Not every breakthrough looks like a summit. Sometimes it’s just staying still. Silence doesn’t always feel calm. Sometimes it presses in. The kind of silence that arrives when plans fall through, when your phone runs out of battery, when the day ends too early and you're not ready to face yourself. No screens. No background noise. Just you. We aren’t taught how to handle that kind of stillness. We’re trained to chase momentum, to measure meaning in milestones. Ordinary moments get treated like filler—as if life is a waiting room and …
How AI is Reshaping Design Leadership and Designer Hiring
One afternoon, a designer slid a portfolio across the table. Immaculate work. Every detail whispered precision—layout, type, flow. But something about it felt… plastic. “Midjourney did most of it,” he admitted. And just like that, the illusion shattered. AI hadn’t just entered the room—it had redecorated it and started hosting interviews. AI is no longer experimental; it’s operational. Inside product teams, it’s writing code, sketching interfaces, even making hiring decisions. And in the middle of it all, design leaders are being told to …
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I Didn’t Forgive Them. I Outgrew the Need To.
My grandmother used to say, “Forgiveness is good for the soul.” But when I was thirty-two, crying into an old T-shirt on my bedroom floor, her voice felt about as useful as a paper umbrella in a storm. Because what do you do when forgiveness doesn’t feel holy? When it doesn’t feel healing? When it just feels like another item on the already insufferable to-do list of being “the bigger person”? I wasn’t interested in grace. I wanted quiet. Not peace—quiet. The kind that sits inside your body like a weighted blanket. The kind where you …
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The Quiet Strength Nobody Talks About
On Day 2 of my period, I cancel a Zoom call, reheat the same cup of coffee for the third time, and stare at the ceiling fan like it owes me rent. Meanwhile, my maid walks in, sweeping and cooking like it’s any other day. I don’t even know when she gets her period—she never lets on. I lie there, curled up with a hot water bag, and think: how is she this steady while I’m a puddle of hormones and heat packs? Women in offices don’t miss a beat either. Sharp kurtas, back-to-back meetings, probably managing cramps beneath the table while giving …
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You Don’t Have to Be Special to Be Free
How letting go of my craving for uniqueness gave me back my life It’s easy to confuse visibility with value. I didn’t realize I’d done that until the applause I thought I needed started sounding like static. I had built a life on making an impression. I don’t mean fame or followers or any of the easy metrics. I mean that internal scoreboard—silent, persistent, constantly measuring whether I was significant enough. Whether I was doing something interesting enough. Whether I was someone people remembered after they left the room. At …
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I Don’t Want to Be the Version of Me That Gets Applause
People liked her. She was agreeable. Reliable. Great in a group photo and even better at conflict avoidance. If someone needed emotional CPR, she’d do it with a smile and a spreadsheet. People said she had boundaries. What they didn’t know was that she’d just stopped asking for anything. That version of me could defuse a room in ten words or less. She knew how to tuck her needs under the rug, flatten every reaction, and leave a conversation looking like it never scratched her. Clean. Contained. Pleasant. But pleasant is a trap. It’s how …
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