Joseph Jude

At times, coding with GenAI tools feel like this ;-)

A critic doesnt have skin in the game. A coach has.

Why I am skeptical of capturing all decision traces in business? > Often business is just human beings doing human being things. With simple human incentives and motivations. Never ignore the human aspects of business. Always keep the individuals, their motivations, fears,…

Checking out How is it different from and the related open source IDEs?

Winners pay for many experiments - Jeff Bezos, 2015 annual letter GenAI has empowered companies to conduct numerous experiments and accelerate their learning. Those who experiment and learn quickly will gain leverage, and this advantage will only compound over time. It's great…

Some in the enterprise world are buzzing about GenAI's impact on data stacks and products. I'm still assisting others with CSV integration for their legacy ERPs. How long do you think this second category will endure?

Predictions: - documentation will disappear - open source software will disappear - companies will offer manual support as premium option - companies will offer someone coming to your office and fixing as super-premium option - there will be more software

Only one thing I will add to this excellent list of "intelligent risk": Intelligent risks are always two way doors (with some impact). You can walk back.

Recently @SejalSud gifted "Steal Like An Artist" by @austinkleon. My younger son loved it, finished it quickly and wrote a review of the book. Encourage kids to read more books. Specifically, books that inspire them to be creative. Read the review here:

Benefits of Green Tea Green tea has become a luxury belief. I'm not sure if it truly offers health benefits, though most claim it does. It's like classic literature—hardly anyone reads it, yet everyone insists it should be read.

For Indian traffic a car like i10 is great. You feel like Jason Bourne everyday as you zig through traffic

After reading about decision traces and context graphs by @JayaGup10, I started watching how decisions are actually made and wonder if we can really capture decision traces in organizations. As a technologist, their argument makes sense. We have systems of record. Amazons and…

Perplexity is becoming my go-to site for news: You can create your own spaces too. I'm wondering if we're witnessing the Facebook days all over again. Facebook enticed news outlets to publish on their platform, then choked the news media.

Got out of ITC fully last year. Seems like a good decision.

Viewing GenAI as a productivity enhancer is not incorrect but only partially accurate. Consider GenAI as a tool that empowers you to achieve what was previously impossible: • Create a new category of business • Increase revenue per employee • Build one-person million-dollar…

Do you guys use EazyDiner? How is it different from book and pay using the app option in Swiggy & Zomato?

Emotional intelligence = holding opposite truths at the same time and still functioning. As a CXO, I often have to embrace opposite truths when dealing with people & situations. Here are some examples: - Believe in people YET hold them accountable - Lead with kindness YET make…

You can’t chase productivity directly. It's like happiness or wealth. The moment you pursue it head-on, it slips away. Happiness, wealth, and productivity are side effects, not first-order results. 1/16

Have you used both Google's antigravity & Claude Code? How do these compare? I used antigravity to develop an app. I like it. Wondering how it compares to Claude Code.

I'm excited to release an app that I "vibe-coded" (using prompt-based coding instead of traditional coding). As an avid reader, I wanted a way to share Amazon region-specific URLs for books, complete with affiliate tags. That's why I developed this app. Almost all of the 8,848…

In 2025, I managed to get 45k page views. 13k views came from another 3k came from Hoping to get more views this year.

Two mental models I follow: • strong opinions loosely held (for ideas) • everything is an experiment (for actions) This helps me to change my mind quickly on anything if there is enough evidence to the contrary.

Thank you Arjun for posting this here. I showed this to my homeschooled son (16 yrs) and told him, these are the skills you should develop if you want to smartcut your growth.

> The collapse of this regime will give a huge boost for secularism n the Middle East. I have heard this "hope" with Iraq, Libya, and others too (like Arab uprising). Not sure in each case it ended up better for their citizens. Yes it was "feel good" for outsiders

My wish for you in 2026: Find your gang of lunatics who will make your journey worthwhile. I have already found mine.

