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The Death of the Application

The Death of the Application Why Everything We Built Was a Workaround — And What Comes Next What if everything we know about enterprise software design is about to become obsolete? For forty+ years, we’ve built systems around a single assumption: humans need interfaces to accomplish tasks. We’ve designed screens, workflows, navigation patterns, and training programs — all because software couldn’t understand what users actually wanted. That assumption is dying. And it’s taking the traditional …

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How I’m Thinking About the New Year

The start of a new year is often a natural moment to pause and think deliberately about what comes next. For me, it is less about declaring resolutions and more about being deliberate in how I think about the year ahead. I do believe in setting goals, but only when they are grounded in a clear understanding of the technology decisions that actually shape outcomes over time. In modern organizations, those decisions span software architecture, …

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Rethinking Data Warehouse Modeling With AI Assistance

A faster, more reliable way to design complex models using an AI coding assistant and warehouse-integrated validation. Data modeling can be a slow and tedious process. Teams interpret raw schemas, chase down logic across any existing dashboards and SQL files, write and refine transformations, test, debug, and repeat. It works, but most of the time is not spent on modeling. It is spent on mechanics. Lately I have experimented with a workflow that keeps modeling …

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Twenty Days in Chimbalhar

Time has a different texture in the mountains. It stretches, softens, and moves in quiet loops instead of straight lines. Tucked inside this gentler rhythm, a short drive from Palampur in Himachal Pradesh, is a small village called Chimbalhar. It’s easy to miss on a map and even easier to underestimate until you arrive and feel the pace of life shift around you. Nothing rushes here. Nothing interrupts. You come thinking you’re simply staying for …

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The New Leader’s Playbook: Situational Do’s and Don’ts for a Successful Start

Starting a new leadership role is one of the most high-stakes transitions in any career. I’ve gone through it multiple times across very different organizations—fast-moving startups, operationally intense mid-market firms, and post-acquisition integrations. Each time, I was reminded that there’s no universal “first 90 days” checklist that works everywhere. You’re not just taking over responsibilities. You’re entering a live system with its own history, culture, relationships, and battle scars. The way you move early on …

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