · [[#Living Well Patterns, Pitfalls, and Personal Experiments|Living Well]] · [[#The Art of Work Navigating Careers in a Changing World|The Art of Work]] · [[#Building Better Orgs Leadership, Culture, and Design|Building Better Orgs]]** ### Explore Using Tags Click on the tags to view related articles: #AI #Careers #Climate #Consulting #Culture #DAO #Decentralization #Fiction #Leadership #Parenthood #Product #Recruiting #Startup-Finance #Web3 #Well-Being #### Designing Coordination: Essays on Web3, Public Goods, and Decentralization - [[GG24 Sensemaking - Open Data Standards, Infrastructure & Analytics for Ethereum]] (Aug 2025) - [[Gitcoin Grants 23 - A Milestone Round for Public Goods Funding]] (Jun 2025) - [[GG23 - How We’re Powering Retroactive Funding - Metrics That Matter]] (Mar 2025) - [[Predicting Public Goods Funding Using Reward Distribution Curves - An Exploratory Approach]] (Jan 2025) - [[Advancing data science on the Gitcoin Grants Stack]] (Jan 2025) - [[Looking back at Octant's funding to open source in 2024]] (Jan 2025) - [[WTF is Cluster-Matching QF?]] (Feb 2024) - [[Data-Driven Decision Making in Quadratic Funding]] (Dec 2024) - [[Navigating the Regen Movement - Key Considerations for Early-Stage Founders]] (Jun 2024) - [[Get to know about DAOs - A Campus Workshop]] (Mar 2024) - [[Questioning the Unquestioned - The Role of Inquiry in Web3's Adoption]] (Dec 2023) - [[The Role of Inquiry for a Regenerative Future]] (Nov 2023) - [[Harnessing Nature’s Wisdom for Mechanism Design]] (Oct 2023) - [[The 50-Year-Old Legacy of India's Tree Huggers]] (Sep 2023) - [[Anti-Bot Solutions for Crypto and Web3 - Why Gitcoin Passport is the Ultimate Choice]] (Sep 2023) - [[The Imperative of Decentralized Identity - Sybil Resistance and Beyond]] (Jul 2023) - [[Grants for Public Good - A Roadmap for Resilient Democratic Funding]] (Jul 2023) - [[The Power of "Politics of Artifacts" for Public Goods in Web3]] (June 2023) - [[Web3 Grants Program Tooling Landscape]] (Jun 2023) - [[Articles/Craft/Hypercerts - A new primitive for public goods funding|Hypercerts - A new primitive for public goods funding]] (Mar 2023) - [[The Case for Grant Programs]] (Jan 2023) - [[Decoding Impact DAOs (Part 1)]] (Dec 2022) - [[Decoding Impact DAOs (Part 2)]] (Dec 2022) - [[About Gitcoin — Marching towards higher quality problems]] (Nov 2022) - [[Three features I would pay for in a sufficiently decentralized social network]] (Oct 2022) - [[Curve Bonded Crowdfunding with Impact DAOs for Shared Solutions]] (Apr 2022) - [[Blockchain for Public Goods - A Prequel to Greenpilled]] (March 2022) - [[Greenpilled - Implications for India]] (March 2022) - [[Strategy for Codeless Conduct DAO]] (Proposal with [most votes](https://quadraticvote.radicalxchange.org/event?id=f47b49ca-b279-421c-bc5f-c5118f43750d) in the Community Track for [Codeless Conduct Hackathon](https://gitcoin.co/issue/1kxnetwork/codelessconduct/6/100027751), Feb 2022) - [[Open Collective As a Decentralized Global Public Good]] ([Hacker Noon](https://hackernoon.com/inside-open-collectives-effort-to-become-decentralized-for-global-public-good), Feb 2022) - [[Early Impressions of Mirror]] (Dec 2021) - [[Why Web 3.0 Communities is a