A Decade of Finding My Voice (30–39)
At thirty, I treated curiosity like a daily practice. In 2016 -when I turned 30, New York became my wide-open classroom: my first open mic, SGI-USA and even a curious peek at Scientology, long walks from Fulton Center to DUMBO and Long Island City’s water views, Smorgasburg Saturdays, bowling nights, a cronut, Beetle House and Brooklyn Bowl, a Coldplay concert, the US Open and a Mets game. I cycled the city with strangers, wandered the Museum of Jewish Heritage and the 9/11 Memorial, and let Devoción coffee and Williamsburg’s cats keep me company. There were reunions and stages too—back home for a school reunion, and onstage for a talk at the Icon Business Forum. That year felt like a permission slip: explore, connect, try. When I was 31 years old, momentum met discipline. I ran the Mumbai Marathon with Sumeet and, on my own steam, conceived and conducted Limits Make Things Too Small as a full-fledged event. When I was 32 years old, widened ...