About me: A writer, operator, systems thinker, and perpetual dot-connector
I am a reader and writer first and foremost. I am also a creative tinkerer, a staunch patron of dying arts like letter-writing and diary-keeping, an interior design fiend, and a growing gym bro.
I’m curious about just about anything as long as I get a whiff of a good story from it, and so my personal research practice is extremely multi-dimensional.
I think of myself as a Third Culture Kid, having been brought up in Nigeria, India and Dubai (and studied in England for a bit). I have a strong tendency to feel most at home first at home, and then in the in-betweens. I live and work in Bengaluru, India, a city that I consider a formative part of my identity.
I am an NCTJ-accredited journalist by training, but fell into the tech world early very early on in my career. My work and writing draw from my deliberately interdisciplinary background: between undergrad and postgrad, I’ve studied and practiced journalism, English literature and theory, sociology, economics, psychology, philosophy, ethics, print design, and political science.
Right now, I’m at Pixxel building their brand and narrative arm. Previously, I worked at PhonePe, India’s largest fintech startup. I spent my days chewing on problems of narrative design, org culture and brand-building. Before that, I spent four years at Obvious, an award-winning product consultancy, as the Chief of Staff to the founders and general Swiss Army Knife.
My newsletter, Kindred Spirits, is where I write on agentic ways of living and making meaning.
Published writing
I write both to think and to tell a story. Here are some of those stories I’ve documented in the last couple of years:
- A modernist structure in Bengaluru’s oldest neighbourhood, for Paper Planes
- Material memory: Vessels of change, for Dhoop (only in print)
- The past hides in a bowl of saaru, for Memories on a Plate (only in print)
- The many ways one can love a book, for Borderless Journal
- Seeing Japan in Noguchi and Noguchi in Japan, for G5A Foundation
- Home is everywhere and nowhere at once, for The Curator
- Jars of pickle and whisperings of generations, for Kitaab
- Finding your personal Zone of Genius, for Humanise
- Your message lives here, for ISHTBAFSTD, Yummy Colors’ Concept of the Year