What a traditional cooking oil taught me about how institutions think about risk, familiarity, and trust, and why the same flawed logic shapes enterprise attitudes toward open source software.
Every department and every employee contributes to the organisation’s success. The opportunity lies in shifting mindsets from ‘I’m just doing my job’ to ‘I am an owner, accountable for value.’
A reflection on the lessons learned from building, innovating, and realizing that execution and amplification matter more than invention alone.
From SourceForge to GitHub to what comes next - tracing the evolution of open source collaboration platforms and the lessons hidden in their rise and fall.
There is a particular kind of disappointment that comes not from failure, but from betrayal. Not the dramatic kind. The quiet kind. The kind where something you trusted, something you built around, something you advocated for, simply changes the rules. That is what the Terraform licensing shift felt like. Not a catastrophe. Not an emergency. Just a slow, uncomfortable realization that the ground had moved beneath our feet. The Relationship We Had Terraform was not just a tool. It was an idea. ...
You don’t need to start your own venture to be an entrepreneur. Intrapreneurship is entrepreneurship with a different address.
Container migration looks deceptively simple. The real challenge isn’t running docker run - it’s doing it the right way for enterprise-grade results.
I was never exceptional. I was never failing either. I was simply average. In the Indian education system, average is a peculiar place to occupy. You are not celebrated. You are not rescued. You exist in the middle, visible enough to be counted but not enough to be remembered. This is not a complaint. It is context. Because what I learned from that middle ground shaped everything that came after. ...
The journey from technology zealot to pragmatic problem-solver. Passion is the fuel, but pragmatism is the compass.
Ventures might fail, but entrepreneurs never fail. A reflection on how a father’s dream and a teacher’s words shaped my understanding of success and failure.