Essays

An archive of my writing on topics around business, technology, markets, creativity and living.

January 2025

Jan 13The Next Small Thing
Jan 08AI for Coding

June 2024

Jun 24Apple Intelligence, The Economics of Fast-Moving Markets and OpenAI

October 2022

August 2022

Aug 12The Best $25 I Ever Spent
Aug 11iOS 16 Album Art
Aug 05Galleries of the Future
Aug 03The Jony Ive, J.J. Abrams and Brian Grazer talk
Aug 02Speakers on Silicon Macs
Aug 01Services We Put Our Trust in

July 2022

Jul 31Doesn't That Already Exist? Yes, But..
Jul 30Recession? No, Confusion
Jul 29Be Real-ly Bored

December 2020

Dec 06If your only filter is profit..

July 2020

Jul 23App Limits
Jul 08Request for Startups

June 2020

Jun 27On Fairness Creams & Colourism in Indian Culture
Jun 25WWDC 2020
Jun 17On Apple and Software Distribution
Jun 12The Forgotten Northeast
Jun 09What's next

November 2019

Nov 20A Blank Slate

August 2019

April 2019

Apr 03My favorite picks from Y Combinator Winter 2019
Apr 0116 Startups of Note

March 2019

February 2019

Feb 26Elements of The Complete Man
Feb 25How I evaluate startup investments
Feb 20Climbing up the rabbit hole of social media
Feb 17What makes a good CEO?

December 2018

Dec 29Why do people need this? Well, no one really knows.

August 2015

Aug 30Zero and One
Aug 10The Information Highway

July 2015

Jul 30In the elevator
Jul 30Humankind is fragile

February 2015

Feb 17Warby Parker for this and that
Feb 16Blogging

March 2014

Mar 045 things on my wishlist

February 2014

Feb 10Once upon a Twitter Retreat

April 2013

Apr 17Redesigning an online newspaper

November 2012

Nov 01On Staying Hungry and Foolish

March 2012

Mar 04Wabi-sabi

November 2011

Nov 017 billion

September 2011

Sep 15Facebook Fatigue

January 2011

Jan 09Execution > ideas

June 2009

Jun 08Emptiness

April 2009

Apr 14Do you really need to be a big company?