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What Spotify Wrapped taught me about work

It's that time of the year again. For those that do not have Spotify: Spotify Wrapped is an annual feature that compiles a personalised summary of a user's listening habits from the past year, highlighting their top artists, songs, and genres. It presents this data in

Where value lies

Gen AI's impact on workers are unequal. The good get better, and the bad gets worse. The value of just "getting things done" is eroded since that's exactly what AI is good for. If your value lies in the doing things (doing research, making

When the Measure Becomes the Target: Why the Job Market Feels Broken

People are always talking about jobs, or rather the lack thereof. People are angry. They feel the world has promised them a contract, study hard, get a degree, get a job, that it is no longer honouring. I suspect the root of the problem is a classic case of Goodhart’

My 6 weeks in SF

Reason for the trip We were basically at a "do-or-die" stage with the company, so CEO wants to inject life into the company again. So the plan was, we go to SF, work hard for 6 weeks on the new idea, and if by the end of the

How to: Job satisfaction

Take this with a grain of salt, this take is formed through my own experience and the book "So Good They Can't Ignore You" by Cal Newport. Job satisfaction comes from being good at your job At the beginning of your career, you are most likely

Going back to school, why?

Got accepted into the OMSCS from Georgia Tech back in 2024, and will soon start on it in Jan 2026. Was actually supposed to start on it in Spring 2025 but I deferred it as Emblem pivoted and we were starting from scratch, but that's a story for

Hello world

Hey everyone (or realistically, hello future me) Finally starting a blog, to write down everything related to my career, my life, and learnings along the way. As of today (21 Oct 2025), I am a software engineer, currently working as a founding engineer in an AI startup. What am I