Shreyas Prakash
Essays on design, product, and technology
Latest posts
Solenoid
Watching the English
The Scout Mindset
Scaling People
18 key ideas from reading Henrik Karlsson this month
Stop arguing, and start drawing circles together
The whole world is just the snake eating its own tail
A philosophy of software design
Important software principles outlined, practically also useful for coding with agents, as you can guide them better with these principles
Life lessons and hot takes from my 30s
Building a skill for coherent science illustrations
My agentic engineering workflow (step by step)
Hammock driven development
Peculiar ways number three fits into our funny little brains
In service of the republic
AI sandwich as a defacto principle for anything agentic engineering related
Authority in the guise of evidence
Map is not the territory
Self hypnosis as a manifestation ritual
Hegelian dialectic for structured reasoning with AI agents
Great mental models
New take on age-old mental models
How I prepare for tough negotiations nowadays
When should we steelthread something
Breadboarding, shaping, slicing, and steelthreading solutions with AI agents
Five dysfunctions
team-building
Healthy conflict in teams have a tipping point
How I deslopify AI writing
How I started building softwares with AI agents being non technical
Read raw transcripts
Chinas world view
China's world view as explained by a non-partisan economic policymaker from China
Legible and illegible tasks in organisations
L2 Fat marker sketches
Writing as moats for humans
Butter
Tempted me to spread butter on my ramen, my rice, and even my chapathis.
Antimimetics
ideas that spread slow, that spread fast and those that spread fast but are difficult to get infected with a host
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
A heartwarming story about a young woman who finds solace and purpose in her uncle's secondhand bookshop, learning about love, loss, and the healing power of books.
Beauty of second degree probes
Boundary objects as the new prototypes
One way door decisions
Finished softwares should exist
How I periodically rank my rough drafts
Flipping questions on its head
Vibe writing maxims
How I blog with Obsidian, Cloudflare, AstroJS, Github
How I build greenfield apps with AI-assisted coding
We have been scammed by the Gaussian distribution club
Classify incentive problems into stag hunts, and prisoners dilemmas
I was wrong about optimal stopping
Thinking like a ship
Righteous Mind
Why fight between two people is a fight between two different value systems