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The Five Seconds That Changed How Decisions Get Made

It didn’t feel important when it happened, which is probably why it stuck. The reply came back with one word — “Noted” — and there was nothing behind it.No relief. No tension. No urge to reread the sent message and wonder if it was too much. That absence was the signal. Something that used to wobble had already stopped. Earlier that morning, the meeting had gone the way most meetings go when everyone wants to be agreeable and leave on time. Heads nodded. Someone said, “Sounds good.” Someone else said, “We’ll come back to it.” No one asked …

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Why I’m Not Chasing Viral Content (And Building Something Better)

Last week, I caught myself scrolling through another "how I grew my newsletter to 10K subscribers" post while my coffee went cold. The enthusiasm was infectious, the screenshots impressive, the growth curve exponential. But something felt hollow watching someone else's metrics while I sat with my own blank newsletter draft, wondering if anyone would care about my thoughts on design hiring. The breakthrough came when I stopped asking "how do I get more people to read this?" and started asking "what do the right people actually need to …

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Why I’m Finally (Maybe) Cracking the Consistency Code—A Real-Time Confession

I'm writing this at 7:42 PM on a Monday in Bangalore, still figuring out why some days I nail my routine and other days I can barely get out of bed. This isn't a success story. This is me, mid-experiment, sharing what I'm learning about consistency while still very much in the thick of figuring it out. Last week I managed to run three times, wrote two decent pieces, and made actual progress on my design hiring platform. This week I've run once, written nothing coherent until now, and spent more time reorganizing my business strategy than …

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Quiet Work, Loud Returns

There are no lights. No music. Just a stubborn chair and the kind of work that waits in silence, asking who you are when no one’s clapping. The coffee’s cold again. The inbox is piling up. That project you felt proud of last week is now a quiet weight. Still, you return. Not out of obligation, but because something in you knows this is where real things are made—in the ordinary, unglamorous middle. This stretch never makes the highlight reel. Not the launch. Not the win. Just the quiet continuity where doubt lingers and progress hides. …

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Work-Life Balance Is a Myth. Build a Rhythm Instead.

We don’t need better schedules. We need better systems. Work-life balance sounds reasonable—like a goal any responsible adult should aim for. A neat line down the middle, separating the “work” you do for a paycheck from the “life” you live for meaning. It’s tidy. Logical. Easy to say on a webinar panel. But in practice? It’s fiction. Your life doesn’t divide neatly into blocks. A sick child doesn’t care about your strategy meeting. Your deadlines don’t pause because your body needs rest. You can set your Slack to “Do Not Disturb,” but …

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What They Don’t Tell You About Being the First Designer

When Bramble—a tiny, pre-seed climate fintech startup—hired Mira, there was no “design org.” No onboarding. No system. No existing anything. There was just Mira. One designer. One product with more bugs than logic. One request from the founder:“Can you make it feel like we know what we’re doing?” She was given a Figma login, a Notion doc filled with contradictions, and a terrifying amount of freedom. And it was electric. In those early months, Mira moved fast. Not the “move fast and break things” kind—this was quieter, more …

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The Smarter You Are, the Easier It Is to Trick Yourself

Smart people don’t struggle because they lack knowledge. They struggle because they overanalyze. Every flaw gets dissected. Every hesitation comes with a well-reasoned argument. Instead of making excuses, they build entire frameworks explaining why something isn’t possible right now. Intelligence doesn’t stop self-sabotage—it makes it more sophisticated. Meanwhile, the ones making real progress aren’t caught in this loop. They don’t have the perfect plan. They don’t know all the risks. They move first, adjust later, and somehow, they get …

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The Goals You Should Fear More Than Failure

For years, I treated goal-setting like a high-stakes game. Pick a target, charge ahead, and deal with the fallout later. And for a while, it worked—until I started achieving my goals and realizing they came at a cost I hadn’t accounted for. That’s where Non-Negotiables come in. They aren’t just guardrails; they’re the invisible lines I refuse to cross. The things that, if lost, would make any achievement feel hollow. Like the time I was so focused on hitting a major career milestone that I ignored the creeping exhaustion. My workouts? …

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