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I’m Abhinav - a generalist with interests in entrepreneurship, software engineering, product management, and engineering leadership. Read more about me.
Featured Writing
AI doesn't have a Moore's Law
AI progress isn't one curve doubling on a clock. It's a bundle of partially correlated curves, each running on its own logic, each hitting its own ...
Microservices are a people decision, not a technical one.
Microservices are mostly a way to organize teams, not to scale systems. Most companies adopt them backwards, and AI coding agents make the case for...
Growth Debt - Part 1
As companies grow, they accumulate what I call growth debt - genuine reasons why shipping slows down that have nothing to do with team effort or co...
Hierarchy of Employees' Needs
A framework for understanding what motivates individual team members, mapping Maslow's hierarchy to the workplace - from salary and work quality to...
Peacetime
We glorify wartime leadership but don't appreciate peacetime leaders enough. Using Satya Nadella and Yahoo as contrasting examples, this post explo...
Projects
Unix tools for the agent era
Plugins for EmDash sites: heartpost, sharepost, tocgen, callout, readtime, shortlink
All-in-one background job processing for Python
Full-stack Python, no React required: auth, jobs, HTMX kit, and one-command deploy
A fast & minimalist Jekyll blog theme with clean dark mode
A simple HTTP request & response service