A leader without a compass is a task rabbit
The first quality I look for in a leader is self-awareness. Without it, people invent the tasks and you just run them.
Karthik Kamalakannan & the Internet - All Content
Essays, emails to self, founder tools, and notes on building Skcript from Chennai by Karthik Kamalakannan.
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Pay your interns
A conversation I overheard at dinner reminded me why we have never taken free labour at Skcript.
How I manage my second brain with two git repos
A Claude-native second brain: Personal and Engineering repos, noun folders, immutable raw/, thin wiki, and a rule that the model files the note after every session.
How to run two Grok Build accounts on your Mac
Use separate GROK_HOME dirs so personal and work Grok Build do not share auth.json.
Intercom became the thing it spent 15 years fighting
Salesforce is buying Fin, formerly Intercom, for $3.6 billion. A reflection on what an acquisition like this actually changes, and why I keep choosing the slower road.
Limit your options and do them well
A core value I live by, borrowed from Jack Dorsey: go vertical, do fewer things, and give them everything.
There is no single mold for a founder
I built a small tool to find your founder archetype, inspired by David Senra and Daniel Ek. Here is the idea behind it.
Bulk Delete Archived Claude Code Sessions
Claude Code has no bulk delete for archived sessions. Paste one browser console script to clear them all via the sessions API.
We don't fall for Twitter hype
How we filter signal from noise when every week brings a new AI tool that's supposed to change everything.
My Claude Code Setup
How I turned Claude Code into an always-on engineering copilot with plugins, Telegram, 35 skills, and a custom status line.
How to fix "unknown @ rule errors" on Zed when using Tailwind v4
There is a simple trick to not show the unknown @ rule errors warnings on CSS files using @apply or other @ properties.
What's the point of working so hard
My take on people thinking that working hard shouldn't be a thing.
My weaknesses
List of weaknesses I had written over the years.
Superpowers
Internal reflections and an analysis of my superpowers.
Lessons from My First LEGO Set
From building my first LEGO set to reflecting on my purpose, it was a weird experience.
Stimulation under control
A new rule has been put in place for myself. No phone access after 10:30pm, and no phone access before 10:00am.
Nilay Patel from The Verge on traffic sources
I completely agree with what Nilay is saying. The age of SEO and inbound leads via third-party traffic sources are over.
Shortage of ideas? Well, no.
Thoughts on the working on new ideas impulsively, and how to handle your impulse.
[Email] Self-worth & standards
A reflection on building self-worth through developing and maintaining high standards in life and work.
Formula 1 and DTS Fans
My thoughts on people who started watching F1 after Drive to Survive on Netflix.
[Email] Reason for zero progress
A powerful reminder about taking personal responsibility and making a difference today rather than relying on historical achievements.
[Email] Skcript in the next 100 years
A personal reflection on Skcript's future vision - creating a concentration of the world's greatest minds in a space that matches Apple's mothership campus.
[Email] People's perspective of leadership
A deep dive into the true essence of leadership, moving beyond command-and-control to focus on empathy, self-reflection, and empowering others.
My newfound hope for racing
Racing is not in my blood. I am not from a place where people are born racers. But racing is my distant dream. This is about my newfound hope for racing in the future.
[Email] Meaning x easy
A powerful reflection on the relationship between meaning and difficulty, and the unwavering determination to achieve one's dreams.
[Email] Getting there
A powerful reminder to keep pushing forward, using others' doubt as fuel to prove them wrong and achieve what they said was impossible.
[Email] Size of dreams
A reflection on how dreams should always exceed our current abilities, driving continuous learning and pushing us to grow beyond our perceived limits.
[Email] People and their dreams
A reflection on the nature of dreams, self-respect, and the collaborative effort required to achieve them.
Making Zed behave like Cursor
You can now configure Zed to behave like Cursor, with an option to enable inline diffs.
Brian Chesky and Simon Sinek on Empathy
A conversation between Brian Chesky and Simon Sinek on empathy
Deep dive into LLMs by Andrej Karpathy
A deep dive into LLMs by Andrej Karpathy
AI + Chat UI = Plan English Programming
Thoughts on Plan English Programming, and how to go about it in the future.
Thedal: the art of seeking
Thedal is a journey of seeking. It's a journey of seeking the best in you and the best in others.
Fixing Astro site build on Cloudflare Pages with Bun
You might be facing issues deploying your Astro website on Cloudflare Pages using Bun. Here is a solution for you.
7 things we've learned in 10 years of Skcript
We've been around for 10 years now. Here are 7 things we've learned in the last decade.