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Writing

Between two anthologies

Essays about agents and building, fiction about everything else. One anthology of stories, one of science fiction, both in progress and both fighting back.

Engraving of a fountain pen and inkwell, ink swirling into a small galaxy

Essay · Coming soon

The Agent-Native Company

What actually changes when you stop bolting AI onto the org chart and start designing the company as if agents were colleagues from day one.

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Explaining Hard Things Simply

The one skill under everything I do. Why clarity is a moral act, and the working method I use to make a difficult idea legible without dumbing it down.

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What the Raga Taught the Machine

Indian classical music is structured improvisation inside a fixed space. That turns out to be the truest description I have of building with agents.

Fiction · Fragment

The Cartographer of Silences

A short sci-fi fragment from the anthology, about a woman who maps the pauses in machine speech and what she finds living in them.

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Building Solo, Then Building a Company

What twenty-plus SaaS products shipped alone taught me, and everything that stopped being true the moment other people depended on the work.

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From India, For the World

On building a world-class AI company from here without asking permission, and why the constraint has been the best thing about the work.

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