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Who am I?
I’m Abhinav - a generalist with interests in entrepreneurship, software engineering, product management, and engineering leadership. Read more about me.
Featured Writing
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...
Digital Colonies
Our time and attention are the new resources that tech giants fight to control, much like colonial powers fought over land. It's become exponential...
Projects
Unix tools for the agent era
Full-stack Python, no React required: auth, jobs, HTMX kit, and one-command deploy
An async job queue that runs on the Postgres you already have
Plugins for EmDash sites: heartpost, sharepost, tocgen, callout, readtime, shortlink
A fast & minimalist Jekyll blog theme with clean dark mode
A simple HTTP request & response service