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There Is Only I
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A personal manifesto on responsibility, honesty, and the one truth most people spend their whole life running from. There is one word that decides the shape of your life. One word most people never say out loud because if they…
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Go-To-Market Is a System, Not a Moment: A Practitioner’s Playbook
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Most people think go-to-market is a launch. A date on a calendar, a press release, a landing page, a flurry of LinkedIn posts, and then everyone exhales and waits for the pipeline to fill. That belief has killed more good…
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Made of Stardust: Failure, the Universe, and the Law of Never Stopping
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This is not a payments post. This is not a product management post. This is a personal note the kind I have wanted to write for a long time. I want to talk honestly about failure, the kind that hits…
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The Death of the Checkout: Why the “Buy Now” Button May Become the Exception by 2030
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Let me paint a picture of an ordinary morning in 2030. You wake up. Your smart mirror has noticed your grocery patterns and asks your assistant to reorder oat milk, eggs, and the specific brand of coffee you drink. The…
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The Product Manager’s AI Reckoning: Why 2026 Is the Year You Either Adapt or Get Left Behind
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By Karthick Two weeks ago, I sat in on a hiring panel that had to pick between two Product Manager candidates. Both had 6+ years of experience. Both came from respected companies. Both nailed the case study. The difference? One…
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Ethereum 2026: From Blockchain to Payment Infrastructure What Product Leaders Must Really Understand
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Introduction: Why This Matters Now (Not 3 Years Later) For the last few years, most conversations around Ethereum were trapped in a very narrow lens gas fees, scalability, DeFi hype cycles, and retail speculation. That phase is over. What we…
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Agentic Finance: The Rise of Autonomous Financial Agents in Crypto (2026 Landscape)
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The financial industry is entering a new era one where software agents manage money autonomously. Over the past decade, financial automation evolved from simple trading bots to complex DeFi protocols. But today we are witnessing a much deeper transformation: Agentic…