The Big Fucking Monkey Game
On holiday, I tried tearing down every authority figure I had absorbed and ended up with one useful thought: everyone is a monkey playing games.
Karan Thoughts I liked enough to let escape.
Notes, half-formed theories, and small things I wanted to remember without making a whole performance out of them.
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June 2026 It Feels Like Cheating
I made writing for this site so easy it started to feel suspicious. But maybe the cheating is not in using AI. Maybe the cheating is removing the friction between noticing something and leaving a trace of it.
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I Refused The Ritual, Then Invented My Own
I refused to get into a temple purification pond full of fish, then immediately used AI and philosophy to make myself feel better about it.
Very Very Fucking Simple
On holiday, I kept thinking about the learning app and realized the plan might be annoyingly simple: serve 20 to 50 people well, prove the loop, then scale what works.
The Status Game I Still Play
At lunch, I noticed a small status game still running in me: the urge to prove intelligence, taste, depth, and maybe even how little I care about status.
Being Weird Is The Moat
AI is making copying faster, cheaper, and more inevitable. So maybe the moat is not just execution. Maybe it is attention, taste, and a company having a flavour that can only come from the authentic nature of its leadership.
A Permissionless Portfolio Of Playful Rubbish
I thought I was learning AI agents. But after a week of getting my hands dirty, the real thing I noticed was stranger: maybe the business bottleneck is no longer permission, capital, or even me.
I Was Being Cheap With Intelligence
Watching Y Combinator talk about “token maxing” made me realize I was still using AI with a scarcity mindset. If intelligence is becoming abundant, the real bottlenecks are no longer tokens or effort, but aim, taste, review, and iteration.
We Need To Forget How We Worked
The interface for work is shifting from clicking around apps to expressing clear intent into connected systems. If that is true, productivity becomes less about operating software and more about thinking clearly enough to direct it.
Just keep hitting
Learning starts to change when you stop watching from the stands and get back on the court.