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Jan 2

Can I wish you a happy new year and also call bullshit on ‘new year’?

Can I wish you a happy new year and also call bullshit on ‘new year’? Wtf is a ‘new year’ anyway? It’s a way to mark both the passage of time and its cyclical nature. There are many ways to do that and today is just one. The year 2023…

New Year

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Can I wish you a happy new year and also call bullshit on ‘new year’?
Can I wish you a happy new year and also call bullshit on ‘new year’?
New Year

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Dec 27, 2022

Talking to, not about, the world.

This Christmas Eve, with my palm nestled in my beloved’s, I watched ducks bathe in the marsh as the sky above caught flame. Overcome by the elements manifesting themselves so magnificently, I called out to them, “Thank you so so much. Thank you, thank you, thank you!” …

Wonder

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Talking to, not about, the world.
Talking to, not about, the world.
Wonder

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Jun 14, 2021

Celebrating Stanford’s White Feminism

In March 2020, after many meetings providing detailed feedback, I posted the following essay about my disturbing experience at the previous year’s Women in Management (WIM) banquet at Stanford’s business school. Despite prior approval to post, I was asked to take down the essay which I agreed to do temporarily…

Stanford

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Celebrating Stanford’s White Feminism
Celebrating Stanford’s White Feminism
Stanford

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May 6, 2021

One simple way to support Indian-Americans and two bonus.

Sometime in the mid-2000s, my cousin and I called each other excitedly during a Superbowl: Did you see that Indian guy in the Budweiser ad?! We felt we had finally arrived: to be included in something as American as beer and football! While I empathize with Hari Kondabolu’s campaign against…

India

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One simple way to support Indian-Americans and two bonus.
One simple way to support Indian-Americans and two bonus.
India

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Apr 30, 2020

The problem with ‘giving back’.

In 2006, I spent a few months in India to help launch Google’s sales offices. It was a thrill to return as a professional to the homeland I’d left when I was nine. One day, I was excited to see a street vendor selling a favorite childhood snack. He charged…

Charity

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The problem with ‘giving back’.
The problem with ‘giving back’.
Charity

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Apr 5, 2020

The flow of fear.

I have surprised myself with my steadiness amidst the troubles of this year, of which the COVID-19 pandemic is the latest and obviously worst. I recently journaled to unpack what is supporting my steadiness so I could use it more consciously. I’m sharing the process I doodled as my journal…

Fear

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The flow of fear.
The flow of fear.
Fear

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Jun 22, 2019

The delicate beast within my breast.

Something is alive in me. The fluttering in my heart is not its own beat, it’s the desperate wings of a baby bird, soft and yellow like a duckling, trapped in my atria. It pecks at my heart constantly, its clawing and thrashing a maddening irritation. All the time, I’m…

Magical Realism

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The delicate beast within my breast.
The delicate beast within my breast.
Magical Realism

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Nov 8, 2018

One two-piece suit and three points bias.

I don’t know why I paused on this video in my feed but idle curiosity kept me watching. A previous colleague, now CEO of his own company, offered tips to sales reps on dressing for success. …

Diversity

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One two-piece suit and three points bias.
One two-piece suit and three points bias.
Diversity

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Feb 14, 2018

Black Panther breaks my brown heart.

While waiting to meet a friend, I came across this wonderful essay on the new Black Panther movie. Even the abstract cut into me and immediately brought tears to my eyes: Ryan Coogler’s film is a vivid re-imagination of something black Americans have cherished for centuries — Africa as a…

Race

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Black Panther breaks my brown heart.
Black Panther breaks my brown heart.
Race

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Jul 24, 2017

Freedom is personal.

One Thanksgiving during college, I brought home a few friends who didn’t live locally to the university. After dinner, we meandered through the social abyss of my suburban neighborhood and bought cigarettes at a nearby 7–11. …

Freedom

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Freedom is personal.
Freedom is personal.
Freedom

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Mansi Goel

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Insight addict. Liberation enthusiast. EQ gymnast.

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