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Wk 30-26 – Weekly Note

Notes and updates from Week 30.

26 July 2026.
Back home.
At Seema’s Starbucks.
Was away for about 15 days. Large part of it was in Colombo. And now that am back, am trying to not go anywhere for the next 30 days. Lets see how it goes.

So, I am in that funk right now.
Whats the utility of writing this. No one reads this. AI creates lot of slop. Even I dont do as much mehnat as I must while I write things. And the primary reason for writing this is to get gunk out of my head. That’s happening anyway cos I journal a lot and take notes and talk it out. And of course I am forgetful, so that helps.

So that.
Lets start writing and see where it takes us.

Oh, I almost forgot. The track of the week is this. This version is ever better. You decide.

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Highlights, reflections, updates, notes and thoughts from the week gone by.

1/ The monthly “focus”

I started this last month on where I would talk about what I want to do in the upcoming month.

In the months of Jun and Jul, I had decided to work on these…

  1. Revenue from Claude
  2. 66MGRoad
  3. Fix CA for C4E
  4. Distribution
  5. Caravan Serai
  6. 56 Hours
  7. Lean onto Claude to run my life
  8. Worldly problem
  9. Poker
  10. Public Speaking
  11. Fitness
  12. Fix 25

This must look like a long list but I can put them into three clusters only – work, play and health. The first four are work, next six are play and last two are health. And each feeds into another.

Even though these are clusters, I do think that I need to trim these. Thanks to friends and special thanks to Pradeep (he told me today morning that my “top three” things have four things in it), I will try to reduce these.

So, in the month of August, I plan to work on just one thing in each bucket. Here they are…

Work – 66MGRoad

Play – AI tools and all that

Health – Keto Diet for a month. Starting today. Ok, tomorrow please. I feel like Thepla and all that today : D

So, that.

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2/ CJP

Cockroaches have run wild and they brought the change they were seeking! Wow!

So, I need to admit something. All my life, I’ve never been in support of dharnas, blockages, strikes and all that. In fact, I would argue (in close quarters of course) that these do more harm than good. And I’ve never overtly supported any public movement. Not because I dont want to. But because of two things.

a/ I dont have the balls. Simple.

b/ I am not informed enough to take a stand. And this is true not just for protests or any political conversations but for everything that needs deep thinking. I operate at the surface. I hide behind my articulate ass and skirt the real issue. Plus, it was never gonna impact me anyway – I am male, old, self-employed and all that. And each time I was asked by people, I would make a “wise” comment about my being apolitical and move on.

However, CJP and the movement has shown what it means to have a spine. Young people decided on something and they came out in numbers and they showed what it meant to have spine. I know there are conversations about the movement having bad actors, influence from deep state, hidden agendas and I dont know what all. But, the fact of the matter remains that The Minister of Education had to put in his papers. If this is not change and impact. I dont know what is.

And I must learn.

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3/ Colombo. And home.

Like I said in the beginning, I was in Colombo for a few days.

I must admit that I quite liked my time there. I even made a new friend, who I hope to stay in touch with. In fact, I told SO that we must live in Colombo / Sri Lanka for an extended period. I dont know when I’d be able to do that but it’s definitely on the cards (as long as I dont forget).

Colombo gave me everything that I wanted. Coffee shop (they dont have Starbucks, there’s Barista and Java Lounge), nice people, India-like cost of living, safety (at least the parts I was in, I didn’t feel unsafe), India timzone, modern conveniences (nots just supermarkets but they also have PickMe, an Uber like services that delivers people and restaurant orders alike) and good food. The only complaint I have is shitty internet. I am assuming that will get fixed with time.

Oh, I took my parents as well, to get to the Hindu trail. Wrote about it here, specifically from the lens of making an itinerary for old parents. Should you choose to go there with your parents, please do ask me.

The Ramayana Trail in Sri Lanka, Planned for Old Parents

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4/ ADHD

I self-administered an online ADHD assessment. And guess what was the outcome.

I am taking a human proctored one in the next week.

Once I get the results, I will have proven beyond doubt that my inability to focus on one thing is as medical condition. No, I dont plan to take meds. I will find a way to solve for things without that.

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5/ Survival for another month

Thanks to an unplanned project, we survive yet another month!

Which is good and bad.

Good – that we survived.

Bad – that I am stuck in this survival mode for years now. 20 years to be precise. I dont know how to get out of this. And I have tried everything including a lot of self-imposed, self-love. And even though I believe I am smart, I am still poor. This is a genuine, from the depth of my heart question that I really need an answer on.

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6/ Claude

How can I write my weekly note and not talk about Claude?

