About Me

I’m the Gear and Gadgets Editor for Off Duty, the weekend lifestyle insert of The Wall Street JournalI’m still figuring out what “Gear and Gadgets” even means, but I’ve enjoyed editing stories on a wide range of subjects including the flip phone renaissance, high-design gardening tools, spearfishing equipment, and flip-up sunglasses. If you have an idea you think would be a fit for the section, shoot me a note at my work email address. I’d love to work with you!

Recently, I wrote about my journey to become a New York City cyclist. I also answer reader questions as The Fixer, which allows me to leverage my experience as a tech and lifestyle product reviewer to help people, like a dorkier Emily Post. I also occasionally review public art and architecture in a newsletter called Plop Art. If you’d like to know what I’m reading, you can subscribe to the DV Digest, a weekly link dump.

You can follow me on Instagram, BlueSky, or Twitter, but I would encourage you to do literally anything else with your time. 

a picture of me, daniel varghese, after getting a very good haircut in February 2022
february 2022