Comics Today: A Promising New Beginning

 

Aayush Kumar has started a unique initiative (magazine) called Comics Today, focused on news and updates from both Indian and international comics. The first issue was released at the end of 2025, and I’m happy to have made a small contribution to it as well. Wishing many more such efforts in the future. Congratulations to Aayush and the entire team!

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When Businesses Optimize Themselves Into Distrust (Article)

I recently wrote an article diving deep into this topic. You can read the full piece here:

Beyond the Metric: The Hidden Cost of Short-Term Corporate Thinking

What if your best cost-cutting decision is quietly damaging your company’s future?

Modern businesses focus heavily on visible metrics like revenue, clicks, and quarterly targets. But spreadsheets cannot measure trust, loyalty, creator goodwill, or brand memory.

When projects are abruptly shut down to improve short-term numbers, the damage spreads silently.

Freelancers stop seeing the company as a long-term partner. Emotional investment fades, quality drops, and top talent becomes hesitant.

Users notice these patterns too. Over time, they stop emotionally investing in new products and trust begins to weaken.

The biggest problem is that some savings only delay a much larger future cost.

Data is important, but it is only a compass, not the entire landscape. Some investments work like seeds. They take time to grow, but eventually shape long-term loyalty, reach, and sustainability.

A company’s real strength is not just in its immediate numbers. It is in how confidently people invest their time, creativity, and trust into its ecosystem.

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If everything is a P0, nothing is (Article)

 

Article - The P0 Paradox: If Everything is a Fire, No One Has a Hose.

We’ve traded “Urgent” subject lines for “Critical” Slack tags, but the noise hasn’t stopped, it’s just changed its vocabulary. I wrote about The P0 Paradox: how we’ve started treating managerial convenience like a business-critical emergency, and the 'urgency tax' it’s costing our productivity and mental health. It’s time we stop inflating the labels and start respecting the work.

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Why So Many Companies Start Looking the Same

New Article, theme - When Optimization Starts Killing Identity

In many industries, companies that once stood out for their unique culture and quality slowly begin to look identical to their competitors. As management strategies become increasingly focused on optimization, aggressive scaling, and cost-cutting, the very people contributing exceptional work often become treated as replaceable resources. The result is subtle but damaging. Brand identity weakens, trust declines, and creative distinction fades into predictable sameness. The bigger question businesses should ask is not just how efficiently they are growing, but whether they are preserving what made them valuable in the first place.

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