What a group cruiser ride taught me about pacing, partnership, and the leadership principles we forget at our desks.
Some of the clearest product thinking I've ever done happened at 80 km/h, with the wind drowning out every notification and the road demanding nothing but presence.
The route: Pune → Babe Ghaat → Dhanep → Kuran → Malkhed. 170 kilometres, five waypoints, one group of riders.
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Anish has spent 12+ years inside commodity trading floors delivering ETRM and trading systems, from front-office deal capture to the post-go-live months where implementations are won or lost. He writes The Trading Narrative for the practitioners who run those desks: traders, delivery leads, and the professionals in between.
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