You’re always content when adversity is your yardstick — A few years ago, I’d gone camping with a friend. We’d just finished dinner, and I was doing my best to rinse out our cooking utensils in the feeble glow of my tent light. We didn’t have much water or detergent. After fussing about for a bit, my friend, seeing…

Based on Beatty’s Chocolate Cake by Ina Garten — I’ve recently learned to bake a few staples and I’m more interested in fine tuning those before moving on to others. As the father of a five year-old, chocolate cake tops that list. I’d tried chocolate cake before, and despite the fact that it was my first time baking anything…

Visualizing design feedback to encourage collaboration — This is something I’m doing more of, figured I’d share. As a design manager, I’ve always found it difficult to know exactly when to grab the marker from someone when offering feedback. There is the natural urge to just offer up a solution, or be so prescriptive that I might…

How I got veggies and spice into my child at an early age — Khichdi is an Indian stew of rice, lentils and vegetables. I cobbled together my own recipe when my daughter was a few months old, and five years later it is still a healthy staple I rely on to fill gaps in her nutrition. Several friends have asked me for the…

All of the flavor, none of the acidity — We ran out of beans, with 8 inches of snow outside and the mercury hovering around freezing. At times like these, we make chai. …

There’ve been a lot of discussions about how shortform works, so we thought a quick primer might help. We’re also making an update to help shortform earn on Medium. Shortform is any story under 150 words (including title and subtitle), and it is eligible to earn money if it is…

A unique Medium profile and address — Your Medium profile is where readers get to know more about you, to see the face behind the name, the mind behind the words. For writers, it’s a place to showcase ideas for the millions of curious eyes and hungry minds that flock to Medium each day. Your profile should…

I’ve always struggled with the way devi is portrayed in imagery or sculpture. She looked nothing like my mother. And my mother was everything like her.