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A Small Story of Luck, Timing, and Good People

A Small Story of Luck, Timing, and Good People

Bar isn’t low. It’s non-existent.

Bar isn’t low. It’s non-existent.

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1-2 sentences. Either summary or first few lines

Amazon UK launches Pay-By-Bank with True Layer

Amazon UK launches Pay-By-Bank with True Layer

Wero and EuroPA: solving for Interoperability in EU

Wero and EuroPA: solving for Interoperability in EU

I am an Olympic Torchbearer

Just a kid who dreamed of holding the Olympic torch one day!

Good health is a privilege

1-2 sentences. Either summary or first few lines

Seamless checkout with Click to Pay

Seamless checkout with Click to Pay

Agentic Commerce - Early days

The Beginnings of Agentic Commerce

Can you do it everyday?

Above all, consistency wins.

Do hard things to have nice things

Training the brain and body to do hard things. So that life becomes easy.

Grass is greener in SW19

Camping / Queuing for Wimbledon 2025

Singapore Family Trip 2025

Planning a big family vacation is tough but rewarding

Visa Direct: How Visa is transforming money movement with innovative solutions

Collect, Convert, Hold, Send: Move money globally with Visa Direct

Acknowledgements

Practicing communicating my acknowledgements and gratitude

Surgery#3 - 1 Month update

1 month update post ACL surgery #3

Schemes and processing in Payments

In Payments - What is a Scheme? What is processing?

A sunny summer day in London

A walk on a sunny day in London Summer

Broken - My journey of 3 ACL tears and rehab

A timeline of my ACL injuries and rehab

Lessons from my wedding

Somethings I think I learnt to do better after my wedding

The video game industry and how does payments fit in the ecosystem

Video Gaming isnt a small niche. Its a massive industry with a complex ecosystem. I try and explore this a bit.

What is IMAX and Dolby and what really is the difference?

Comparing the cinema experience in an IMAX theatre vs a Dolby theatre

Things I hate. Things I love.

There are not a lot of things I hate. And there are a few things I love. This is about them.

Tokenisation in payments

A beginners guide to understanding tokenisation in payments.

On proximity

Proximity is the core of meaningful relationships. Physical proximity is where things begin, and mental proximity is where things become great.

The stranger is me

Being a flâneur makes way for a realisation that I share a lot more with strangers than would appear at first

How are Ads served and why Apple does not really care about privacy

In a time, where big tech is vilified very quickly for “data mining” and “artificial intelligence” it is my attempt to understand how the business of serving ads really works.

Watching Plays in London

Living in the cultural capital of the world has its perks. Watching amazing plays at the West End is one of them.

My experience of working in sustainability

A short summary of my experience working in the domain of sustainability

What happens in the background when I pay with a card

What goes behind the working of card payments

My MBA application process

An explainer of the process of my MBA applications

Lost friendships

Thoughts on friends I have lost

Running across Luxembourg

Recapping an amazing weekend of running with friends

How I Read Books

How I Read Books

Time flies? Yes, inDiDi!

A recap of the year spent working in DiDi

The Bucket List

Thoughts on Bucket Lists and important things

Swim → Bike → Run: My First Triathlon

My first triathlon experience

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1-2 sentences. Either summary or first few lines

Portrait of a City: Amsterdam

My short experience of living in Amsterdam

The Grass is Greener in Wimbledon

The Wimbledon 2019 camping experience

The Unwilling Sailor

Scribbled a poem

House-hunting notes

Some notes on my London house-hunting experience

An Ode to Hope

What hope means to me

Why everyone should read “Invisible Women”

Thoughts on the book “Invisible Women” by Carolina Criado Perez

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