Priya Lakshmi is an innovation strategist and former product lead at a Silicon Valley AI startup. With an MBA from Stanford and a background in computer engineering, she’s adept at spotting trends that shape industries. Priya’s writing focuses on the people and companies driving tech forward, often uncovering under-the-radar stories of ingenuity. A passionate advocate for diversity in tech, she also explores how AI can bridge global inequities. In her free time, Priya is a yoga instructor and a mentor for women in STEM.
Posts
The Day I Realized Synthetic Biology Could Save My Grandmother's Village (2025-05-30 by Priya L.)
Why I Left Silicon Valley's Boys' Club to Build Something Better (2025-05-30 by Priya L.)
The Compound Effect of Consistent Seed Care: Lessons from Building Scalable Systems (2025-06-01 by Priya L.)
The Three Mistakes Every Tech Professional Makes When Starting Their Seed Harvesting Journey (2025-06-07 by Priya L.)
Basil and Balance: How Growing Sacred Tulsi Transformed My Yoga Practice (2025-06-07 by Priya L.)
The Day I Met the Engineer Who's Using AI to Reunite Families Separated by Natural Disasters (2025-06-07 by Priya L.)
Debugging Nature: What My Engineering Background Taught Me About Companion Planting (2025-06-07 by Priya L.)
The Sacred Morning Ritual: How Checking My Germination Trays Became My New Form of Meditation (2025-06-07 by Priya L.)
How a Chance Encounter at a Refugee Camp Led to the Most Innovative Emergency Response Technology (2025-06-10 by Priya L.)
AI Surveillance in Schools: Are We Protecting or Policing Our Children? (2025-06-10 by Priya L.)
Scaling Sustainably: How Permaculture Principles Apply to Growing Startups (2025-06-11 by Priya L.)
How Two Sisters from Detroit Turned Their Grandmother's Health Struggles into a Revolutionary Diabetes Management Platform (2025-06-13 by Priya L.)
The unexpected parallels between debugging code and diagnosing seed problems (2025-06-13 by Priya L.)
The Startup Life of a Seed: Every Germination is a Minimum Viable Product (2025-06-17 by Priya L.)
The Ancient Wisdom in Modern Seeds: What My Grandmother's Garden Taught Me About Resilience (2025-06-19 by Priya L.)
The Blind Programmer Who Created an AI That Describes the World for Visually Impaired People (2025-06-19 by Priya L.)
The Agile Methodology of Nature: Iterating Through Seasons with Cover Crop Seeds (2025-06-20 by Priya L.)
The Invisible Women of AI: How Gender Bias in Training Data is Amplifying Global Inequities (2025-06-22 by Priya L.)
The Buddhist Monk Programming Meditation Apps That Adapt to Your Brainwaves (2025-06-22 by Priya L.)
The Diversity Data Paradox: Why More Inclusion Metrics Aren't Creating More Inclusion (2025-06-25 by Priya L.)
The Innovation of Imperfection: Why My Wonky Radishes Became My Greatest Teachers (2025-06-26 by Priya L.)
The Blind Engineer Who Created the Most Intuitive Voice-AI Interface I've Ever Used (2025-06-26 by Priya L.)
The unexpected alliance between indigenous wisdom keepers and quantum computing researchers that's reshaping environmental science (2025-06-26 by Priya L.)
Why AI-Powered Matchmaking Apps Are Failing Women of Color (2025-06-26 by Priya L.)
The Meditation I Never Expected: Finding Flow State in Meticulous Seed Cleaning Rituals (2025-06-28 by Priya L.)
The Humidity Hack That Saved My Rare Monstera Seeds (Learned from a 90-Year-Old Gardener in Kerala) (2025-06-29 by Priya L.)
The Village That Became a Tech Hub: How One Community in Nigeria is Rewriting Africa's Digital Story (2025-06-29 by Priya L.)
Why I Traded My Six-Figure Salary for Soil: The True ROI of Permaculture (2025-07-02 by Priya L.)
The ROI of Growing Your Own Microgreens: A Data-Driven Approach (2025-07-05 by Priya L.)
How One Woman's Struggle with Dyslexia Led to Revolutionary Learning Technology (2025-07-05 by Priya L.)
My Journey from Code to Compassion: Teaching AI to Understand Cultural Nuance (2025-07-05 by Priya L.)