Product Leader, AI Builder & Author. Country Manager @ Riot Games; Ex-Google & Microsoft. Building the Future of Tech & Play. Love sport, music, books and food!
Bengaluru, India
Joined August 2007
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"everything happens for a reason" is a sentence we reach for when we don't know how to sit with randomness.
an essay on the cruelty of toxic positivity.
link: open.substack.com/pub/baluci…
My favorite reads in 2025 (read a total of 15):
1. Open Socrates, Agnes Callard
2. Mother Mary Comes to Me, Arundhati Roy
3. Zorba the Greek, Nikos Kazantzakis
4. The Razors Edge, Maugham
5. Lonesome Dove, McMurtry
6. 2666, Bolano
7. The Passion According to G.H, Lispector
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𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐋𝐃 🇮🇳🏆
India clinch their maiden Women’s @cricketworldcup title at #CWC25 🤩
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How to Keep Winning
amasad.me/keep-winning
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What a great evening. Thank you and congrats to everyone @riotgames, @ForticheProd, all @LeagueOfLegends players and #Arcane fans! We look forward to creating more great ways to explore and experience Runeterra with you all.
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Thank you to the #Emmys for Best Animated Program and Outstanding Sound Editing - Animation, it is absolutely humbling to receive these honors for Arcane Season 2.
And of course thank you to our players and fans for coming along this journey with us for the past two seasons 💙
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Someone on @LeagueOfLegends told me to go touch grass so I did
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Sapphire is OUT NOW 🩷💎 Make sure you check out the Official Music video es.lnk.to/sapphireTA
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This is why we fight.
Listen to the VALORANT Year 5 Anthem "EGO" performed by Qing Madi as Mary Ade. Link in bio.
Our days are precious but we gladly see them going
If in their place we find a thing more precious growing:
A rare, exotic plant, our gardener’s heart delighting;
A child whom we are teaching, a booklet we are writing.
From "The Glass Bead Game", Herman Hesse
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Wrote a short, opinionated memo on Model Context Protocol (MCP) — what it is, the use cases solves, where it shines, and why it might not be built for the future. Would love your thoughts... drive.google.com/file/d/1QGD… #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #MCP #TechTrends #FutureOfWork
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