What is the price of peace? In the Mahabharata, the ultimate answer was surprisingly small: just five villages. After returning from a grueling thirteen year exile, the Pandavas were legally entitled to their half of the Kuru kingdom. Yet, knowing…
Nobody tells you this when you start building something. Most founder mistakes don’t feel like mistakes. They feel responsible. That’s why they’re hard to catch. Nobody wakes up and says, “Today I’ll slowly sabotage my company.” What usually happens is…
After spending time across operationally intensive businesses and now thinking deeply about technology-enabled systems, I’ve arrived at a view that feels increasingly difficult to ignore: Most business problems are not intelligence problems. They are execution translation problems. For years, businesses…
Motivation is a wonderful feeling. It arrives suddenly.Sometimes after watching a video, reading a book, attending a seminar, or even after a good conversation with a friend. In that moment, everything feels possible. You decide you will wake up early,…
We are very careful when it comes to spending money. Before buying something expensive, we compare options, check alternatives, and ask ourselves whether it is worth the price. But when it comes to time, we behave very differently. We give…
Most of us grow up believing life should follow a clear path. The idea is simple – if you know where you are going, you will get there faster. But real life rarely works that way. Almost everyone reaches moments…
We all love a successful pilot. That shiny proof-of-concept makes you feel like your team is doing something groundbreaking. But here’s the hard truth most pilots don’t survive scaling. They look great in a small, controlled environment but when you…
(Reflections after attending the AI Impact Summit India, 2026) I recently attended the AI Impact Summit India 2026 in my home town New Delhi. Like most AI gatherings today, the conversations kept returning to familiar topics compute, GPUs, large models,…
Working with your own family can feel like the safest and most natural path. It offers trust, familiarity, and a sense of continuity. You step into something that already belongs to you, something built by people who care about you.…
This was my second trip to the Udupi coastal region and somehow, it felt like coming back to a story that was still writing itself. Unlike the last time, I decided to take a bus from Belagavi to Brahmavara,a small…