Tag: Technology and Systems
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Introduction : The Death of the Default Setting
Earlier life came with preloaded scripts. This was enabled by religion, community, and duty, which offered readymade answers to who we were, what was right, and what mattered. These defaults, though imperfect, gave coherence to…
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The Myth of Agile Architecture
Note: This post is a response to a recent blog by the ‘High Priest of Architecture’ at a UK-based bank, and their loyal cronies crooning over it, plus the endless parade of ‘agile evangelists’ parroting…
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Why AI Alone Won’t Change the World
Something’s shifting. For twenty years, the story was simple: software was eating the world. Marc Andreessen made it a headline in Software Is Eating the World, and for a while, it felt like gospel. Apps…
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The Bubble That Builds Tomorrow
This is a guest post I wrote for Beyond Human – The AI Story, a newsletter by Mohit Sharma, CEO & co-founder of PinakaAI. In it, I explore why bubbles form, what history teaches us…
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Mastering How: Why Purpose and Problem Statements Alone Don’t Build Anything
A Conversation That Stuck With Me Recently, I was in a conversation with an expert about AI, Models, and Maths. At one point, he said something that made me pause: I don’t need to know…
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Unlocking the Universe
Have you ever dropped a ball and wondered why it fell straight to the ground? Or watched the stars and asked why the moon moves the way it does? Humans have been asking these questions…
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Dethroning Time: The Universe as a Possibility Space
A New Shift on the Horizon Every few centuries, physics quietly reframes our understanding of reality, not by tweaking equations, but by flipping the very conceptual framework we use to see the universe. Think of…
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The Empire Runs on GPUs
Civilizations don’t just rise; they scaffold themselves. Each era of human progress rests on an invisible “stack”, layers of energy, hardware, communication, and knowledge, stacked atop one another like a precarious but mighty tower. The…
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XIV : What Deutsch Leaves Open
Every theory, no matter how ambitious, has its edges. A map of reality, no matter how precise, eventually meets uncharted territory. David Deutsch’s bold vision, that knowledge and error correction can unlock infinite progress, is…
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XIII : From Theories to Builders
Knowledge Is Not Enough Imagine standing in a library with all the world’s knowledge. Every book ever written, every paper published, every insight recorded, but the world outside remains unchanged. Streets are still dark. People…