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Notes from the workshop floor.

A slow, irregular journal on AI, startups, hospitality, hiring, Indian small business and the philosophy of building. Published when I have something to say.

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Essay · Vol. 1212 min

The unglamorous AI: what software owes the people who do the work.

If the next decade of AI is written from conference stages, it will be written wrong. A field note from a year inside small businesses, hostels and hotel back-offices.

Letter · Vol. 116 min

To the 19-year-old founder in a small town, with too much internet and not enough sleep.

A letter I wish I had been handed at 19, written from the other side of a decade. On patience, friendships, first companies, and the lie of overnight.

Notes from the workshop floor.

The unglamorous AI: what software owes the people who do the work.

To the 19-year-old founder in a small town, with too much internet and not enough sleep.

Every essay, in honest order.

What hotels taught me about the future of agentic interfaces.

Consciousness, kindness, code: three words I refuse to separate.

Quiet beats clever: a defence of software that disappears.

India is not a market. It is a method.

On hiring slowly, before you have to.

The day my AI assistant became boring — and finally useful.

Three afternoons with a kirana store owner who taught me about retention.

The pivot is not the story. The listening before it, is.

To my younger team, on the bad week we just had.

Attention is a moral question. Most product roadmaps treat it as a metric.

Why resumes lie, and what we ask candidates to do instead.

A week in Berhampur: software, festivals, and the limits of dashboards.

One letter,
once a month.
Never more.

Notes from the workshop floor.

The unglamorous AI: what software owes the people who do the work.

To the 19-year-old founder in a small town, with too much internet and not enough sleep.

Every essay, in honest order.

What hotels taught me about the future of agentic interfaces.

Consciousness, kindness, code: three words I refuse to separate.

Quiet beats clever: a defence of software that disappears.

India is not a market. It is a method.

On hiring slowly, before you have to.

The day my AI assistant became boring — and finally useful.

Three afternoons with a kirana store owner who taught me about retention.

The pivot is not the story. The listening before it, is.

To my younger team, on the bad week we just had.

Attention is a moral question. Most product roadmaps treat it as a metric.

Why resumes lie, and what we ask candidates to do instead.

A week in Berhampur: software, festivals, and the limits of dashboards.

One letter,once a month.Never more.

One letter,
once a month.
Never more.