https://sreebalakrishnan.in/inklings/ Short notes from the seam where dharma meets delivery — AI, leadership, and what building teaches. en Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:30:00 GMT https://sreebalakrishnan.in/inklings/2026-06-08-when-ai-builds-itself.html https://sreebalakrishnan.in/inklings/2026-06-08-when-ai-builds-itself.html Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:30:00 GMT Anthropic says Claude now writes more than 80% of its own code, and calls the next step by its name — recursive self-improvement. I'd felt the shape of this in my own work for months without a word for it. https://sreebalakrishnan.in/inklings/2026-06-03-the-skills-no-one-taught-me.html https://sreebalakrishnan.in/inklings/2026-06-03-the-skills-no-one-taught-me.html Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:30:00 GMT Daniel Pink lists sixteen skills every functional adult should know. I watched it as a leader of people — and the list of how to be a grown-up turned out to be almost the same list as how to lead. Nobody taught me either. https://sreebalakrishnan.in/inklings/2026-06-01-when-no-one-is-watching.html https://sreebalakrishnan.in/inklings/2026-06-01-when-no-one-is-watching.html Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:30:00 GMT The world rewards being the best when everyone is watching. Yogi wisdom asks the opposite — can you be number one when the only person watching is you? https://sreebalakrishnan.in/inklings/2026-06-01-learning-to-nurture.html https://sreebalakrishnan.in/inklings/2026-06-01-learning-to-nurture.html Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:30:00 GMT My default is action — get it done, reward the doing. Sitting with a quieter dimension inspired by Chandra, the moon, and taught by my sister: how do I become a better nurturer, of myself and the people around me? https://sreebalakrishnan.in/inklings/2026-05-27-airbnb-google-banter.html https://sreebalakrishnan.in/inklings/2026-05-27-airbnb-google-banter.html Wed, 27 May 2026 00:30:00 GMT An Airbnb PM writes a love letter to Google Chrome PMs about all-blue tab icons. A Google PM replies with the perfect comeback. Two brands helping each other in public, with grace. https://sreebalakrishnan.in/inklings/2026-05-24-words-better-than-silence.html https://sreebalakrishnan.in/inklings/2026-05-24-words-better-than-silence.html Sun, 24 May 2026 00:30:00 GMT Speak only when you feel that your words are better than your silence. https://sreebalakrishnan.in/inklings/2026-05-24-problems-or-potential.html https://sreebalakrishnan.in/inklings/2026-05-24-problems-or-potential.html Sun, 24 May 2026 00:30:00 GMT When I look at myself — or at someone else — am I seeing a bundle of problems, or am I seeing potential? Naming the shadow, and asking whether the other lens can be practised. https://sreebalakrishnan.in/inklings/2026-05-22-the-mca-question.html https://sreebalakrishnan.in/inklings/2026-05-22-the-mca-question.html Fri, 22 May 2026 00:30:00 GMT A family, six lakh rupees, and an MCA decision I can't yet give. My instinct, the question I put to my network, and the advice converging from what came back. https://sreebalakrishnan.in/inklings/2026-05-22-layers-and-compounding.html https://sreebalakrishnan.in/inklings/2026-05-22-layers-and-compounding.html Fri, 22 May 2026 00:30:00 GMT My mentor Vikram said we learn in layers. Venky talks about the power of compounding. Watching Claude connect the small tools I built over many years, I'm finally learning both — through AI system architecture. https://sreebalakrishnan.in/inklings/2026-05-21-thought-to-execution.html https://sreebalakrishnan.in/inklings/2026-05-21-thought-to-execution.html Thu, 21 May 2026 00:30:00 GMT As I think about AI, it's not about tools or process. As a leader, my thought to execution speed is now in minutes and hours, not weeks or months. That's the real shift IMO. https://sreebalakrishnan.in/inklings/2026-05-20-story-before-the-number.html https://sreebalakrishnan.in/inklings/2026-05-20-story-before-the-number.html Wed, 20 May 2026 00:30:00 GMT Playing a founder in a senior compensation conversation taught me something: operational stability is table stakes. The hook was never the salary. It was the story. https://sreebalakrishnan.in/inklings/2026-05-20-pelican.html https://sreebalakrishnan.in/inklings/2026-05-20-pelican.html Wed, 20 May 2026 00:30:00 GMT Peliqan is not another connector. It's the operational data layer that sits between your AI and your live business systems. I'm trying to understand what that actually means.