The Journal
Essays for the professional who is done pretending everything is fine.
Long-form thinking on stress, decisions, purpose and leadership — grounded in Vedic wisdom.
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Leadership
The quiet cost of decision fatigue no one is measuring
By 6pm your judgement is not the same judgement you had at 9am. A Vedic protocol to protect the decisions that actually matter.
28 May 2025·7 min
Stress
Burnout is not a workload problem. It is a values problem.
What the Bhagavad Gita understood about exhaustion, long before modern productivity culture arrived.
14 May 2025·9 min
Mindset
The professional who meditates — a case for stillness at work
Why the calmest person in the room is almost always the one making the best decisions.
30 April 2025·6 min
Purpose
Purpose after 40: the questions you were too busy to ask
A five-question audit to test whether the life you built is still the life you want.
16 April 2025·8 min
Bhagavad Gita
What the Gita teaches about difficult conversations at work
Krishna’s counsel to a paralysed Arjuna is, quietly, the best playbook for hard conversations at work and at home.
2 April 2025·7 min
Relationships
The relationship debt you accumulate on the way up
The invisible price of a career that keeps winning — and a slow, deliberate way to pay it back.
19 March 2025·6 min