Big Deal? A Non-Technical Story]] ([UX Review](https://uxdesign.cc/why-web-3-0-communities-are-a-big-deal-600c8e5013c3), Nov 2021) - [[The Decentralized Web and the Rise of Transparency-First Institutions]] ([Hacker Noon](https://hackernoon.com/the-decentralized-internet-and-redistribution-of-power), Nov 2021) - [[Potential Perils of Web 3.0 Communities]] (Oct 2021) - [[A Case for Sustainable Disruption Using DAOs]] (Sep 2021) #### Living Well: Patterns, Pitfalls, and Personal Experiments - [[You Can’t Outrun a Misaligned Life]] (Nov 2025) - [[Why 99% of the Self-Help Industry Is Slop - Gust Against Gravity]] (Oct 2025) - [[Purpose.exe - Not Found]] (Oct 2025) - [[The Physics of Desire]] (Oct 2025) - [[Why Gada Training Became My Secret Weapon for Long-Distance Cycling]] (Sep 2025) - [[My Experiments to Crack the Code of Deep Sleep]] (Jul 2025) - [[Life by a Thousand Cuts]] (Mar 2025) - [[On grieving someone you never met]] (Nov 2024) - [[You are the Average of the Problems You Tackle]] (Oct 2024) - [[The Anomalies of Attraction]] (Jul 2023) - [[If You Aren't Content Without it, You Won't be Content With it]] (Aug 2021) - [[The Most Android Human]] (Aug 2021) - [[Don't Ignore the Fascists, They Won't Ignore You]] (Aug 2021) - [[The Conformity Trap]] (Jul 2021) - [[The Creator's Paradox - Unsolicited Serendipities]] (Jul 2021) - [[The Irony of I]] (Jul 2021) - [[A Longing for Belonging]] (Jun 2021) - [[You Have the Right to Remain Silent]] (May 2021) - [[Three Revelations During the Pandemic]] (May 2021) - [[We Are Prisoners of Our Own Biases]] (Mar 2021) - [[Decoding Quality of Life]] (Apr 2021) - [[Your Reality Has Zero Value for Anyone Else]] (Apr 2021) - [[Personal Takeaways from Dr. Kapil Gupta’s Book “Direct Truth”]] (Mar 2021) - [[One with the Divine]] (Aug 2020) - [[The Unsolicited Fortunes – Fifty Things I Am Grateful For]] (Nov 2020) - [[Ten Life Lessons I Picked Up In This Decade]] ([Start it up](https://medium.com/swlh/life-lessons-5559d99c93a9) Dec 2019) - [[To Return or Not to Return (to India), That is the Question]] (Feb 2019) - [[How do the humans plead - Guilty or Not Conscious]] (Dec 2018) - [[You Maybe Going Deep in Debt and Not Even Know About it]] (Mar 2017) #### The Art of Work: Navigating Careers in a Changing World - [[AI as Amplifier - Three Shifts That Change How You Work]] (Sep 2025) - [[Most Challenging Work Experience]] (Sep 2021) - [[Equations for Building Products with Sanity]] (Jul 2021) - [[The Tyranny of Chasing Goals]] (Jul 2021) - [[5 lessons from 5 years of building products]] (Jun 2021) - [[Why Do Careers Get Stuck in the Middle Management]] ([UX Review](https://uxdesign.cc/why-do-careers-get-stuck-in-middle-management-54e8d8b0ba65), [Life at Deloitte Blog](https://www2.deloitte.com/ui/en/blog/life-deloitte-blog/2021/why-do-careers-get-stuck-in-middle-management.html) May 2021) - [[How Can An Engineer Transition into Product Management]] (Apr 2021) - [[The Title Trap in Transitioning into Product Roles]] (Mar 2021) - [[Building Sustainable Careers in Product]] (Mar 2021) - [[Title Inflation in Product Management]] (Mar 2021) - [[A Litmus Test for Your Future Workplace]] (Mar 2021) - [[10 Questions to Ask Interviewers on