Notes from the trenches.
Thoughts and insights on startups, technology, product development, and the journey of building things that matter.
2026.
- AI and the Great Merging of Roles From software engineer to builder, and what's next. How AI tools stretch the T-shaped professional on both axes, and why finance is the next function to be reshaped. 4 min read
- The Harness Is Not the Product The harness is where the hard engineering is. Adoption is where the value is. Why the product is the harness plus the path to adoption. 4 min read
2023.
Written in 2023. Some details may have aged since.
- (older article) Building a strong documentation culture This article describes the why, what, how and when of documentation for engineering, product and operations teams 4 min read
- (older article) Approaches to building your startup's MVP This article describes various approaches idea-stage startups can take to build a Minimum Viable Product (MVP). 5 min read
- (older article) Customizing and Deploying your Zola blog to GitHub Pages How I customized and deployed this blog. 3 min read
- (older article) Building a deep-tech startup on a shoestring budget It is 2023, venture funding is the lowest in a decade, amidst the global economic slowdown. Against this backdrop, what does it take to build a deep-tech startup with severely limited resources? 7 min read