Hari Digresses

This News was Not Fit to Print

Yesterday’s NYT piece was intellectually defunct.

Dec 2 • 

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November 2025

Software is the newest art form

Fashion, food, architecture... and now pixels.

Nov 10 • 

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October 2025

Catalyst, Compound, and Composite Startups

Catalyst Startups

Oct 24 • 

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Enterprising Software, Part 1: Products vs. Platforms

Parker Conrad, the founder of Rippling, coined the term “Compound Startup.” He proposes the idea of a B2B software platform that intentionally takes a…

Oct 22 • 

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The CEO Complexes

Every founder / CEO has a complex, which I think falls into one of three types.

Oct 9 • 

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September 2025

This one is mine

A story about the economics, duties, and privileges that come with being a citizen of startups.

Sep 23 • 

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Software is the new content

You had a good run, blogs.

Sep 15 • 

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August 2025

What I wish I'd done differently with AbstractOps

All successful startups are alike; each failed startup is a failure in its own way

Aug 4 • 

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July 2025

The Cobra Effect

There is a story that there were too many venomous cobras in Delhi in the 1800s.

Jul 16 • 

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June 2025

We need to talk about "slop"

What Zohran Mamdani, AI, and Cluely have in common

Jun 27 • 

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Random learnings on geopolitics from "The Next 100 Years"

The Next 100 Years was a fascinating read.

Jun 5 • 

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April 2025

Fair Offer, Part III: Beyond Base Salary

How to combine Base Salary, Bonus, and Equity — to design comprehensive compensation bands & make compelling offers

Apr 12 • 

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