This Wednesday, I was travelling on a bus and there was a woman sitting diagonally across from me. She was reading a book while knitting. I looked at her for a few seconds and thought, that's a pretty nice way to spend an evening. Then I looked at
There is a strange point in every product journey where things are going exactly right and that's when you can start having a problem. I ran into this recently while working on something I thought was really cool(at least it appeared that way to me :P). If
You have probably been asked about your hobbies at some point. I never had a good answer to that question. Tbh, I still don't. A few years ago, while reading Designing Your Life, I realised something slightly uncomfortable. I did very little just for joy. Most things I
Some time back, I shipped something that made me conscious. I was building a pipeline that generates intelligence reports with AI. Not drafts, not suggestions for a human to polish. A finished report going out at scale with no human in the loop. The whole point of the system was
Japan had been on my bucketlist for a very long time. Naturally, I had expected what people usually talk about - cleanliness, introversion, transport, food, vending machines and many more things. What I did not expect was this strange feeling of calmness during the trip. It wasn't silence, Tokyo
Last week my vehicle started making a sound when I accelerated. Nothing was broken enough to stop using it, but it was clearly not normal. So I went to the service center. The mechanic asked what the problem was. I said there’s some sound. He asked “What kind of
What happened when I tried to write what I know
Monday: “Let’s align on priorities.” Tuesday: “We’re blocked on X changes.” Wednesday: “Let’s push this to next week.” Thursday: “Would it be done by Monday? By Monday morning? At 11 am?” Friday: “Can someone summarize this in the tracker?” By the time the week ends, alignment is
Inside doubts keep it alive. Outside belief makes it matter
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The Art of Fixing the Wrong Thing the Right Way
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