Product management, user experience, writing, and everything else close to my heart.
Mocking users, or believing that users are dumb. You should instead improve the usability of what you’ve built so that things are more clear to whoever uses your product. Otherwise, iterate on the solution you’ve built so that it’s more valuable to them. If someone makes fun of their users or claims that they’re stupid, it shows nothing […]
Everyone is status-seeking. Some are more status-seeking than others. Here’s a shortcut to happiness: hangout with people who are less obsessed about talking about their status and about preserving it. Life feels calmer and happier 🙂
I’m not sure why grunt work is looked down upon by people who engage in creative work. I’ve had these thoughts show up earlier, but I ran into this line of thinking again yesterday when I was sifting through a lot of data at work. Some context: RepX is a conversational AI sales agent for […]
Vandana, who used to work at Freshworks, wrote this beautiful piece on gifting and the power of paying attention. She opened it with a story about a gift idea I came up with many years ago when Girish met Jeff Bezos 🙂
I don’t write a lot about myself here, but only about the things I’ve observed and learnt. Today, I’m going to digress a bit, though. One of my favourite feelings in the world is when folks from teams I’ve worked at, tell me they miss me. It certainly means a lot to me – obviously, […]
When you look at what’s perceived as the best product in any market – you feel like you cannot win against them. It just feels like a battle where there’s only one outcome – eventual failure. The best products in any space have worked on a problem for many years, or sometimes just a year […]
Learnt something today:
Here’s an idea: a personal AI yoga tutor. At least the private yoga sessions (if not the yoga studio ones) could be taken away by AI. Definitely see this becoming reality in the next few years 🙂 This AI yoga tutor will:– join video calls with you,– analyze your poses,– give you real-time feedback,– track […]
I think vibe coding platforms will start having App Stores where you can pay for software that’s been vibe coded. Sort of like marketplaces that sell icons, WordPress themes, etc. but for vibe-coded apps. There’s people already selling N8N workflows for extremely specific usecases, so why not sell vibe-coded apps? These platforms are improving like […]
What are the most uncomfortable truths based on which you need to be making decisions right now? Truths that you’re not paying attention to yet, despite knowing about them.