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Echoes of Deception: When Every Secret Looks Like a MotiveA murder mystery becomes difficult when the suspect list is small.It becomes much more interesting when almost everyone has a reason to lie.That is what caught my attention in Dinesh Arya's Echoes of Deception.Helen Rodrigues, a controversial corporate executive, is found dead at a company retreat. Senior Inspector Pratap Rao Singh takes ov...
I have been thinking about Tuesdays.Not Mondays.Not launch days.Not the day a company announces funding.Tuesdays.The ordinary days when nobody is particularly interested in what a business is doing.Someone places an order.Someone complains.Someone sends an invoice.Someone looks at the bank balance.Someone decides whether to spend money or wait.Someone notices that customers are not using the produ...
There is a subtle shift happening in organisations.We are moving from using AI to do things towards using AI to tell us what to do.That second shift is much more consequential.A machine that drafts a report is one thing.A machine that identifies a project risk, recommends a resource allocation, forecasts an outcome or suggests a course of action is something else entirely.That is where Danilo Arba...
“pp” might be the most common short form on Instagram. It means “price please”. Customers comment pp on posts and expect all the details in their inbox. I was unaware of pp.“Can you share your catalog? We can import it into Querygen.”, I asked my customer.The customer opened their Instagram page. That was the catalog. Every new product was posted as a reel there. Customers were commenting, sending...
Why does a young woman avoid buying a personal product from the family grocer?Why can a Sunday breakfast table in an Indian home look like a tour of the world?And why can a retailer with a deceptively simple business model understand Indian consumers better than companies with far larger resources?These questions are more interesting than they first appear because they point to something businesse...
Why do intelligent people make simple problems complicated?Sometimes because the problem really is complicated.But sometimes because complexity makes us feel that we are doing serious thinking.That distinction stayed with me while reading Mukesh Sud’s Simple Thinking. The book begins with an idea that sounds almost obvious: when we are surrounded by information, opinions and noise, finding a simpl...
Why do organisations find it so easy to add something — and so difficult to remove it?A new process is introduced. A new layer of approval appears. Another product enters the portfolio. Another report is added to the calendar. A system that nobody particularly likes continues to exist because “this is how we have always done it.”And slowly, almost invisibly, complexity becomes normal.That was the ...
Many books about success promise transformation. Brian Tracy’s Million Dollar Habits makes a quieter promise: transformation begins long before results appear, hidden inside ordinary routines that most people never think twice about. It is less interested in dramatic breakthroughs than in the small decisions that eventually become identity.Tracy has spent decades writing about achievement, and rea...
IndexHow I built Querygen.aiIntroductionQuerygenThe Hero of this story - ToolThis hero does a lot of heavy lifting. It is a superhero.ArchitectureBuilding a resilient system (aka Reality)⭐️ Have strong contracts between the stages of the pipeline⭐️ Manage Concurrency & Race Conditions⭐️ Make everything auditable and replayable.Charu Constructions uses Querygen to manage their fleet operations.Less...
