Being the first child & the first generation in the US is a journey of its own. Creating your own path, personality, future without any resources isn’t easy. All your ideas and dreams are doubted by your own family, but guess what? I’m not here to be ordinary.

In case you didn't know... Both male & female Reindeer grow antlers, but males lose them in late Autumn. All Santa’s reindeer are therefore female, which means Rudolph is persistently misgendered.

everyone is wearing indian clothing dupatta, with their dresses these days. in the era when anti indian racism is high, it's so strange to us that our styles keep getting "adopted" by the world.

I was born in Boston. I’m addicted to Dunkin Donuts coffee. I’m a Cubs fan by birth & a Yankees fan by marriage. I’m a military spouse. My husband is Italian. I’m also Hindu. I speak Bangla. I cook North Indian food. I’m American, and America is for me. Deal with it.

i can identify a tech founder from a mile away by how they lock in on an asian girl right as they enter a room

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.

Social media has made people too opinionated and negative, learn to wish people well and carry on with your life.

not an expert by any means but it seems insane to me that in a city as rich as SF we can have a substation be down denying power to like 1/3 of the city for this long

130k *households*, which SF is 2.25 ppl per household, the blackout affected nearly 300,000 residents and the uncalculated number of tourists. It was big.

the way my heart shattered into pieces when I read "my 10 year old got sick of coloring"

finding someone in your area to meal prep for you is genuinely the cheat code nobody talks about I'm paying like $150 for 20-30 bowls that last me the whole week. real food, not sad bodybuilder chicken and rice you find them on facebook groups or nextdoor, it's usually a mom or

This is what happens when someone genuinely loves their work.

I wish people understood that when someone seems to overexplain, it’s often because of how much they’ve been misunderstood. They’re trying to give you information that they assume is hard to understand based on how they’ve been treated. This deserves compassion, not criticism.

i think having small friendly interactions with strangers is so important for humanity.

sort of coming full circle here

no i love getting a link to instagram that opens in safari, then asks me to open the app, which takes me to the app store, and asks me to open the app, and then the app shows me a reel that is not the post from the link

the best productivity hack is having a friend who's slightly more successful than you that you talk to regularly someone one step above who makes you feel like "oh wait I could do that too" aspirational but not intimidating. that's the sweet spot.

Today was one of the scariest days I’ve experienced in sf, all bc of PGE

Anthropic is going to be the Apple of AI: the smaller, more luxury player, universally and rightfully beloved by the more sophisticated users

my response to anything for the next two weeks

every interaction i’ve had with an ai customer service bot (chat or call) would’ve been faster with a human