The best product decisions are made in DMs, not standups Most standups are rituals, not tools. I get more signal from a good DM than a 10-person update circle. If you're building fast and lean, here's why async one-liners outperform scheduled meetings almost every time.
10 Years of Engineering: The Lessons Nobody Tells You Early Building software is not about perfect code, fancy patterns, or being the smartest person in the room. It’s judgment, simplicity, communication, and the discipline to ship even when everything feels messy. This is what I wish someone had told me at year zero.
Pulse Candy: A Disruptive Story How a ₹1 candy turned into a ₹750 crore obsession. Pulse nailed local flavor, sparked viral buzz, and rewrote FMCG playbooks without a single celeb ad.
Why "Monolith" Became a Bad Word Everyone fell in love with microservices, but complexity came free. Modular monoliths might just be the smarter path for most teams today. Even Amazon and Shopify circled back. Here's why that matters if you're building something new.
Why I Had to Ask a Junior Dev to Stop Using AI AI makes you faster - unless it makes you lazy. Here’s the real story of asking a junior dev to pause ChatGPT, and what it taught me about product judgment.
Adapt or Vanish Every product operates under pressure from competitors, platforms, users, or internal growth targets. What survives isn’t always the best. It’s what adapts the fastest.
That Rare Moment When AI Actually Delivers Exactly What You Meant AI accelerates output, but clarity of intent still defines quality. Good prompts come from good thinking.
DevOps Feels Less Like a Role and More Like a Lifestyle Owning deployment, infra, and reliability demands resilience. It’s rewarding, but never truly off.
Why Remote Work Is Not The Same Remote work felt like a revolution in 2020. But it wasn’t a revolution. It was an emergency. And now that life is back, remote isn't the dream everyone thought it was, it’s a system out of sync with reality.