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Essays from someone who builds things

Mostly about how technology changes the way we build and work.

Working4 min read

The career roadmap I never followed

Students keep asking me what they should learn. I never had an answer at 19, and I'm not sure I have one now. What I do have is a different question.

Thinking5 min read

Painting an owl (or why "creating" matters)

Try creating something with your hands, without distractions. It might unblock you and show you a completely different side of things.

Working8 min read

Education in the Age of LLMs: Stop Grading the Robot's Homework

Every essay your school assigns tonight will be written by a machine in eleven seconds. We can keep pretending otherwise, or we can rebuild education for the world that actually exists.

Thinking7 min read

The New Frugality: Why Gen-Z Chooses Experience Over Savings

The Great Generational Money Divide I track every expense across 17 different apps, credit cards, and investment platforms. I have spreadsheets that w...

Building5 min read

Evaluating Subscription Models in the New Age of Internet

Remember when Netflix deleted that controversial '13 Reasons Why' scene? That's when I realized: we don't own anything anymore, we just rent access to someone else's edit button.

Thinking10 min read

Dreams as a Service: Why Your Sleep Schedule Determines Your Subscription Tier

The Discovery That Changed Everything Last night at 3:47 AM, while reading my fourth "How to fix your sleep schedule" article, I had a realization. Yo...

Building7 min read

From Chaos to Cosmos: Fixing a SaaS Architecture That Spawned EC2 Instances Like Rabbits

When your AWS bill looks like a phone number and your architecture diagram needs a magnifying glass, it's time to admit: you've built a distributed monolith with extra steps.

Working8 min read

Re-evaluating the Evaluation Process

We're using 20th-century industrial metrics to evaluate 21st-century knowledge work. No wonder everyone's miserable and nothing's getting better.

Thinking7 min read

Systems Need Change Every Few Cycles

When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. Every system eventually gets gamed, and sometimes the only solution is to burn it down and start fresh.

Thinking5 min read

Systems of Governance

Democracy promises freedom but delivers the tyranny of the majority. Authoritarianism promises efficiency but delivers tyranny. Maybe we're asking the wrong questions.

Working5 min read

Startup Culture: The Silicon Valley Sitcom

We've created a culture where 'The Wolf of Wall Street' meets 'The Office,' but everyone thinks they're in 'The Social Network.' Spoiler: 98% of you are extras in someone else's failure montage.

Thinking5 min read

Reddit, Please Don't Go So Meta

Reddit's magic was never about who you are, but what you had to say. Now they're trying to be Facebook with worse UI and better memes.

Thinking5 min read

Terraforming by Hans Zimmer

When your solution to planetary engineering sounds like a Christopher Nolan film score, maybe it's time to turn down the volume.

Thinking4 min read

The Cost of Getting Dressed Up

Every time you walk out the door, you're spending money you've already forgotten about. Let's talk about the economics of existing.

Thinking4 min read

Uneducated Access to Unlimited Knowledge

We gave everyone a megaphone before teaching them what's worth saying. Now we're drowning in the noise.

Working6 min read

Why You Should Unplug from Technology Once a Week

In a world that never switches off, choosing to power down is the ultimate power move.

Working3 min read

Asynchronous Communication and Peace of Mind

In a world of instant messaging and real-time notifications, choosing when to respond is the ultimate luxury.

Working5 min read

Education System Needs to Teach Skepticism

We teach students to memorize 'facts' from textbooks written by committees, approved by politicians, and printed by the lowest bidder. Then we wonder why they believe everything on WhatsApp.

Working5 min read

Inhe Chhapne ka Shauq Hai: The Copy-Paste Curriculum

We've built an education system that celebrates copying so much, it should come with a Xerox sponsorship. Original thought? That's for the rebels who don't want good marks.

Working5 min read

The Power of an Old-Fashioned Notebook and Pen in the Digital Age

In a world of apps and algorithms, sometimes the most powerful productivity tool is the one that doesn't need charging.

Working3 min read

Choice: Knowledge Vs Grades

When did we start valuing the certificate more than the competence? A reflection on education's misplaced priorities.

Thinking2 min read

Hello Readers! I'm writing a blog

If you are reading this post, chances are that you have already visited my website. This post is meta - it's about this blog.