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The Accidental German Citizen
2–3 minutes10 Years, 8 Languages, and the Strategy of Good Enough! Ten years ago, Berlin was not on my bucket list. I didn’t arrive with romantic notions of European culture or a lifelong dream to become German. I moved here for a simple, pragmatic reason: a better salary. My motivation was transactional, and my expectations were… Read more
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Why AI Feels Like a Crisis, and Why It Isn’t
4–6 minutesThere’s a strange mix of excitement, skepticism, and quiet anxiety in the air right now. The AI world is moving fast. Too fast, if we’re being honest. Blink, and there’s a new model, a new agent, a new workflow everyone else seems to have already mastered. Keeping up feels less like learning and more like… Read more
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Sky Is the Limit: Kicking Off 2026 with 26x More Creativity
2–3 minutesHello, 2026. As promised, I am back. I’m writing this from my desk in Berlin, looking out at a true winter wonderland. It snowed over the weekend, and today the sun is shining brilliantly against the white landscape. It’s cold, extremely cold but I feel a warmth and rejuvenation that has nothing to do with… Read more
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Holiday Break: Signing Off for 2025
2–3 minutesAs we approach the end of the year, I’ve decided to take a holiday break and pause on writing for the rest of 2025. Before I sign off, I wanted to take a moment to look back on what has been a genuinely productive year and share a glimpse of what I’m tinkering with for… Read more
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Innovative Formats for Teaching System Design Concepts
1–2 minutesI am trying different formats to explain complex topics. For ex: how to make teaching and learning system design concepts fun! Yesterday, I posted a simple clickable prototype – Scaling from 0 to Millions: A Lemonade Stand Example. In today’s post, I used Google’s Veo to generate the following explainer video based on yesterday’s concept. More… Read more
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Scaling from 0 to Millions: A Lemonade Stand Example
1–2 minutesAn attempt to explain a system design concept – scaling from 0 to millions, like to a 10 year old. Imagine you start a lemonade stand in your driveway. At first, it’s just you. You have one table, one pitcher, and one box for money. When a kid comes by, you take their order, pour… Read more
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Princiya Sequeira 