General.
observations, essays, and the odd recommendation.
When neighborhoods go quiet
What feels like silence in urban India may be something larger: the slow reversal of a world where children were once economically necessary, and parenthood is now a deliberate, high-cost choice.
On keeping a paper notebook in 2026
I tried six different note-taking systems in twelve months. This is what stuck, and why ink on dead trees still beats every plain-text vault I built.
Code Was Always Cheap (Part 2)
AI fixed the building problem. It did not fix the being noticed problem. That gap is where most side projects quietly die.
Code Was Always Cheap
AI did not suddenly make code cheap. Building was always the easier part. The hard part was getting people to care.
Bike ride as a debugger
Why I solve more bugs at 40km/h than I ever do at the keyboard. A short defense of the long walk as a professional tool.