I have been publishing annual review for the past 11 years. I just published one for 2025. Every 12 weeks, I pursue activities under: • Wealth • Insights • Network • Self ⇒ WINS Little bit of WINS every 12 weeks. Read my annual review here:

Darkness is often overwhelming. But unless you let it, it can never overpower you.

Planning is easy; doing is hard. As we enter the new year, I'm sure many of you are thinking about goals. If history is any indicator, we often abandon our goals quicker than we expect. So, what is the fix? My little boy talks about the process I taught him and what he follows.…

> What is useful, then? All the things that require thought and judgment: architecture, writing for maintainability (including naming), refactoring for simplicity and good structure, etc

I have been facing this issue. I didn't have any mcps. Restart @antigravity

Is income inequality a lagging indicator of skill inequality and grit inequality?

Continued optimisation for efficiency removes flexibility to pursue opportunities for flexible growth. Efficiency removes wastage & buffer. These two are the vital blocks for flexibility

Systems of agents startups have a structural advantage: they’re in the orchestration path. - @JayaGup10 Systems of record are static snapshots of decisions. They lack the context—such as the discussions that led to the final deal, reasons for discounts, and debates that granted…

Barbell blogging ;-) I tell my friends that I follow the barbell strategy for everything (a concept I learned from Taleb). It seems that, unknowingly, I also applied the barbell strategy to my blogging—crowded in the first and last two months, and sparse throughout all the…

My bet for 2026: A Substack for Apps Steve Jobs once talked about technological windows — moments when enough pieces come together to make a real leap possible. I think we’re entering one of those moments for software creation. Today, building an app is no longer the hard part.…

Bellwether of a crumbling democracy is always a violation of human rights — Madam Secretary

Vengeance is not violence. Three years ago, religious thugs stormed into our church during a Sunday service. They shouted slogans, interrupted prayer, and threatened everyone. They came back the next Sunday. And the next. After three Sundays, the pastor decided to move out.…

Anthropic launches enterprise ‘Agent Skills’ and opens the standard, challenging OpenAI in workplace AI -

I escaped just in time. Left early and took a round about roads to reach home.

Lao Tzu — An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox. Translation — When you can’t do it all, at least do something.

You earn respect not by the number of projects you start, but by what you actually finish. As we come to the end of the year, many of us are already thinking about the goals we want to start in the new year. New plans. New habits. New resolutions. If the average person is any…

The more I use cursor, antigravity to generate code and debug, the more I realize, my coding and debugging skills are going down. Both from laziness and cognitive decline. Debugging is one thing I've always prided myself on. I wonder how this will morph in the new era.

> learning works best when listening comes first.

Interesting law. Apparently the police don’t have to disclose the details of the crime committed. They don’t have to disclose who complained. What was the crime. They have to only share: there was a call and I am arresting you. Seems bit too much of heavy hand.

On another hand Sathya Nadella also says they are are scaling down their AI goals. Right hand doesn’t know what the left hand does.

I keep goal-setting process minimal, which makes it effective. Discussing my approach with friends today. Interested? Join us. We'll cover: • 3 types of goals (have, do, be) • 4 areas (wealth, insights, network, self) • Plan→Do→Review • Plan for 12 weeks Register here:…

I measure my wealth by freedom to chat with friends on a Monday morning without phone calls. On that yardstick, I am extremely wealthy. And I am thankful for that. I don't see Sejal as 25 year younger to me. She comes with piercing questions that makes me pause, think, and…

Madam Secretary > The Diplomat I watched about 3 seasons of Madam Secretary and the first season of The Diplomat. Both resemble in their plot. But somehow the plot, characters, and the acting is better in Madam Secretary. Which one you like?

Where is the most potential in this world? Arpit began the session with this thought-provoking question. His answer: the graveyard. Because so many people die without realizing their fullest potential. So, are you living up to your fullest potential?

> A thick desire is one that changes you in the process of pursuing it. > A thin desire is one that doesn't. source: