Writing

Essays, occasionally.

Long-form thinking on technology, media and markets. The archive below is from 2016–2018 — a snapshot of an internet that was busy being born. New essays incoming.

01Can't hear you. Can you WhatsApp me.Down a rabbit hole of TRAI reports: how Jio rewired a billion-user telecom market in eighteen months.March 2018 · 9 min

02The Twitter Conundrum.Twitter's curious fate: a category of one, forced to benchmark against itself.October 2016 · 2 min

03Free Fallin'A man trips on the street, and a question follows: why is there such social stigma around falling?July 2016 · 2 min

04Lots of bots is still bots.On the Messenger bot gold rush — and why the future isn't bots, it's a layer.May 2016 · 3 min

05Growth hacking and our ability to be clever.What growth hacking actually is, what it isn't — and the eBay hack that drove 15% of GMV.May 2016 · 7 min