China’s push to reduce dependence on foreign technology holds lessons for India. Not about banning Microsoft or AWS, but about building the capability to choose - through education, open source ecosystems, and entrepreneurship.
Why the conversation about education must move beyond blame towards building hope. Every crisis produces outrage. But outrage fades. What remains is the system we failed to fix.
A week ago, my club flag travelled with me from Bengaluru to the United States. This is an open letter to my Rotary family in America - about flags, friendships, and the ideas that emerge when Rotarians from different worlds sit down together.
A few days ago, I was inducted into Rotary once again. For many, that may seem like the start of a new journey. For me, it feels more like coming home.
For years, we built the factory. Pipelines, platforms, guardrails. Then something dangerous happened - the DevOps team decided to build a product of its own.
Most enterprises are buying the F-35s of software - full-scale platforms engineered for extreme scenarios they will never face. The future belongs to composable, modular architectures. A perspective on capability thinking vs platform thinking.
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.