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Culture · Feb 22, 2026
Rented Minds
There is an old Urdu phrase, khud se baat karna, that loosely translates as "talking to oneself." It was never about soliloquy. It described the act of sitting with your own mind long enough to...
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Twenty-two years in corporate leadership across industries. Strategist, operator, writer, and angel investor. Writing on business, geopolitics, AI, and the forces reshaping how we work and live.
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