Index
Everything
Long-form documents and every article, organised by section.
Long-form
Research Report
The Operational Visibility Gap
Why 68% of VP searches stall past week 10 — and what the data says about a different architecture.
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Ebook
The Opportunity Framework
A structured guide to how opportunity forms, compounds, and how to build systems that create it.
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Section
Opportunity
On how opportunity shapes lives, societies, and the arc of human progress.
- What Missed Opportunity Actually Costs4 min read
- The Obligation That Comes With Getting Through the Door5 min read
- The Information Gap4 min read
- The Geography of Opportunity4 min read
- AI and Opportunity — Distribution or Concentration?4 min read
- Networks Are Not Networking5 min read
- What Is Opportunity?6 min read
- How Opportunity Compounds Over Time6 min read
- Opportunity in Rural India6 min read
- Systems That Create Opportunity6 min read
- Systems That Destroy Opportunity7 min read
- How to Create Opportunity for Others7 min read
- Opportunity Changes Lives5 min read
- Opportunity in India5 min read
- First-Generation Professionals and Opportunity6 min read
- Opportunity Gaps — Where They Exist and Why6 min read
- Talent Is Evenly Distributed. Opportunity Is Not.4 min read
- Improving Lives With New Opportunities5 min read
- Opportunity and Mobility in Modern India3 min read
Section
Future of Work
AI, automation, and how the nature of work is being transformed.
- Why Every Sector Learns Observability the Hard Way5 min read
- The Recruiter Isn't Being Replaced. The Job Is Being Redesigned.4 min read
- AI and Hiring — What Actually Changes4 min read
- AI and Education4 min read
- The Autonomous Hiring Era4 min read
- AI and India4 min read
- Remote Work — What We Now Know4 min read
- Global Talent — How Borders Are Dissolving4 min read
- Skills vs Degrees — The Ongoing Shift4 min read
- What Makes Great Talent Stand Out4 min read
- Why Talented People Stay Unnoticed5 min read
- AI and Human Potential5 min read
- The Next Decade of Work4 min read
- What Automation Cannot Replace4 min read
Section
India
Infrastructure, technology, policy, and the making of a new India.
- Why Global Companies Should Hire From India6 min read
- Nationalism vs Patriotism4 min read
- Why India's Moment Is Now5 min read
- India's Technology Ecosystem5 min read
- India's Startup Ecosystem5 min read
- India vs China — The Talent Comparison5 min read
- Remote Work and India5 min read
- India's Future in 10 Years5 min read
- Tier 2 and Tier 3 Cities in India5 min read
- Karnataka — India's Technology Capital4 min read
- Maharashtra — India's Economic Powerhouse4 min read
- Tamil Nadu — Manufacturing, Education, and the Southern Model4 min read
- Telangana — India's Youngest State and Its Second Technology Capital4 min read
- India's Infrastructure Revolution6 min read
- The Most Underrated Innovation in India3 min read
- The India I See4 min read
- The Future of Indian Cities4 min read
- Digital Public Infrastructure4 min read
- India's Greatest Asset Is Its People4 min read
- India's AI Opportunity6 min read
- State Capacity Is the Ultimate Competitive Advantage4 min read
- Building for a Billion People4 min read
- How 4G Changed India4 min read
- What Good Policy Actually Looks Like3 min read
- Why India's Scale Matters3 min read
- Why Infrastructure Matters More Than Headlines3 min read
Section
Odisha
Development, tourism, culture, and the untapped potential of a remarkable state.