Work Culture]] (Feb 2021) - [[The Product Management Grid]] (Published in [UX Review](https://uxdesign.cc/product-management-grid-a5f392f6e4a5), [Hacker Noon](https://hackernoon.com/what-do-product-managers-do-r1203wny)) (Sep 2020) - [[Do You Need to be a Product Manager to Apply Product Thinking]] (Published in [UX Review](https://uxdesign.cc/you-dont-need-the-title-of-a-product-manager-to-apply-product-thinking-ba1f45b37c5f), [Life at Deloitte Blog](https://www2.deloitte.com/ui/en/blog/life-deloitte-blog/2020/product-manager-apply-product-thinking.html)) (Sep 2020) - [[The Secret Weapon of a Successful Consultant is Not to Behave Like One]] (May 2020) - [[Why Is “Do You Have Any Questions” One of The Most Important Questions In Your Interview]] ([Start it up](https://medium.com/swlh/why-is-do-you-have-any-questions-one-of-the-most-important-questions-in-your-interview-96f2fa0c5826) Oct 2019) - [[Work Principles and Belief Systems — Two Sides of the Same Coin]] ([Start it up](https://medium.com/swlh/work-and-belief-7fb2fe8bc143) Sep 2019) - [[The Three Most Unexplored Aspects of A Job Switch in Early Career Transitions]] ([Start it up](https://medium.com/swlh/the-three-most-unexplored-aspects-of-a-job-switch-in-early-career-transitions-520c8b82dc59) May 2019) - [[The Irony in the Pursuit of One’s Purpose — The Story of Namma Studio]] (Jul 2018) - [[The Enigma of Executive Presence]] (Jun 2018) - [[10 Tweets to My Younger Self Signing Up for a Career In Consulting 10 Years Ago]] (Oct 2017) #### Building Better Orgs: Leadership, Culture, and Design - [[The Hidden Economics Behind Enterprise Software Choices]] (Jun 2024) - [[Cohort Created Course - A Creator Community Experiment]] (Nov 2021) - [[Story of a Note, a SAFE, and a KISS]] (Nov 2021) - [[The Holy Grail for the Enabling Tech for Cohort-Based Courses]] (Jun 2021) - [[The Power of Healthy Skepticism for Popular Opinions]] (Jun 2021) - [[A Brief Look at Alternative VC Funding Models]] (May 2021) - [[Nailing the Interview as an Interviewer]] (Mar 2021) - [[A rant and a wishlist for ed-tech in India]] ([UX Review](https://uxdesign.cc/a-rant-and-a-wishlist-for-ed-tech-in-india-c3105276a79f) Jan 2021) - [[The Secret to Building Sustainable Businesses]] ([Start it up](https://uxdesign.cc/building-sustainable-business-94e0fe6f2793) Mar 2020) - [[Litmus Test for Leadership]] ([Start it up](https://medium.com/swlh/the-litmus-test-for-leadership-when-values-collide-during-a-pandemic-2305df476053), Mar 2020) - [[The Art of Engineering]] (Jul 2020) - [[The Digital Transformation Trap — Compromising Human Experience with Agility and Speed]] ([UX Review](https://uxdesign.cc/digital-transformation-trap-63c0dba58cf6), [Life at Deloitte Blog](https://www2.deloitte.com/ui/en/blog/life-deloitte-blog/2019/digital-transformation-trap.html) Oct 2019) - [[The Making of a Megathon]] (Aug 2019) - [[Design for All - A Transformation from Group Thinking to Design Thinking]] ([Start it up](https://uxdesign.cc/design-for-all-defd7b0e7c77) June 2019) - [[Designing An Authentic Work Culture - Part 1]] (Oct 2018) - [[Designing An Authentic Work Culture - Part 2]] (Oct 2018) - [[Designing An Authentic Work Culture - Part 3]] (Oct 2018)