Even though I was away, I did some Clauding. And the list of chats and projects is getting longer. And the amount of revenue I’ve made remains 0. But one thing has moved and I am probably not giving it enough weight. I’ve acquired three projects to help businesses get more efficient with Claude.

Here’s a list.

  1. I am helping a finance company optimise their speed to market and enable the sales team to focus only on sales and give up all the reporting, updating etc etc to a custom built tool.
  2. I am working with a manufacturing company that has plants across the country to save the time of their accounting department by building tools to reconcile things faster.
  3. I am helping a corporate gifting company do better by building a CRM tool purpose built for them and for their use case.

All these are pilots and if these work well, I’d try to convert these into a service layers. Oh, and apart from this, I’ve made a personal CRM tool (for other superconnectors as well), a task manager, an accountant and more for myself. I hope to build these into standalone products and offer them for sales.

So, I may very well be able to pivot into an AI-enabled transformation service provider. I just need to get sure of the outcome before I make it commercial. And I need to figure that it’s a large enough opportunity. I could be a McKinsey 2.0 for SMEs and traditional businesses!

Here’s a request – in case you have a problem that you’d like to be automated with the help of AI, please do let me know. I will not charge you anything. Really.

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📷 Photos from the week gone by

Since I was in Colombo, I did take a lot of photos. And as always, available on request. Lemme know if you want those.

Here’s a teaser…

📈 Trackers…

No trackers for this update. I didnt capture data TBH. Hoping to get back to this from this week on.

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✅ Action on LARGE objectives for the year

In this section, I capture progress on the large objectives for the year. Going forward. I will also add monthly priorities. I suspect, if I keep going like this, I will end up with an OKR system of my own.

In 2026, I plan to do the following three things…

  1. Book2
  2. Human Flag Pole
  3. Save a million dollars

Book2 / Caravan Serai.
Book 2, draft 1 is done. I had finished it before I went to Colombo. But I am not confident enough to unleash it in the world. I will work on it in Jul-Aug and get it ready.

Human Flag Pole.
No action.

Save a million dollars.
No action worth reporting. I am just grateful that I survived this month.

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📌  So, what did I get done last few weeks? And what will I do next week?

A one-line report on things I got done. Shipped. Not WIP.

Health.
Sleep, food, movement.
Nothing to be honest. Travel screwed this. Need to find a way to keep consistent on these things while I travel.

C4E / Work.
Regular things. Nothing large to report.

Brand SG / Distribution.
No action. We did release a few videos. See them here.

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People.
Spoke to some friends. Talked to some contacts. Used my CRM tool to reignite some connections. Love that!

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🏃‍➡️ Health

Nothing large to report.
Status quo.

Trying to self -administer some meds and supplements and all that. I am still unable to find a way to work out. I’ve tried almost all shapes and sizes of inspiration and motivation and all that to get to learn. But I havent been able to 🙁

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⏲️ Reminders from last few days

Same as the last few weeks. Parking this section.

The only saving grace is that I’ve built myself a tool on Claude that helps me not lose track of things. At some point in time, I want to build public showcases of these tools to help people become better.

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🗓️ So, one thing that defines the past week?

Getting back.

The other words for this year have been: Freedom, People, Motion, Show, Flow, Excitement, Embarrassment, Blur, Whiling, Movement, Activity, Regular, Easy, Journey, Downtime, Same, Drift.

So that.
Over and out.
Until next Friday.
SG

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, 22, 23, 24, 25 (missed), 26, 27, 28, 29 (missed these three).

PPS: Please do point typos.

PPPS: In case you see me being inconsistent in anything – work, writing, reviews etc, PLEASE do point out.

PPPPS: This wasnt the best weekly update but I really had nothing else to write. Hopefully, ill have something large to report from the next week on.

Wk 13-25 – Weekly Notes

Notes and thoughts from Week 13, 2025

Morning!
At this time, its 9:05 AM and I am waiting for AK to finish reading highagency.com. And then she and I will record the next episode of Adulting Podcast. And then I have a bunch of things to do and then I have a lunch with Paras. And then I have some work. And I will find time in between all these to write this piece.

So, with that, let’s go!

🈺 The LARGE objective from the week gone by? And the next week!

I was to work on the 2025 plan and Book 2.

Like last week, I didnt make any progress on either. I do have a few reasons and excuses on why I couldnt. I will not get into those. I will acknowledge that I didnt work. And I will try and do better in the coming week. So that.

Moving on…

☑️ What did I get done this week?

I will give a one-line report on things I got done on various things that are important to me. I will only talk about things that I got done. Shipped. Not WIP.

At this point, the following things are important to me (I know too many but…) and these are IN ORDER.

