The Hard Truth About AI and Engineering
LLMs are great at patterns, terrible at cause and effect. If you're leading teams and betting otherwise, you're driving blind.
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Mastering Product Intuition
Product intuition means being able to look at a screen and guess-with 10% accuracy-how users will behave. It's not magic. It's a muscle, built by shipping, observing, and obsessing over what actually works.
Every Shortcut Is a Loan
Shortcuts feel efficient, until they start collecting interest. From tech debt to hiring gaps, this is a walkthrough of the invisible loans startups take every day - and what founders often underestimate in the rush to move fast.
Solving the Wrong Puzzle
Some developers aren't building for users. They're chasing elegance and the urge to solve problems just because they're hard, not because they matter. It's a trap that kills velocity and distracts even the smartest engineers.
The Art of Figuring It Out on the Fly
Every culture has its own word for scrappy improvisation. In Portugal it is desenrascanço, in India it is jugaad. Both capture the art of making things work when plans fall apart and resources run thin.
How to Become a UX Designer Without a Design Degree
No design degree? No problem. Here’s a real path to break into UX, build proof-of-work, and stand out - without begging for certificates or bootcamp clout.
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.