Blog tagged as leadership

From Roark to Real: Learning to Show My Work

Austin Kleon's book, Show Your Work! is a small and short book, but it has had an outsized impact on me. Discovering Austin's book seemed like the literal manifestation of the quote — when the student is ready, the teacher appears — often attributed to Buddhism.

I have always leaned towards th...

13 Apr 2025 01:20 PM

The Joys of Building

By Suraj

A reflection on rediscovering joy through making — from IDEO workshops to lines of code to pixels on a screen.

11 Apr 2025 08:12 PM

You might be right!

By Suraj

Surprisingly, those four words are my magic escape from non-essential intellectual arguments.

As someone who is curious, I've grown comfortable with my ignorance on a variety of topics. Even in areas that interest me, I'm most excited by what I don't know.

A couple of years ago, I came across a&...

06 Apr 2025 08:00 PM

Social Change is Hard. Personal Change is Harder

By Suraj

I never expected social change to be easy. But in the early days of my career in the sector, I was confident that I could easily pick up the skills needed to create social change. And with my middle-class dreams of seeing the world, I imagined moving from place to place, creating meaningful cha...

04 Apr 2025 08:35 PM

The Essay That Deserves Your Solitude

By Suraj

Since Sunday, I have been mulling on this quote by Edward Gibbon - "Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius."

Yesterday, aft...

01 Apr 2025 05:20 PM