The Soft Audit
Leela LakhaniHot takes, soft insights, and the occasional existential audit - dissecting the world with side-eye and sincerity.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 11 | Founded | a year ago | Last Issue | 3 months ago |
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My Armpits Tried to Warn Me
It’s mid-January 2026. I’m back at work after the most unrelaxing holiday seasons ever. My nana, my maternal grandfather, passed away at the start of the year. The lead-up was chaotic, made worse by the fact that he lived an ocean away. Bey...
Solo Travel & the People You’ll Never See Again
Budget season just ended, which means my brain is finally being used for something other than running models at 3x speed. As I took the bus from Incheon into Seoul, the right side of my brain started to reboot.
It hit me, I was here just s...
30 & Loved
This summer I watched my parents help me assemble an Ikea kitchen island in my condo, and for the first time in my life, I was trying not to do it all by myself.
The instruction manual was spread out between us, three cups of tea cooling o...
Part 2: Not Delulu, Not Bitter
The realization I had on a park bench with KC is that these two universal questions apply to all aspects of life:
How do you stay hopeful without deluding yourself?
How do you act without becoming bitter?
On the bus ride home, my m...
Part 1: The Soft Serve Twist Epiphany
The Setup: Heartbreak & Denial
"So, are you seeing anyone?" That inescapable question had followed me through my twenties at every coffee shop catch-up and family FaceTime.
My go to answer was a sheepish “no updates.” The truth was messy:...
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Always observing and definitely overthinking. Connecting dots where it seems obvious but only clicks when I put fingers to keyboard. Raised and based in Toronto. East African Gujju by ethnicity.
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