“On November 8, 2016, India’s government did something that no other government had attempted before at the same scale: It decided to remove 86% of the country’s currency notes by value from circulation.”

“In real life, in the natural course of conversation, it is not uncommon to talk about a person you may know…”

“Slack is the bane and the lifeblood of my workplace communication.”

“With rice at the core of what at least half the world’s population cooks, it will come as no surprise that there are as many varieties of the grain as there are ways to prep it. Even in its simplest iteration, rice means many things…”

“A weird, and somewhat morbid thought occurs to me from time to time. When I am on a plane and the turbulence hits, when a car veers out into traffic, when I hear about someone I know who died suddenly: I don’t get scared. I just think, ‘If this is it, alright.’”

“One day in the spring of 2016 I mentioned to a friend that I needed a new mattress.”