Essays on clarity, personal finance, and leadership from PKD. Published quietly, monthly, by hand.https://pkdasgupta.co.in/en-inhttps://pkdasgupta.co.in/writing/great-transition-2025-2030/https://pkdasgupta.co.in/writing/great-transition-2025-2030/The next five years may shape your career, finances, and family more than the previous thirty. Not because the future is knowable — but because the formula that worked for the last generation is quietly going out of date. A field guide to preparation, not prediction.Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTfinancehttps://pkdasgupta.co.in/writing/coach-not-boss/https://pkdasgupta.co.in/writing/coach-not-boss/Most engineering managers I have known were excellent engineers and reluctant humans. The job is the inverse. The technical bar got you the title; what keeps you in it is something quieter.Sat, 20 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTleadershiphttps://pkdasgupta.co.in/writing/financially-fulfilled/https://pkdasgupta.co.in/writing/financially-fulfilled/The point of money is not to have a lot of it. The point is to have a life. Most of the people I know who built large balance sheets did so by accident — and most of the people I know who built rich lives did so on purpose.Sat, 20 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTfinancehttps://pkdasgupta.co.in/writing/clarity-over-certainty/https://pkdasgupta.co.in/writing/clarity-over-certainty/We confuse the two all the time. Certainty pretends to know what comes next; clarity simply sees what is true now. The first kills movement; the second creates it.Sat, 20 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTclarity