I’m Dev and I seek opportunities to live in service.
Professionally, I’m a coach and help leaders, teams and organisations be more useful and successful (more on that here).
In the course of this work, over the past 15 years, I’ve had amazing and powerful conversations with people all over the world, and very often a lot of wisdom magically emerges.
Sometimes I catch some of that magical wisdom and write it down so it can be inspiring and useful to even more people. I also like creating AI-generated art to accompany my writing so take a look around to see some of that.
For a more complete professional summary, find and follow me on LinkedIn.
That said, my writing journey hasn’t always been so smooth…
When I was a tiny baby, my Sikh parents migrated from Amritsar, India to Sydney, Australia and I grew up as a third culture kid, struggling to figure out who I was and what I wanted to be when I grew up.
Out in the world I also faced countless interactions consisting of “What’s that on your head?” and “What’s underneath it?”
When I was a teenager, I fell in love with writing to explore my own hyperactive and hyper-imaginative mind. I also fell in love with a million other things. One of those things was marketing and I fell down a vicious and powerful black hole of “YOU MUST FIND YOUR NICHE OR YOU’LL FAIL IN LIFE AND BE MISERABLE!”
Over the years of trying to discover what I want to be when I grow up, who I am, and what’s my one thing, led to the kind of analysis paralysis that walks hand in hand with a deep and somewhat secret creative constipation. My writing got blocked the most.
In my 30s I’m starting to figure out that the struggle to find my one thing is because I want to learn everything, do everything, see everything and write about everything. Search algorithms and market conditions be damned!
And maybe, just maybe, breaking free from the shackles of trying to “produce content” for a niche, and simply writing to think, experience and be of service to whoever I may be of service to, can help me understand
at a deeper level
what is
under my turban.
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