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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
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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…
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𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐋𝐃 🇮🇳🏆 India clinch their maiden Women’s @cricketworldcup title at #CWC25 🤩
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Jemimah Rodrigues stands tall as India beat Australia to book #CWC25 final berth in a historic chase 🔥 #INDvAUS 📝: icc-cricket.com/tournaments/…
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How to Keep Winning amasad.me/keep-winning

How to Keep Winning

I've always been fiercely competitive. I enjoy everything about it—from training to get better, to building and developing teams, to the stress, pressure, and intensity. And while I love winning,...

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This is one of the great essays of the 20th century. And heartbreakingly prescient.
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This is a great book: crisp, trenchant, profound, and important to all who find the leisure to read it. Ambiguous, therefore, that this copy was deaccessioned from the House of Commons Library...
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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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TAYLOR FRITZ ADVANCES TO THE WIMBLEDON SEMIFINALS 🔥 He becomes the only active American man to reach the semifinals or better at a non-hardcourt major 👏
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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.
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CONGRATULATIONS TO GUKESH, THE NEW WORLD CHAMPION 🏆 The 18-year-old Indian star has defeated the reigning champion, Ding Liren, to become the youngest-ever undisputed classical chess world champion. Wow! 🇮🇳
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Nothing ever stays dead. Arcane returns this November.
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In a monumental collaboration, Mercedes-Benz has joined forces with LoL Esports to pay tribute to the first inductee of the Hall of Legends: Faker indiatodaygaming.com/story/l…
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🇮🇳 Gukesh exiting the venue after winning the 2024 #FIDECandidates! 🔥 🤩
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Vaishali wins 5 games in a row 🤯 to end the Women's #FIDECandidates in a tie for 2nd place!
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History has been made! We have a new challenger for the World Chess Championship: Congratulations to 17-year-old Gukesh for winning the 2024 #FIDECandidates - the youngest player ever to qualify for the World Championship match!
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ALT Gukesh sits on a chair, smiling. (Picture: FIDE / Michal Walusza)

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Congratulations to @DGukesh for becoming the youngest challenger. The @WacaChess family is so proud of what you have done . I’m personally very proud of how you played and handled tough situations. Enjoy the moment
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feeling like this rn
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Gukesh takes down Alireza Firouzja and is now the sole leader going into the final round where he will face Hikaru Nakamura!
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