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Things we've written down.

Essays, recaps from events, field notes from cities we've visited, and the occasional long interview. We publish when we have something to say.

Featured · Recap

Build with Chainlink · workshop notes

A practical evening on data feeds, broken assumptions, and the tiny details that decide whether integrations survive production.

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Chainlink 101 · what landed

An intro session that worked because people asked hard questions early.

01 Mar 20261 min

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Mastering CCIP · recap

Interoperability sounds simple in slides and very different in implementation.

03 Nov 20251 min

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Life After Web2 · campus room notes

A candid conversation on switching tracks without pretending the trade-offs don't exist.

06 Sept 20251 min

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Trends in tech with Akash · recap

A useful distinction between signal, noise, and things that are only loud on social media.

24 Aug 20251 min

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Cognition with Akash · what stayed with us

A high-context room about execution, judgment, and what to ignore.

29 Jul 20251 min

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Cognition Season 1 · closing notes

What changed across the season, and what we'll carry into the next one.

30 Jul 20251 min

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Akash Accelerate watch party · India recap

A shared stream turned into a very real room conversation.

25 Jun 20251 min

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ACE: AI Community Era · recap

A room full of builders trying to separate AI theater from actual work.

26 May 20251 min

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THE ACE '24 · one year later

What the biggest room we hosted taught us about community at scale.

03 Sept 20241 min

Essay

The myth of the startup city

Why we stopped believing that Indian tech needed a single capital - and what we found when we looked beyond it.

30 Apr 20262 min

Essay

Why we built this

A short letter from the people behind LocalNetwork.

14 Feb 20261 min