CSChetan sinbuildstuff.hashnode.dev·Jun 17 · 6 min readYour first ten engineers are your culture. You can't patch it at fifty.Every company has a culture page. Free snacks, "we move fast," "we're like a family." Most of it is decoration. Your real culture isn't written down anywhere. It's whatever your first ten engineers do00
CSChetan sinblog.mirova.ai·Jun 15 · 6 min readBeyond the 167 HoursWe talk a lot about the 167 hours. One hour of therapy, and then a whole week of life the therapist never sees. It's a real gap, and it's worth naming. But after listening to enough therapists, I've s00
CSChetan sinblog.mirova.ai·May 19 · 7 min readQuiet progressA therapist I spoke with last month told me something that stuck. "I have a client who's been with me for eight months. I can feel that something has shifted. She can't. And that gap is starting to we00
CSChetan sinbuildstuff.hashnode.dev·May 3 · 9 min readYour Token Bill Is the Size of a Salary Now There's a graph I keep thinking about, and I don't have the exact data. But I can see its shape. I will take a stab drawing at it. Before AI, software companies spent most of their engineering budget 00
CSChetan sinbuildstuff.hashnode.dev·Apr 20 · 8 min readI Got Tired of Calorie Apps So I Built My Own in a TerminalI named it YACL - "Yet Another Calorie Logger". Because that's exactly what the world needed, right? Another calorie tracker. There are literally hundreds of them on the App Store. But hear me out. I'00