  1. Health
  2. Meru
  3. C4E
  4. Brand SG
  5. People (Family, Friends, Strangers, etc)
  6. Book2
  7. Shauk (Music, Films, Poker etc)

Health. I want to do 4 things here – eat better, sleep better, work on my muscles and generally by happy. In the week gone by, I did nothing. So -1 there.

Meru. A lot of action here. I cant talk about a lot of this. I even wore shoes 2 days in the week gone by! So yeah! But despite the action, am far from getting to the ideal state. So, I will give myself a 0.

C4E. Again, like Meru, I did a lot but nothing to show for. Luckily, Chandni is doing the heavy lifting on the revenue and everyone else is supporting her. On Labs, AK (and increasingly KP) are keeping the movement. I will give myself a 0.

Brand SG. I got a few emails as a result of work I had done in the previous weeks. So that was good. However I didnt take any action on it. So, a -1.

People. Did a few things. Got Bri some gifts. She knows about one. Doesnt know about the other. Plus, like last week, met a few people. Nothing large of consequence. So, a 0.

Book 2. No action. -1.

Shauk. No large action. Did catch the sunset. And thus, a 0.

So the overall score is -3 for this week. Same as last week.
Trends from the previous weeks: -3, -2, -1
The max I can get is 7 in a week. Let’s see when I get to it.

📊 The tracker from the last week

Here’s the tracker.

What do you notice?

For me, the highlights are…

  1. I’ve missed my daily twitter review. I need to try harder.
  2. I didn’t track money for a few days. This is largely because I had relatives over and with them I was loose with money.
  3. Sleep and recovery has largely been ok. I need to get more consistent though.
  4. I added a few rows (journals, OMAD etc). I plan to track those.

That’s it I think.

📷 Some Photos from the week gone by

Here are some photos from the week gone by.

Absolutely love some of these.
Do you want to guess which one?
Ping me on X.

📖 Interesting Reads from the last week

I bookmarked a lot. But I havent read a lot.
Nonetheless, I will capture those here.
At some time, I will have someone post these on larger platforms as well.

  1. What to do. By Paul Graham.
  2. This mile long essay on High Agency by George Mack. This is one of the most important pieces you will ever read.
  3. This essay from Anand never goes old. Do read it.
  4. Companionship Content by Anu Atluru. I love each thing she writes.
  5. Assorted links on how to get rich (thanks to AK for the prompt)
  6. Recurse Manual – This could actually be the future of SoG. And while you are at it, do read Late Checkout Story, Values at Bending Spoons, the Tiny Story, Lossfunk and other venture studios #currentThings
  7. Pradeep’s Note Taking Dilemma – here
  8. Made this list of tools I use – here
  9. Finshots on Ozempic in India – here
  10. Had to read about Frank Slootman but I did not.
  11. The Turner Diaries. Here.
  12. Gautam on how to capitalise a services compnay and reward people.

💭 Highlights, reflections and notes from the week.

Here are some from this week.

A/ AI
Faceless channel, content, code, design, creative services and dunno what all. A lot is on my mind, especially that one of my children is directly impacted by this. I will probably write a longer note some day. For the time being, AI remains at the top of my head. So that.

A.1/ Studio Ghibli
I hve to talk about this. I may not have an eloquent answer but for the first time in my life, since the AI revolution happened about us, I am feeling cheated. Enough said. May be I will do a solocast on this.

I also wrote this on my daily note on the 27th March…

The entire internet has gone bonkers over it. And I think it’s not a good thing. No, I am not resisting change. I am in-fact all for change. But I felt sad that the insane effort that all these artists at Ghibli put in to build art is now a commodity. On the internet, it will be a passing fad – people will make photos, try to look “cute”, make films and I dont know what all. But in the process, we will forget the hardwork that the artists would have put in.

Of course you can compare that to the work of writers and painters and coders. And surprisingly, I was ok when those were “displaced”. So little conflicted on that.

Nothing has changed since I wrote that.

B/ Bhiwandi
On Tuesday, I went to Bhiwandi to see some warehouses. While I went to a few only, the visit was eye opening. The suprising efficiency with whch things were moving around was jaw-dropping. I have heard about those at CynLr, I’ve seen documentaries, I’ve experienced it (QC) but I saw the engine like a living and breathing thing for the first time.

I am not sure I am big fan of how that’s working but it’s incredible. Has to be a highlight of my week.

C/ Meri.health
I got this message on my WA group where a gent from the first batch of IIT Delhi (Ramesh Ji) wants to do a public health startup. And I am unable to help him (I have a lot going for me). I tried to find someone who can help them but I was unable to. My heart goes out. I wish I could help them.

In fact, if you are someone who can help these folks, I would love to connect and even volunteer for a bit with you.

D/ Attention Span
Multiple people have told me multiple conversations that I have ADHD and I need to do something about it. I will start with meditation.

