The Failure Happened Long Before Oracle's 6AM Email
Oracle cut thousands to fund AI. The real mistake happened years earlier, in every hiring conversation where nobody asked the right question.
BluSmart Proved My Belief Right. Then It Collapsed.
I had nine months of experience and thirty driver conversations. I was still wrong about BluSmart. This is the mechanism, not just the mistake.
The manager you wished for is the manager AI needs
Why AI gives inconsistent output, and why better briefing, not a better tool, is the fix.
The Map That Ate Eight Years: What Normalisation of Deviance Cost Me in Cash Flow
I held a client for eight years while their payment cycle quietly stretched from 30 days to 120. Here is what normalisation of deviance actually costs.
The Tasmanian Chain: Why Your Business Is Losing Institutional Memory
My new hire learned billing in two days. I celebrated. Then I realized he had no idea what three people and a full week used to look like. When institutional memory breaks, AI doesn't fix it—it accelerates through the gaps.
Moat vs Head Start: How I Filter Product Features
Arc Browser taught me the difference between moats and head starts. I use a 3-question filter when building O9X. Real decisions, real numbers.
Static Friction Almost Finished Me Before I Even Started
Six years. Four friction lessons. One security firm. What static friction, cash flow, cheap experiments, and boring software taught me.
What AI Gets Right (And Wrong) About Starting a Business
What different AI Models have to say to anyone keen to start their own business and my analysis on what they got right (and wrong)
Why Your Boring System is Your Secret Superpower
Simplify your business by ditching chaos. Understand why boring documentation and simple systems is your secret for predictable business success
Question That Disappeared: Evalute Stay/Leave to Freedom
From Reliance Jio to Ola to my own business: how I evolved from evaluating stay-or-leave decisions to structuring a business where I control the exit.
The 18-Month Buffer (And Why Building Alone Still Costs Me)
₹15 lakh stuck in working capital. My father saved 18 months to survive his learning curve. I'm testing operator circles to catch bad decisions.
Tier 1 Problems: Why Most Product Launches Fail
A Case study from my own business on how to validate a new business idea to achieve product market fit and why mine failed