The other evening, I was talking to my daughter. She excitedly showed me a presentation she had built using Claude. A few minutes later, she was telling me about the exploratory work she’d been doing with Gemini. I loved what she had put together. Then I asked her a few questions. “Why did you choose this approach?” “Why do you trust this response more than the other one?” “How would you know if it was wrong?” The interesting part wasn’t the presentation. It was the conversat

Give a man bread and you feed him for a day. Teach him to make his own bread and you feed him for a lifetime. I’ve always liked the simplicity of this thought. To me, the real essence of leadership is not to make people dependent on us, but to build their confidence and capability to the point where they don't need us for every answer. I’ve always believed that a good test of leadership is what happens when you are not in the room. Can the team make the decision? Can they sol

We are getting very good at teaching AI what we know. But are we getting equally good at making sure the organization learns from it? That distinction is becoming more important as AI moves deeper into our engineering teams, products and everyday work. We are not just asking AI to write code, analyze data or automate tasks anymore. We are allowing it into the places where years of experience and organizational knowledge shape how decisions are made. Organizations don't just r

Maybe the best leaders aren't the ones who can see the future most clearly. They are the ones who can lead when the future isn't clear at all. The larger and more complex an organisation becomes, the less important it is for the leader to have all the answers. What matters is having people around you who see things differently, who are comfortable disagreeing, and who will tell you when you are wrong. I’ve learned this over time. Earlier in my career, I was usually closest to

Over the last few years, technology has moved fast. AI, automation, tools, the execution today looks very different from what it did even 2–3 years back. But the way many organisations are structured hasn’t changed at the same pace. A lot of the actual work is now happening at the edges with engineers, analysts, teams using these tools every day. But the decisions on what gets built, what matters, and where we invest are still sitting with leadership layers that don’t always

Early in my career, building software involved spending more time working through systems, writing logic, and progressing step by step. Over time, we drifted towards optimizing for syntax, semantics and speed. In service based orgs, interviews, learning paths, and day-to-day work became centered around languages, frameworks, and keeping up with what’s new across ecosystems like Angular and JavaScript. Somewhere along the way, critical thinking started taking a back seat. Now,