On the beach today, I will not use my phone at all. And I will fix this. #currentThings

E/ Eco Mode
I am gonna live in the Eco Mode from 1 April. The only expenses I would make would be towards work and health. Nothing else. No more gifts, no more “quality of life” improvements, nothing else. The idea is to extend the runway for as long as I can.

F/ Rejection
A candidate rejected me at Meru.

Here’s some backstory. When I interview someone, my approach is to dissuade them from joining me. Some people try to show you the rosy picture and good things and all that. I try to show you the worst things and then, despite that, you are keen on working with me, I am all heart.

This person rejected me. And that was not cool. I felt bad. Need to not feel bad when such conversations happen. Oh, the funny thing is that I’ve been rejected by people in the past and each time that happened, I didnt really feed bad. This one felt personal and hurt more. Dunno why.

G/ Nails
My nails havent been clipped in a while. And I need to find a way to do that. I dont like them dirty and there isnt any time to do that. I may do it today.

H/ Travel
I had decided that this year I will travel less. That is already not happening. I am staring at an upcoming trip to Bangalore (for health) and a trip to Bangkok (to meet Vivek and kids). I want to not do either. But I will have to. So that.

I/ This tweet. And People.
I wrote this in fit of rage. I absolutely hate when my people dont trust me. I want to write more but I will leave at it. I will write on my Roam and in my ecochamber but its important to capture that my heart has been broken so bad that I dont know what to do about it. No, I am not ok. But dont ask me about it. I just want to pour things here and someday when (and if) I write a biopgraphy, purely to leave lessons for people, I will talk more on it.

J/ The Order
More about it is here. Saw this last night. Loved it. Oh, and the writer of The Order (Zach Baylin) is also the writer for King Richard!

I saw a film after a while and I totally loved it. I must find more films and see those.

K/ Started Journaling.
After I saw a tweet (it was by Namya Khan and I cant find the link (thanks to Pradeep for sharing the link)). And this has been inspired by Marcus Aurelius.

L/ Lucky Ali
He’s been dropping bangers one after another on his YT channel. See some here. so many emotions. Lemme make a list.

  1. Why am I not producing this? Why am I not after Rabbi Shergill to make documentary on his life?
  2. He’s aged and clearly unable to sing well. It’s not good to see him in pain. On the other side, its incredible to see him try so hard!
  3. Things like music never go old. One must create art, even in the day and age of AI

On, and staying on music, I cant stop seeing this by Maithali Thakur. May be have a dekho.

M/ Purpose
On C4E Village, the other day we were taling about purpose and while talking, happened to say something increbile (at least I think so). That the world is a mirror. If you are unhappy, the world would look unhappy to you. If you are happy, the world would look happy. I further said…

“…am 42, failure, but instead of that making me sore – it inspires me to do more. more than a 24 year old. and not to any end. but to burn. on both sides. in a way that meri aag ka tez, mera prakash at least mere aas paas ke logo ki duniya ko roshan kar de and unki raah me ek streetlight ban jaaye. raah pe chalna unka kaam hai, mera hai raah ko roshan karna”

And I said…

“we make meaning in life when we make meaning in other people’s lives. the most content, happy, people are the ones that are either reading Naval or doing charas or helping others.”

And finally, my advice was…

“bina apne matlab ki duniya ki madad karo, kaafi swad aaega”

N/ Naman hit a personal money milestone.
Super happy about it!
More on it on my echochamber

M/ Other things that I want to capture but I may not spill too many words…
Not too many things to be honest. I have actually covered most of those in the text above!

Phew that was a lot for the week.

🧠 Reminders from last week

I am adding this section. To capture things that I want to not forget. I will copy paste these week on week and track updates.

Here are things from the past weeks that I want to remember. And no, this may not be a comprehensive list. In categories.

  1. Health
    • Kitchen setup
    • Gym membership
  2. C4E
    • C4E Base
    • Design
    • Borderless agency / Upwork
  3. Shauk / Personal
    • Poker
    • Better dressed SG
    • Use of money / time
    • Love
    • Demand more from life

In case you know me, lemme know if I have missed something.

🥡 So, one thing that defines the past week?

Action.

In the previous weeks, it’s been Survive, Looking Up, Survival, Taste, Community, Respect, Money, People.

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Ok!
This is it for the week gone by. Late by a day. But it’s here. Yay!
Lemme know what you think.
See you around.

PS: This series of posts is inspired by Thej and his weekly notes. The previous editions are here: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09 (missed), 10, 11, 12

PPS: This week, thankfully, I maintained a note where I would keep dumping things that I want to capture in my weekly note. I loved being mindful about this habit. I will continue with it.