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You Don't Have to Quit Your Job to Start Building Something

Four books on intrapreneurship, AI judgment, software sovereignty, and algorithms — and what they mean for software engineers who want to build more than features.

... 3/21/26
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The Same Emoji Means Different Things in Different Cultures

How a red heart carries sadness in Turkish but joy in English — and what Ekman's emotions, Jaccard similarity, and power laws reveal about branding across cultures.

... 3/20/26
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When Delivery Speed Becomes the Marketing Message

How Blinkit and Zomato turned 10-minute delivery into memes, emotions, and brand identity — and what product thinking and graph algorithms have to do with it.

... 3/20/26

Every App You Use Is Really Just a Conversation

How the patterns behind modern apps — request/response, async, routing, threads — map to restaurants, kitchens, and apartment buildings.

... 3/17/26

Building Good Products Means Understanding More Than Tech

A practical look at product thinking, value proposition, product-market fit, and why client-server communication sits underneath so much of what we build.

... 3/14/26