31 May, 2026.
Sunday evening.
Starbucks. Versova.
20:35. Opene this draft. It was here when I opened my wordpress backend. Claude had saved it.
So like last week, this week too, I was a demo-walla again. A few new sit-downs, a couple of strategy calls, a book chapter plan locked for somebody else’s book. The last week also saw me a lot of things. I finished 56 Hours. I hate the way it has shaped. I attended a screenwriters meetup. I almost took a session where Nikunj and Chandni saved the day. And of there are misses. I will talk about those.
I had told myself that if I can get Caracan Seari done by end of May, I will reward myself with a trip to Singapore. That’s not happening clearly. More on it in a bit.
Oh, here’s the track of the week. Take Five. Read more about it here.
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Ok, lets go!
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Highlights, reflections, updates, notes and thoughts from the week gone by.
As always, in no order…
1/ The Ghostwriting Book. Edit 1 done.
The book am ghostwriting, I finished the first round of edits this week. Now we need to do the second round. Sat with my mentor on Thurday and finally pinned down the editorial spine of the book. His workspace is the central character. Adn around it, a distributed cast. The structural problem we’ve been chewing on for weeks dissolved in one sitting.
The next thing — chapter asks going out to all of these folks. I am guessing that by the end of June we would be talking to publishers.
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2/ 56 Hours. Done.
I had to submit to Satyanshu Singh’s Prayogshala. I managed to. Against all odds. You know, distractions and all. Also when I went to register it, my SWA didnt work. Luckily Copyright office did.
The thing is, I hate the shape it is in. It’s so raw that I am cringing at it. But as they say, if you are not embarrassed about your first output, you are too late. Now I will have to find the energy to sit though the next rounds.
A pattern has emerged. When I mark small steps to a deadline, things move. When I make it for the entire project, nothing moves. So that’s a good thing to know.
I have to mention that even if this doesnt get made into a film, I am eternally grateful to Boman sir, Harshit, Viraff, Shital and more. Gratitude.
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3/ Divya — after a long while
Divya dropped a weekly update on Tuesday and then I met her for dinner on Friday. Love her. I hope she’s reading this:D
While we talked, took a lot of notes. Here are some…
- Must use Claude for outreach and mailbox automation. Need to find a way to warm up multiple mailboxes and then run. The only thing is, I dont know what business.
- Divya told me that I must learn to sell something on Amazon. I will talk to Krishna and see what could that be.
- While talking to her, I realised that I could hire some young people to be EIRs and help me build businesses around all the things that am cooking with Claude.
- Must run SEO for C4E via Claude — separate workstream.
- Must also stop the temptation of replying each time someone asks me for marketing / communication things.
- Side note: I’ve written a piece on Death of C4E Village. Must find the courage to post it. Let’s see when.
Wow. A lot.
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4/ The Claude playground
Here’s what I used Claude for in the last week.
- A – built an Excel sheet for a friends pickleball brand. Took help from Sreemita. Took me an afternoon. Otherwise would’ve taken weeks.
- B – build an analyst report to show the prowess. Was unable to impress my friend with it. A fail.
- C – made this VC action tracker. Not sure what would I do about it.
- Shonit talked to me about the agency tool he’s building. Interesting use case of AI. Not sure what’s the underlying LLM there.
- Met Rohit. Loved seeing how young people are building things. He’s asked me to apply to South Park Commons. I’ve done that in the past and got rejected Lets’s see if he can get me in.
So that.
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5/ Pune!
Pune is on for next week. I am gonna meet AB (yay). And Krishna after a while (yay). And Himanshu for the first time (yay).
If you are in Pune between 2nd and 5th, please lemme know.
Have a tight agenda.
I like that travel is happening with a real reason and not as a way to escape Mumbai. Last few months I’ve done a couple of trips that were more “get out” than “go to”. This one’s a “go to”.
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6/ The capture system gave up on me. Or may I say, I gave up on!
An ugly admission. My capture system broke this week.
I realized that over the last month, I had hyper optimized Claude to capture and process every morsel of information. I had even installed gBrain and Karpathy’s system. But then I realised that I am wasting token with all these pulls. I want to now build a more robust and efficient system.
I could do today if I had to. But I want to leverage it more and discover more powers first. Especially in terms of actual business impact. Right now, the outcome is more from personal productivity gains. So, lets see when.
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7/ Update on the Caravan Serai
End of May was the deadline I gave myself for the first draft of Caravan Serai. Today is May 31. There’s no draft. The reward I’d promised myself — a trip to Singapore to meet M&m — is forfeit by my own rule.
I dont have too many excuses but I couldnt do it cos I had overestimated my ability to do things.
Maybe I will pick it in the month of June?
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8/ Other things worth noting
- Talked to a few more people about their job hunts. So far no solid conversion.
- Updated my Linkedin
- Chandni’s post talk about Ready Fire Aim
- Attended Screenwriting Corner‘s meetup and participated in a discussion around Death in the Gunj.
- Spoke to Viraff Patel on Harshit‘s recommendation. Quick chat. Will share more if it goes somewhere.
- This tweet saw some 10 inbounds and I realised that there are a lot of interesting people if you know where to find them. Thanks to Vatsal.
- I had decided to take a session on Claude and invited Nikunj by mistake. And oh man, did he save the day! Do yourself a favor. Become friends with him.
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📷 Photos from the week gone by
Same drill. DM me if you want photos.
Here’s one that I wanted to show off to the world.
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📈 Trackers…
Not updating this week.
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✅ Action on LARGE objectives for the year
In this section, I will capture my progress on large objectives for the year.
In 2026, I plan to do the following three things…
- Book2
- Human Flag Pole
- Save a million dollars
Book2 — Caravan Serai. End-of-May target — missed.
Human Flag Pole — no action.
Save a million dollars — no action.
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📌 So, what did I get done last few weeks? And what will I do next week?
This is a one-line report on progress I made on various things that are important to me. I will only talk about things that I got done. Shipped. Not WIP.
So, this year, I want to track the following…
- Health. Sleep, food, movement. Worse than the past week.
- C4E / Work. Pick a thing to apply myself to. Still no direction.
- Brand SG / Distribution. I was hoping that Claude session will help me. It did not.
- People. Met a few. Helped a few. I think I did ok on this. Need to build more.
- Book2 / Caravan Serai. Negative progress — missed the target.
- Shauk. Nothing tbh.
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🏃➡️ Health
No specific updates.
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⏲️ Reminders from last few days
Same as last week. Parking this section.
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🗓️ So, one thing that defines the past week?
Motion. No progress.
The other words for this year have been: Show, Flow, Excitement, Embarrassment, Blur, Whiling, Movement, Blur, Activity, Movement, Regular (again), Regular, Easy, Journey, Downtime, Flow, Show, Same.
The week that two consecutive words are Show and Same, it’s either the start of a trend or the end of a year. Lemme find out.
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So that.
Over and out.
Until next Friday.
Oh, and this too shall pass.
PS: This series of posts is inspired by Thej and his weekly notes. Previous editions from 2026 are: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 (missed these three), 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21
PPS: Please do point typos.
PPPS: In case you see me being inconsistent in anything – work, writing, reviews etc, PLEASE do point out.
PPPPS: Drafted by Claude on top of the week’s data — Roam dailies, Gmail, Calendar, Apple Notes — and edited by me. Tell me what reads true and what doesn’t.