Reflections
Thoughts, seasons, and the soft in-betweens.
Here you will find journal entries, observations from motherhood, seasonal shifts and thoughts I’ve collected between the chaos, calm and quiet. It’s less about having answers and more about staying present with the questions.
Recent Reflections
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I’m Shivani, a Senior Data Scientist who writes about building with AI, product thinking, and the occasional experiment on myself. If you’ve been anywhere near the tech world lately, you’ve heard “agentic AI” thrown around until it loses meaning. I was one of those people nodding along while feeling quietly overwhelmed. So I decided to…
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On some of the most emotional days of my life, I felt completely taken care of. That peace came from trusting the right designer.
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What we live is always bigger than what we post. This is about what stayed unedited.
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What happens when your beach day is basically 300 birds hijacking your beach day, and dogs chase you off the sand? A weekend of chaos, comedy, and lessons in gratitude. (Part 2)
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What happens when your drive-in movie turns into a pop concert, your trunk light won’t turn off? A weekend of chaos, comedy, and lessons in gratitude. (Part 1)
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In every meal, every book, every laugh around the table, my father still lives. This is my first letter to Papa, the man at the corner seat.
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Every two minutes, she tugged at my hand. “Come, Mama! It’s rising!” From our balcony seats at the oven window, we watched the loaf put on its slow magic.
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A beginner-friendly guide to CUPED, a clever technique that helps you run faster, clearer A/B tests by using pre-experiment data. Learn how it works, why it matters, and how companies like Lyft and Microsoft use it to improve experimentation in real-world products.
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Lately I’ve been thinking about things that truly know me. Not the people who claim to. Not the ones who say my name like they are announcing a verdict. This led me to ask myself, Who knows you? These are the things that have witnessed my light and my shadows. The cup that remembers how…
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A soft reckoning with tradition, identity, and the quiet power we carry.
Notes From Shivani 