- Is Odisha Good for Startups?3 min read
- Why Is Odisha Underrated?3 min read
- Is Bhubaneswar a Tech Hub?3 min read
- What Industries Are Growing in Odisha?4 min read
- Why Should Companies Hire From Odisha?4 min read
- What Is Odisha Known For?4 min read
- Is Odisha Safe to Visit?3 min read
- What Is the Future of Bhubaneswar?4 min read
- Why Odisha Matters4 min read
- Beyond GDP: What a Developed Odisha Must Be Answerable For4 min read
- Odisha Economy — Current State and Trajectory3 min read
- Odisha Talent — What the State Produces4 min read
- Odisha Startups — Who Is Building Here4 min read
- Odisha Infrastructure — The Foundation Being Built4 min read
- Odisha Technology Ecosystem4 min read
- Odisha AI Ecosystem — Where It Stands and Where It's Going4 min read
- Odisha Manufacturing — The Industrial Engine of Eastern India4 min read
- Odisha Tourism — The Most Underused Asset4 min read
- Odisha vs Karnataka — A Fair Comparison4 min read
- Odisha vs Gujarat — Two Industrial States, Different Paths4 min read
- Why Global Companies Should Consider Odisha4 min read
- Odisha Is Building the Wrong Transport System4 min read
- Cuttack — The Silver City and Odisha's Commercial Heart4 min read
- Rourkela — Steel City, Steel Mind4 min read
- Sambalpur — Western Odisha's Capital and the Heart of Sambalpuri Culture4 min read
- Berhampur — Southern Odisha's Commercial Gateway4 min read
- The Biopharma Gap Eastern India Hasn't Noticed4 min read
- What Kalinga Knew About the Indian Ocean4 min read
- Odisha's Resource Trap4 min read
- Bhubaneswar: Can It Become an AI City?6 min read
- Odisha's Untapped Potential4 min read
- The Future of Odisha3 min read
- A Love Letter to Odisha4 min read
- Building a Global Business from Odisha3 min read
- What Odisha Gets Right3 min read
- Showing Friends Around Odisha3 min read
- Why I Keep Talking About Odisha3 min read
Section
Kalahandi
Where I come from, what it taught me, and why it still shapes how I think about everything.
- What Development Actually Looks Like in Kalahandi8 min read
- What Kalahandi Taught Me About Opportunity3 min read
- The Childhood Lessons I Still Use Every Day3 min read
- The Kalahandi Most People Never See4 min read
- Why Places Like Kalahandi Produce Determined People4 min read
- Growing Up in an Odia Medium School4 min read
- The Future of Kalahandi3 min read
- Talent From Small-Town India4 min read
- Lessons From Rural India That Apply Globally5 min read
- Kalahandi and the Opportunity Gap5 min read
- Entrepreneurship in Kalahandi5 min read
- What Kalahandi Taught Me About Resilience4 min read
- What Kalahandi Taught Me About Human Nature5 min read
- Growing Up in Kalahandi6 min read
- What Is Kalahandi?4 min read
- Building from Kalahandi3 min read
Section
Travel
What crossing borders teaches us about perspective, people, and identity.
- What Travel Has Taught Me5 min read
- Places That Changed How I Think5 min read
- What Home Looks Like From Far Away4 min read
- Travel as a Learning System5 min read
- What Does Travel Teach You About Yourself?4 min read
- Why Frequent Travelers Think Differently5 min read
- What Travel Teaches Us About Home5 min read
- Langkawi: The Day Everything Looked Perfect4 min read
- Lessons from Airports4 min read
- Stories from the Road3 min read
- Why Food Matters More Than We Think3 min read
Section
Entrepreneurship
Building things, executing with conviction, and thinking long-term.
- Why Most Founders Quit Too Early4 min read
- HackerNoon Named Majhi Group a Startup of the Year. Here Is What That Actually Means.4 min read
- What Am I Building?4 min read
- What the Indian Achievers Award Taught Me About Building4 min read
- The Reality Behind Overnight Success4 min read
- Why I Build5 min read
- The Joy of Growing Something From Scratch4 min read
- The First International Client4 min read
- Founder Lessons From the Frontline4 min read
- Building Through Uncertainty3 min read
Section
Philosophy
On learning, identity, perspective, and the examined life.
