Organizations scale through delegation . That sounds obvious, but delegation is often misunderstood. It is not just a way to get more tasks done. It is a way to create more places where judgment can live. A leader cannot personally notice every risk, interpret every ambiguity, remember every promise, and make …
I can imagine a fairly ordinary Tuesday a few years from now. A compliance lead notices a regulator has tightened rules around “high-risk accounts.” She opens an internal admin tool, writes what she wants in plain language, and an agent generates the change: a new check, a UI nudge, an …
I was having dinner with a VC friend and we ended up talking about the meltdown in SaaS valuations. When discussing SaaS, I often hear this logic: AI will commoditize a lot of software. But the Systems I was at dinner recently with a VC friend and we ended up …
Over the past few weeks, I’ve heard repeated mentions of this idea of “enterprise context graphs” paired with AI agents . One representative description goes like this: ”.. the missing layer that actually runs enterprises: the decision traces – the exceptions, overrides, precedents, and cross-system context that currently live in Slack threads …
A Spark at the Stanford Executive Program June 2025 was a turning point. I found myself in the thick of the Stanford Executive Program , six weeks of full-time classes on the beautiful Stanford campus. Strategy, leadership, culture, communications, AI, and more. It was like a compressed MBA, taught by some …
Aurora adjusted her e-lenses, the protest below snapping into sharp relief. From the hundred-and-twentieth floor, the chanting was a low thrum, the signs held aloft like desperate pleas to indifferent gods. LONG LIFE FOR ALL. STOP THE MONOPOLY. The same demands, echoing daily against the mirrored facades of the Big …
Every significant stride in human history has hinged on one key factor: communication. Our world, our societies, and our cultures have been shaped by our ability to connect and share ideas, stories, and knowledge. The advent of computers and the internet supercharged this exchange, facilitating unprecedented levels of global interaction …
Android has a neat feature called Work Profile that sandboxes work apps & data from personal apps & data. If needed, your company can (remotely) manage and/or wipe just the Work related data without touching your personal data. This makes it really easy to use personal devices for work usage, while …
In a recent blog post , I wrote: this site runs on a shared host provided by Dreamhost. I know that sounds awfully outmoded in this day and age of containerizing everything! But I’ve had antrix.net on shared hosting for more than fifteen years now and if it ain …
Take a look at this snippet taken from a resume: Senior Engineer in the Sales Trading development team within Citi Equities Technology. In this role, my responsibilities include: Working with desk traders and market connectivity teams on several features. Software development primarily in Java on Linux with some Perl, Solaris …
“How do you build a good documentation culture in a company?” — that was the question posed by a friend who’s the VP of Engineering at a fast growing startup. As we do in most situations, more so when talking about culture, we start with the People. People People model …
In March this year, I left JPMorgan Chase to join Amazon Web Services. I was at JPMC for close to eight years and my last role there was to lead the product development & delivery of observability services. This included passive observability services for aggregating & alerting over operational metrics, events, logs …
To help with my new job, I’ll be taking a few AWS certifications. First on that list is the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate certification exam which I passed yesterday. As a reminder, this is my personal blog and whatever you read here are my personal views and not …
A few months ago, the Monetary Authority of Singapore awarded the first set of digital banking licenses . As the press release mentions, there were 14 applicants out of which 4 were granted licenses. As it happens, I had interviewed with one of those applicants. While I did clear the interviews …
In the most recent reboot of the site, I had ripped out all JavaScript, including Google Analytics. To be honest, it wasn’t a big loss since I can’t even remember when I had last looked at the Analytics data. But it’s good to have some understanding of …