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CTO • Coach • Podcast host • Homeschooling dad
Learning how to build gravitas.
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Digitize all papers. Just xerox all of them before destroying.
History has a way of repeating. Including all "digital transformation" stories
What's your take on this step by Amazon?
What role does your wife play in homeschooling?
Since I write and speak about it, there’s an illusion that she doesn’t play any role.
She plays three key roles:
• Supporter
• Teacher
• Operational manager
I wrote about this: https://www.jjude.com/books/hs/wife-part/
Do you have any questions?
McKinsey’s AI platform got hacked—proof architecture matters.
> LLMs sitting on top of databases filled with sensitive internal knowledge, protected by application-layer controls that were never designed to withstand autonomous attackers.
https://codewall.ai/blog/how-we-hacked-mckinseys-ai-platform
I wanted to buy commercial property in Hosur.
I was told dont buy if you don’t have political connections.
They won’t let you buy
They won’t let you rent
Apparently same case in Blr & Chennai.
Is this true?
The hardest part of homeschooling?
Not curriculum
Not schedules
Not disciplining
It is social pressure
Relatives
Colleagues
Friends
So many questions, you wonder if you’ll ever get through.
Walking a pathless path is not easy.
Wrote abt it here: https://www.jjude.com/books/hs/hardest-part/
Wisdom is always wanting the same thing, always rejecting the same thing.
~Seneca, Letters on Ethics
Business model innovation of the current times: pass the gas bill on to customers.
Once this is set, it won’t go back. Be ready to see more “innovation” like this.
Learning about Greek poets from a Chinese historian wasn’t something I expected in 2026. But it’s interesting—go watch.
We’ve been homeschooling our children for several years now.
Not as an ideology. Mostly as a series of small experiments.
Some worked. Some didn’t.
I’ve started writing a book about what we tried and what we learned along the way.
Read it here: https://www.jjude.com/books/hs/
