4 years and 100 posts later

“Do 100 things” framing from Visakan really impacted the production of this newsletter.

In June 2023 during a fleeting moment of inspiration , I decided to change the writing format over here and commit to writing 100 issues. Simultaneously I started a personal site where my more longstanding essays and ideas will reside.

I was one of those people that found the idea’s simplicity alluring and wanted to put it to practice.

When I decided to do it, I had no clue it would take 3 more years to get to this milestone.

I started writing here as a way to make sense of the learnings from my startup experience and the problem space we operated in. Over the years, it transformed into my on the side quests that I am thinking through in public.

The goal was to hit 100 and reflect whether I like to continue. As I complete this feat, envisioning a week without writing over here is troubling.

I will continue to write as long as I will think about work and ways to solve problems.

Writing has proven to have an outsized return and impact on my career. And I am not even a decent one. In this day and age, not talking about the stuff you are thinking is not being serious.

Let me channel Logan Roy and remind you that writing online can present you as a serious person.

If there is one thing I keep repeating to anyone who listens - You should write the post in public. Let others who find the topic interesting know your point of view. More operators should be writing to move the vocation forward.

In terms of people who receive this in their inboxes, we have 27 people who are brave enough to tolerate my musings and be notified about it. I would love to increase that number. So, if you liked what you read so far. Please subscribe

Round up

Since the start of this year, I have been solely writing about Logistics and AI.

We are experiencing a shift in SDC - Software development cycle and advent of AI is changing the expectation of buyers of software. So, its been on top of my mind every week.

But instead of going down the same beat, I wanted to take this moment to recommend few of the writers who I religiously read and are not related to AI.

Commoncog is the best resource for increasing expertise in business. Cedric is prolific in the community’s forum and seeing him moderate and engage gives me hope that online communities are possible.

Sameera is a cartoonist who writes her ongoing memoir in a newsletter format. Her writing is fresh and thought provoking. She hails from the same town I grew up in.So, the stories resonate with my own experiences.

Visakan is himself doing 100 posts newsletter writing expedition. I look forward to each of his posts .

Links that resonated

2nd Phase of agentic development

Dave writes about the current crop of agentic development being pursued by orchestrating the agents.

The most important teams in tech

Why engineering and sales are the most important teams. A nice piece reemphasising importance of these two teams and why failure in any one of them is catastrophic.

Sign off

The occasion of 100 issues marks some celebration but I am not feeling it. This exercise of writing or attempting to write has been a consistent part of my life when everything in my life changed in the last 4 years.

Now, work itself in changing and I find solace in having this outlet to think it through in public.

Signing off for the 100th time,

Vivek, back to regular programming from the next one.