LifeOutside the work

Life outside the work.

Travel stories, coffee notes, kombucha experiments, books, and the bits of life that keep the product work from becoming the whole story.

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Graphic travel cover for Northeast India with Aizawl, Gangtok, and Darjeeling photo panels

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Brewing

Coffee

Vienna roast, moka pot, cold brew, and a growing obsession with Indian roasters.

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Travel

Five Years to Web Summit: The Europe Trip That Almost Didn't Happen

Five years of waiting. Two visa rejections. A friend cancelling at the last minute. A solo trip across five countries. This is how Web Summit finally happened.

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Brewing

Kombucha

Black tea kombucha, second ferment experiments, and why Falsa is the best thing I have put in a bottle.

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Hand-drawn coffee journey from green beans and a grinder through a moka pot, French press, espresso machine, milk frothing, and a finished cup

Brewing

My Coffee Journey Started With the Wrong Beans

In 2018 I walked into a mall in Kerala, bought a kilo of the wrong coffee, and accidentally started a habit that took me six years to get right.

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My first photograph of Naini Lake, taken through the hillside railings in 2015

Travel

The Lake That Knows All My Seasons

I first arrived in Nainital as a schoolboy with one change of clothes. I kept returning through career decisions, friendships, love, heartbreak, failure, and recovery.

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