---
title: Start Here
url: https://www.abhinav.co/start-here
summary: Orientation for new visitors - who I am, what I write, and what I build.
author: Abhinav Saxena
---

# Start Here

# Start Here

New here? This is a good place to get oriented.

## Who am I?

I'm Abhinav - a generalist with interests in entrepreneurship, software engineering, product management, and engineering leadership. Read more [about me](/about).

## Featured Writing



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<article class="post-card">
  <a href="/ai-curves" class="post-card-link">
    <h3 class="post-card-title">AI doesn't have a Moore's Law</h3>
    <div class="post-card-meta">
      <time class="post-card-date">21 Apr 2026</time>
    </div>
    
    
      <p class="post-card-summary">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 ...</p>
    
  </a>
  
    <div class="post-card-tags">
      
        <span class="tag">AI</span>
      
        <span class="tag">Scaling Laws</span>
      
        <span class="tag">Moore's Law</span>
      
    </div>
  
</article>




<article class="post-card">
  <a href="/microservices-a-way-to-organize-teams" class="post-card-link">
    <h3 class="post-card-title">Microservices are a people decision, not a technical one.</h3>
    <div class="post-card-meta">
      <time class="post-card-date">21 Feb 2026</time>
    </div>
    
    
      <p class="post-card-summary">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...</p>
    
  </a>
  
    <div class="post-card-tags">
      
        <span class="tag">Microservices</span>
      
        <span class="tag">Software Engineering</span>
      
        <span class="tag">Architecture</span>
      
    </div>
  
</article>




<article class="post-card">
  <a href="/growth-debt-part-1" class="post-card-link">
    <h3 class="post-card-title">Growth Debt - Part 1</h3>
    <div class="post-card-meta">
      <time class="post-card-date">28 Mar 2021</time>
    </div>
    
    
      <p class="post-card-summary">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...</p>
    
  </a>
  
    <div class="post-card-tags">
      
        <span class="tag">Management</span>
      
        <span class="tag">Engineering</span>
      
        <span class="tag">TechDebt</span>
      
    </div>
  
</article>




<article class="post-card">
  <a href="/hierarchy-of-employees-need" class="post-card-link">
    <h3 class="post-card-title">Hierarchy of Employees' Needs</h3>
    <div class="post-card-meta">
      <time class="post-card-date">12 Mar 2021</time>
    </div>
    
    
      <p class="post-card-summary">A framework for understanding what motivates individual team members, mapping Maslow's hierarchy to the workplace - from salary and work quality to...</p>
    
  </a>
  
    <div class="post-card-tags">
      
        <span class="tag">Management</span>
      
        <span class="tag">Leadership</span>
      
        <span class="tag">People</span>
      
    </div>
  
</article>




<article class="post-card">
  <a href="/peacetime" class="post-card-link">
    <h3 class="post-card-title">Peacetime</h3>
    <div class="post-card-meta">
      <time class="post-card-date">26 Nov 2020</time>
    </div>
    
    
      <p class="post-card-summary">We glorify wartime leadership but don't appreciate peacetime leaders enough. Using Satya Nadella and Yahoo as contrasting examples, this post explo...</p>
    
  </a>
  
    <div class="post-card-tags">
      
        <span class="tag">Leadership</span>
      
        <span class="tag">Startup</span>
      
        <span class="tag">Peacetime</span>
      
    </div>
  
</article>

</div>


## Projects

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  <div class="project-cell">
    <div class="project-cell-title">
      <a href="https://vrk.sh/">vrk</a> <mark>NEW</mark>
    </div>
    <p class="project-cell-desc">Unix tools for the agent era</p>
  </div>

  <div class="project-cell">
    <div class="project-cell-title">
      <a href="https://plugdash.dev">PlugDash</a> <mark>NEW</mark>
    </div>
    <p class="project-cell-desc">Plugins for EmDash sites: heartpost, sharepost, tocgen, callout, readtime, shortlink</p>
  </div>

  <div class="project-cell">
    <div class="project-cell-title">
      <a href="https://soniq.abhinav.co">Soniq</a> <mark>NEW</mark>
    </div>
    <p class="project-cell-desc">All-in-one background job processing for Python</p>
  </div>

  <div class="project-cell">
    <div class="project-cell-title">
      <a href="/moonwalk">Moonwalk</a>
    </div>
    <p class="project-cell-desc">A fast & minimalist Jekyll blog theme with clean dark mode</p>
  </div>

  <div class="project-cell">
    <div class="project-cell-title">
      <a href="https://www.httplex.com">HTTPlex</a>
    </div>
    <p class="project-cell-desc">A simple HTTP request & response service</p>
  </div>

  <div class="project-cell">
    <div class="project-cell-title">
      <a href="/cookie">Cookie</a>
    </div>
    <p class="project-cell-desc">An open source landing website with supporting pages and integrated blog</p>
  </div>

</div>

[See all projects →](/projects)

## Explore

- [All blog posts](/blog)
- [Notes and TIL](/notes)
- [Chhoti Si Kahani - Hindi stories](https://www.chhotisikahani.com/)