Earlier this week, I took a couple of colleagues to the Gandhi Ashram while we were in Ahmedabad. It wasn’t meant to be a profound moment. It was their first…
Last week, I wrote about why the world is rethinking America. Not as a protest, and not as a rejection, but as a recalculation — driven by a growing sense…
Why the World Is Rethinking America: The Country That Forgot Why Talent Came The world is rethinking America. Not loudly. Not angrily. But deliberately. In counseling offices in Delhi and…
What Fear Means After You’ve Already Left Thirty-four years ago, I left home. I didn’t call it courage. I didn’t call it bravery. I didn’t even call it a choice.…
Every new year begins with the same comforting assumption: that what comes next will be a cleaner, calmer extension of what came before. It won’t be. The real risk we…
The Things We Forget We Survived: An Inventory Before Moving Forward The end of the year is a strange time. Everyone starts talking like philosophers. New year, fresh start, resolutions,…
Two places. Two tragedies. Brown University. Bondi Beach. Different countries. Different contexts. Same ending. A brief moment of shock. A rush of posts. Carefully worded grief. “Thoughts and prayers.” “This…
cooked adjective having achieved a state of failure; being doomed I’ve spent the past year across continents and at conferences, listening to our field take its own temperature. Last week’s…
The Immigrant Paradox: Why the Last One In Slams the Door Shut I met an old friend for dinner last week. Like me, he’s an immigrant — came to the…
Radical Gratitude: The Kind That Costs You Something Thanksgiving arrives like clockwork, wrapped in ritual and softness. We gather around tables, pass bowls, rehearse a script we all know by…
I am an immigrant. Or maybe an expat. Or maybe the line between the two says more about power than identity. I came to America almost 34 years ago carrying…
The Sound of Nothing: What the 6-7 Craze Reveals About a Generation on Loop “6-7, I just bipped right on the highway (bip, bip) Skrrt… I just bipped right on…