A Note About Myself

Today is personal.

Sorry, today is a personal note.

I have thought about writing this for a long time. I have thought about putting these thoughts down on paper and sharing them with people, about being honest about who I am and what I have become, but I keep stopping myself. A big part of that is fear.

I worry about what people will think of me, how they will judge me, and what it means to be this open about myself in public. There is always this anxiety about being seen too clearly, about saying things that I cannot take back once they are out there. Still, I feel like I need to write this now, because the last few years have changed me in ways that are too important to ignore, and keeping all of it inside no longer feels right.

Close friends and colleagues from my time at Myntra in Bangalore

Over the last 5 years, I have changed more than in any other phase of my life. Not in one dramatic moment, but slowly, through a lot of failure, uncertainty, small wins, exhaustion, and conversations that nobody else ever sees.

It is much easier to write about business, markets, products, or numbers. Writing about yourself when you know you are still becoming something feels a lot more uncomfortable. But this piece is not about the company or the brand. It is simply an operator’s note about me, the person underneath everything else.