We have been homeschooling our kids. Homeschooling in India is not that widespread. So when a national newspaper covered our experiment, I got lot of questions around what we were doing. For a while I wrote blog posts answering them.
Now I've written quite a few posts (and given talks), I thought of writing a book. Just wrote two chapters. The draft lives here: https://www.jjude.com/books/hs/
> Mine runs my auto parts company.. tracks 395K products on Amazon, manages 3 warehouses, scrapes competitor pricing, handles email, posts to social media
> Fortunately, I do. My OpenClaw agent keeps a personal friends CRM and reminds me to actively maintain my friendships using a weekly CRON, it event suggest what to write/plan/talk abou
Planing depends on deterministic view of the future. I used to plan (esp annual plans) until about 5 years. Now I scan for trends and prepare myself for different scenarios that can come in the future. Even if you get it approximately right, you stand apart.
For tech trends, I read Simon, Benedict Evans, Mary Meeker etc. Simon is in a better position make these predictions than anyone else having closely analyzed these trends over the last few years.
I am a software engineer and I have trained to think logically and structurally. In that processes, I have lost "taste". I don't have any design (user facing) capability. I bet in the near future, developing apps and hosting will become so easy that we will soon see "substack for apps" [1].
If I'm right, the thing that will set me still apart (I'm currently a CTO with 30 years of experience) will be taste and not engineering. Or putting it differently, taste + engineering will set me apart than just engineering.
I don't know what that will look like yet. But that is what I want to learn in 2026.
Now I've written quite a few posts (and given talks), I thought of writing a book. Just wrote two chapters. The draft lives here: https://www.jjude.com/books/hs/
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