- Healthspan vs Lifespan4 min read
- Active Waiting4 min read
- What Was I Wrong About?4 min read
- What I Believe — Core Worldview6 min read
- How I Think About Learning5 min read
- How I Think About Systems5 min read
- How I Think About People5 min read
- Books That Changed My Thinking5 min read
- Questions I Keep Returning To5 min read
- On Identity and Where You Come From6 min read
- On Success: What It Actually Means5 min read
- Learning From People5 min read
- What Changed My Mind This Year?4 min read
- What Am I Learning?4 min read
- Tourism as an Economic Engine3 min read
- The Evolution of My Thinking4 min read
- People Are More Similar Than Different3 min read
- One Year Later4 min read
- Midnight Calls and Invisible Sacrifices3 min read
- Long-Term Thinking in a Short-Term World3 min read
- Have They Done This Before?3 min read
- Contentment vs. Success3 min read
Section
Hiring
Why executive hiring fails, what better looks like, and the infrastructure that fixes it.
- Broken Hiring Systems and the Opportunity Gap6 min read
- VP of Product Search5 min read
- VP of Sales Search5 min read
- CMO Search4 min read
- CFO Search4 min read
- CTO Recruitment in India4 min read
- SaaS CTO Search4 min read
- CTO Search4 min read
- Fintech CTO Recruitment4 min read
- CEO Search5 min read
- Remote CTO Hiring4 min read
- Chief of Staff Search3 min read
- Web3 Leadership Search4 min read
- The 50-Day Executive Search4 min read
- How to Write an Executive Role Brief4 min read
- VP of Engineering India5 min read
- How Executive Search Actually Works5 min read
- Why Executive Searches Fail5 min read
- VP of Engineering Search4 min read
- What Makes a Great Executive Brief5 min read
- How to Evaluate Executive Candidates5 min read
- The Difference Between Retained and Contingency Search4 min read
- What to Expect From an Executive Search Partner5 min read
- Executive Search for Sales & Account Management Leaders3 min read
- Is AI Replacing Executive Recruiters?4 min read
- How Long Does an Executive Search Take?4 min read
- What Does Executive Search Cost?4 min read
- How Do You Find a CTO in India?4 min read
- What Is Retained Executive Search?4 min read
- Executive Search for GTM Leaders3 min read
- Remote Executive Search3 min read
- Executive Search in Strategy Consulting3 min read
- Executive Search in Web33 min read
- Executive Search in Dubai3 min read
- Executive Search in SaaS3 min read
- Executive Search in Singapore3 min read
- Executive Search in Fintech3 min read
- Executive Search in the UK3 min read
- Why Your VP Search Stalled at Week 104 min read
- What $3,280/Month in Recruiting Tools Actually Costs You4 min read
- The Four Ways Hiring Infrastructure Fails5 min read
- 41 Days. $275K Search. Two Firms Failed.4 min read
- Executive Search in India3 min read
- Executive Search in the USA3 min read
- Why Hiring Is Becoming Infrastructure3 min read
- Why Executive Hires Fail4 min read
- On Being Named a World Staffing Leader4 min read
- The Rise of Hiring System Health3 min read
- The Future Belongs to Operational Intelligence3 min read
- The Cost of Hiring the Wrong Leader3 min read
- Intelligence Hiring vs. Traditional Hiring4 min read
- Gen AI Won't Replace Recruiters3 min read
- The Future of Executive Search4 min read
Section
Frameworks
Mental models for thinking about opportunity, hiring, and human potential.
- Geography Advantage Framework™6 min read
- First-Generation Founder Framework™7 min read
- Talent Signal Framework™7 min read
- Hiring SLO Framework™7 min read
- Compounding Failure Loop™7 min read
- Failure Prediction System™7 min read
- Mandate Recovery Framework™6 min read
- Opportunity Mobility Framework™6 min read
- Hiring System Health™6 min read
- Intelligence Hiring System™7 min read
- Opportunity Framework™6 min read