Even though I was in the US for just 1 month, I feel like I’ve lost 90% of the Hindi I picked up since moving to Mumbai

It’s crazy what my workday looks like as an actor compared to just 6 months ago when I had a job in tech. Obviously I knew a “day in the life” would be different, but I didn’t know I could just wake up one day and make that happen for myself 🤯

“He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.” — Jean-Luc Godard

Life lately

One year ago, I sat down to write a script for the first time, and I had a meltdown bc I didn’t know how. Pls see Tok below. WELL — I just finished the first draft of my first script EVER …🤯 tiktok.com/t/ZTRneNbDE/

Watching Peaky Blinders makes me think…would it really be so bad to be a chain smoker??

Sign that my mind is getting used to living in India: I just read the word hybrid as Hyderabad 🙃

This is great once again by shivani ⚡️ Have you ever considered the difference when feeling like this? open.substack.com/pub/shiv/p/are…

“Like sine and cosine waves, our existential worry and executional worry swim away from *and* towards each other eternally in the helix that forms our life.” Feb newsletter is live!! shiv.substack.com/p/are-you-exci…

In 2016, Pharrell Williams visited an N.Y.U. music production class to critique student songs. After he listened to a song called “Alaska” by a student named Maggie Rogers, he explained why “I have zero, zero, zero notes for that:”

Latest newsletter is out! Exploring the power of language, semantics, and how my understanding of these things is evolving as a first-time-director shiv.substack.com/p/life-is-in-t…

Would you rather go to jail for 1 year or go to jail with an unsolved Rubik’s cube and you can leave once you solve it?

Perhaps flourishing is less about seeing reality as it really is and more about adopting the right reality distortion field at the right time while not getting caught up in the contradictions along the way. e.g. When playing to win, treating it as the only thing that matters

Healthcare in India is largely free market. You can build and deploy things fast. Untold potential for founders here and many unicorns yet to be built.

Give Yourself Some House Money, by shivani ⚡️ reshaped how I thought about time: open.substack.com/pub/shiv/p/giv…

Has anyone done a creative residency or writers’ retreat that they loved?! Looking for something in-person! Pls DM w any leads 🙌🏾