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    <title>thinking out loud</title>
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    <subtitle>Product @ Okta | Developer Experience &amp; Tooling | Identity Platform Strategy</subtitle>
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        <title type="html"><![CDATA[your 404 page has a blind spot]]></title>
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        <updated>2026-03-15T11:18:43.602Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[48% of docs traffic is now AI agents. When they hit a 404, they don't see your cute illustration— they hallucinate.]]></summary>
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        <category label="developer tools" term="developer tools"/>
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        <category label="web infrastructure" term="web infrastructure"/>
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        <title type="html"><![CDATA[is your 'insight' just trivia?]]></title>
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        <updated>2026-01-04T15:55:35.250Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Insight often masks correlation as truth; true insights reveal mechanisms that drive decisions, not just patterns that sound smart.]]></summary>
        <category label="Product Management" term="Product Management"/>
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        <title type="html"><![CDATA[claude code's DX is too good. and that's a problem.]]></title>
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        <updated>2025-12-14T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Claude Code nails developer experience. But as capabilities grow, so does complexity. The best tools disappear - they don't become things you have to manage.]]></summary>
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        <category label="Tech" term="Tech"/>
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        <title type="html"><![CDATA[vercel vs cloudflare: two philosophies of building for developers]]></title>
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        <updated>2025-10-05T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Neutral observations on the Vercel vs Cloudflare race to win the edge and developer mindshare]]></summary>
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        <category label="DX" term="DX"/>
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        <title type="html"><![CDATA[why you shouldn't outsource your thinking to AI]]></title>
        <id>https://bharath.sh/writing/ai-thinking-trap</id>
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        <updated>2025-10-04T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[AI accelerates exeuction but outsourcing deep thinking erodes judgement and creativity]]></summary>
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        <category label="AI" term="AI"/>
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        <title type="html"><![CDATA[building at the edges]]></title>
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        <updated>2025-09-10T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Giants dominate the center of B2B markets, but the real opportunities for founders lie at the edges]]></summary>
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        <category label="Tech" term="Tech"/>
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        <title type="html"><![CDATA[borrowed happiness]]></title>
        <id>https://bharath.sh/writing/borrowed-happiness</id>
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        <updated>2025-07-28T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[why most of our goals aren't actually ours- and how social media tricks us into chasing other people's dreams instead of finding authentic happiness.]]></summary>
        <category label="life" term="life"/>
        <category label="happiness" term="happiness"/>
        <category label="philosophy" term="philosophy"/>
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        <title type="html"><![CDATA[product strategy trap]]></title>
        <id>https://bharath.sh/writing/product-strategy</id>
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        <updated>2025-06-25T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[most pms obsess over crafting perfect strategy docs when they should be building the foundation of real insights. true product strategy emerges from living in your users' reality, understanding competition and developing deep domain expertise.]]></summary>
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        <category label="product management" term="product management"/>
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        <title type="html"><![CDATA[MCP anti-pattern]]></title>
        <id>https://bharath.sh/writing/mcp</id>
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        <updated>2025-05-29T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Most MCP servers are just glorified API wrappers that miss the point entirely. The real value lies in encoding workflows and domain expertise, not exposing raw endpoints to AI assistants.]]></summary>
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        <category label="AI" term="AI"/>
        <category label="Product Management" term="Product Management"/>
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        <title type="html"><![CDATA[f1 strategists can teach you to make better product decisions]]></title>
        <id>https://bharath.sh/writing/product-pitwall</id>
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        <updated>2025-05-18T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Apply F1 strategy principles(scenario planning, action windows, strategic flexibility) in the world product management. Discover frameworks to make high-quality decisions under uncertainty.]]></summary>
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        <category label="Product Leadership" term="Product Leadership"/>
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