If 2024 was the year generative AI proved it could talk, mid-2025 was when agentic AI proved it could do. The market stopped obsessing over clever outputs and started demanding completed workflows. That single shift explains why AI agents became the loudest, fastest-moving trend across enterprise AI adoption. “The promise is not conversation. The promise…
Digital Detox
My thumb reaches for my phone before I even notice. The screen lights up, and I am pulled into it. Not because I need something urgent, but because it has become a habit. It fills the gaps in my day without me asking it to. For me, it is mostly LinkedIn. I do not really…
A New Year. A clearer lens – 2026
As the year turns, I find myself connecting the dots across life, work, and leadership. Some personal resolutions I’m stepping into this year: • Keep innovating and learning at work and beyond. Growth comes from curiosity, consistency, and honoring your own pace.• Earn more, but give back meaningfully. Impact is about changing lives, not creating…
What Recent IT Services Acquisitions Really Tell Us
The recent acquisition activity in the Indian IT services industry has sparked predictable reactions—excitement in some quarters, skepticism in others. But looked at through an analyst’s lens, moves by companies like Tata Consultancy Services and Coforge are less about headline numbers and more about a deeper structural shift underway in the market. These deals are…
When the Fear of Losing Someone Lives Inside You
Losing my father suddenly changed something inside me that I didn’t notice right away. In the beginning, I was just trying to survive the shock, the rituals, the silence, the strange emptiness that fills a house when a voice goes missing. But as time moved on, I realized the loss had left behind something else…
No One Will Ask, It’s Your Journey
No one will ask why you began,or what pushed you to keep going when the road grew heavy.They won’t see the nights you cried yourself steady,or the mornings you rose pretending you were fine. People notice success, not survival.They celebrate the finish line, not the quiet miles in between.And sometimesthey won’t even know, or care…
The Music Inside Her
The first thing that struck me wasn’t the melody. It was the pause. That tiny, stunned silence after Scott Mills asked Taylor Swift if The Life of a Showgirl would be her “last album” now that she’s engaged. You could almost hear the world tilt for a second, as if the air in the studio…
The Salt of Healing
A cure for all, so simple yet profound,Is found where salt and water both abound.Three forms it takes, three paths for heart and mind:In sweat, in tears, in sea the cure we find. The sweat of toil, our body’s honest song..It shapes the weak, it makes the weary strong.Each drop that falls upon the earth…
The End of “Tool First” SaaS
Why the salestech unicorns stumbled — and what the next generation must learn The fall of 6Sense, Gainsight, Outreach, Clari, and their peers isn’t just about budgets tightening or playbooks going stale. Those are symptoms. The deeper problem is this: They were built for a market that no longer exists. 1. SaaS grew up in…
The Silent Bond
A daughter often knows her mother’s mindwithout a single word being spoken.She feels the quiet sigh,she sees the hidden worry,she hears the silence louder than speech. It is a bond that lives beyond languagea thread of love woven from yearsof shared laughter,shared tears,and quiet moments that needed no sound. A mother’s glance is a message,her…