79% of women in corporate India aspire to leadership roles. Most were trained, long before any office, to perform compliance instead of practicing it. This is about that training and what becomes possible when it ends. Look at what happened to you. Not what was done to you, though that is also true. What happened, quietly, over a long time, with your full participation and without your full awareness. You were taught to be excellent in a very specific way. Raise your hand, but not first....

If you've been on social media this week, you may have come across the touching footage of  Punch , a seven-month-old Japanese macaque at the Ichikawa City Zoo. If you haven't, don't worry—I'll link the video here for you. Punch the Baby Monkey Japan: What a Viral Story Teaches Us About the Loneliness Epidemic Abandoned by his mother at birth and raised by human keepers, Punch, the baby monkey in Japan, faced a daunting challenge: reintegrating into a troop of monkeys who didn't quite know...

I watched Interstellar again—this time on the big screen. And even though I’ve seen it before, the experience has moved me.