Writing about culture, shared norms, judgment, and the shape of work.
23 entries
The networks that shape us are not the ones we can list, but the smaller set of minds whose judgment we permit to alter our own. A richer intellectual life may depend less on who we add than on whose authority we learn to withdraw.
Several earlier arguments about work, sovereignty, and AI are becoming less speculative as events catch up. The question is whether we can notice the present before consensus names it.
The most useful questions were ordinary ones: what changes Monday, which problem was observed, and whether the promised capability exists beyond the presentation.
Delay is not indecision but a disciplined refusal to let the first available explanation become the only one. Question assumptions, incentives, emotions, and sources before accepting a story.
AI does not persuade; it concludes, removing the interval in which doubt might have lived. What remains is fluency mistaken for truth, and consensus reduced to the absence of difference.
Work is no longer one shared contract. Different generations are optimizing for different virtues, and organizations have not caught up.
At the AI Summit, the sameness of AI products and marketing is hard to miss. Credibility will belong to companies with sharper, truer, more specific stories.
Markets are pricing AI on a future shaped by foundational model capability and rapid workflow innovation. As leaderboards continue to shift, the case for broad AI pessimism remains premature.
High-performance teams do not rely on charisma or surveillance. They run on judgment, standards, and the habits people keep when nobody is looking.
Companies can fall into an AI loop of modernization and cost savings. Breaking it requires wanting more: resilience, intelligence, and speed.
Distribution is no longer a durable moat. The next wave will win with modular, AI-native technology, outcome-based pricing, and domain-specific units of intelligence that augment higher-value work.
AI is making people-heavy operations less necessary. Indian IT firms must shift from billing for headcount and hours to pricing technology margins, outcomes, and capabilities that expand what clients can do.
Most festivals celebrate the victors. Onam is.
As Microland turned 36, Nextronauts brought together hands-on exploration, discovery, and imagination—reminding us that curiosity and possibility are the real engines of progress.
Your feed isn’t a mirror of reality; it’s a version of reality chosen for you by an algorithm that decides which voices rise and which quietly disappear.
In an age of agents, the advantage is not pretending humans are obsolete. It is building systems that still care about judgment, ownership, and taste.
The future of work may favor AI, resilience, and creativity, but those skills depend on the basics: reading, writing, mathematics, reasoning, and the ability to teach others.
Workplaces need the energy of fan communities: curiosity, shared language, and people who care enough to debate the world they are building.
Innovation teams fail when they become hobbies. They thrive when they operate like a disciplined crew with a mission, roles, and mutual trust.
Silence feels safe until it becomes expensive. The best leaders make room for dissent before the mistake ships.
