About Me

Work

As a physician of 16 years, I've seen the panorama of the human condition and society, in all its visceral joy and pain. This grounds and cleaves any lofty ideas to reality.

I build products and provide strategic advisory, mainly in the healthcare and life sciences space across systems innovation, technology and policy.

I write - mainly essays - and bring my own interests and systems thinking. It's a 'doodling out' my mind and it should be read as such.

I'm a founding member of The Tattva Fellowship, where, like-spirited creatives and thinkers, are building novel ideas and capacity for in the UK-India space.

Principles for work

See the whole, not just the parts. Everything is interconnected. We are not islands to analyse, but wholes inside larger wholes.

Turn a mess into a problem We encounter messes, not problems. The task is to convert the pile of mess into a well articulated problem.

Stand by your taste. Building functional stuff is easy. Building great stuff requires a labour of love. It requires a sense of aesthetic appreciation coupled with human-centred design.

Embrace uncertainty. Complex systems can't be controlled, only influenced. The goal isn't to predict the future, but to build systems that can adapt to whatever comes.

Work in seasons. Change happens through small, deliberate, timebound actions. There is a season for everything.

Small wins are the big wins. There is no ultimate victory. There are only small steps taken in the right direction.

Small groups. Real impact happens through small groups of like-spirited people, who support one-another, to build meaning.

Nothing can hurt you but yourself. Everything outside of us is a mirror. Any hurt that comes externally is felt only because it alters our internal state. If our internal state (the ocean) is able to absorb the external fluctations (the river), then we are not harmed. Being the ocean is where courage and compassion meet.