Akkshaya Varkhedi

they taught her to walk in straight lines, chin down, voice tucked in, feet careful not to leave a mark. and for a while, she did. she listened. to advice disguised as love, to correction disguised as care. even when the ground felt borrowed. even when the

Every product pitch, every investor deck, every LinkedIn post chants the same thing.

The longer I’ve been in product, the more I realize that intuition doesn’t just come from data.

I’ve stopped believing that alignment means everyone agrees.

Negative self talk is sneaky.

There’s this pattern that shows up at work for so many of us: the craving to be liked.

some days i care too much. other days, not at all. i swing between urgency and numbness, between needing to be seen and wanting to disappear. i attach myself to whatever moves, a reaction, a message, a silence that feels louder than it should. and i call…

I hate how the word stress is thrown around so casually these days.

We all love getting positive feedback.

Source: Pinterest When the wave of AI hit the internet, I was largely unaware of it.