Archive - Balancing Act

Plugged into the Matrix

Year-end notes, 2025

Dec 18 • Nikunj Kothari

Liar's Valuation

What early employees should know before signing

Dec 15 • Nikunj Kothari

Play Rigged Games

Survival favors the obsessed

Dec 11 • Nikunj Kothari

Get Your Hands Dirty

the mess is the point

Dec 8 • Nikunj Kothari

Borrowed credibility is debt

Dec 4 • Nikunj Kothari

Or risk losing it all

Dec 2 • Nikunj Kothari

November 2025

Claude Cooked Me

What happens when you ask it "ultrathink" across all your blog posts

Nov 18 • Nikunj Kothari

LFG and other lies we tell ourselves about fitting in

Nov 7 • Nikunj Kothari

How humans became training data with paychecks

Nov 4 • Nikunj Kothari

October 2025

Your Age Isn’t a Personality

Attention doesn’t compound. Retention does.

Oct 31 • Nikunj Kothari

Abundance mindset

You can't think your way there

Oct 27 • Nikunj Kothari

Surrender to Chaos

Why great startups don’t fit frameworks.

Oct 17 • Nikunj Kothari

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