Babblings
This personal blog is a portal through which I do my best deep soul snorkeling, about design to relationships, to life.
I'm sure that you love to travel. You probably have a list of cities and places you've been to, and another list detailing all the place you want to go to in your lifetime. …
It's been a lot of weddings this year and I've made some observations in the last couple months that I wanted to capture. It's a celebration of the people they have become up to …
Every time I come back from a trip, I am bursting with travel ideas and advice. This entry is a little all over the place, but take what pertains to your flavor of traveling! …
These are some musings I've been having of late as I've met quite a variety of people through bhangra, improv, and other classes. The central question: What does it mean to be intelligent? I've …
This piece has been edited from a Toastmasters speech that I wrote. What do you see?A square right. Let’s give this square a bit more power.And it becomes a cube. And you know what …
How does one navigate and organize information?This is the problem I've been tackling within my current role as a VUI designer in the Alexa Info UX org. From a product design perspective, this is …
I decided to share some of my poetry at a South Asian Open Mic Night. Although I signed up with some form of raw adrenaline, I was literally shaking when I read my two …
I originally wrote this as a Toastmasters speech but thought I'd share as it has a lot of thoughts around performance, comedy, and learning. I work on Alexa, a virtual assistant that help users …
This was a year of healing. From moving homes to moving jobs, it was about acknowledgement that I wasn't in a good place and pulling myself out of it. This year was about establishing …
When you start a new job, everyone gives you bits of advice to take your co-workers out for coffee, or study up before your first day. What they don't tell you is how to …
I acknowledge and pay respect to the Traditional Custodians on whose land I live, play, and work. I pay my deepest respects to all Indigenous Elders past, present and emerging.
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