back to building

For about 8-9 years, I was a product manager.. I loved it, genuinely. The role fit me well, and I think I was good at it.

But something kept nagging at me.. So yeah, basically in 2015 I got super busy with product management. I was upskilling myself there, trying to get good at user research, and I couldn’t focus on hands-on keyboard for code.

Whenever I wanted to explore technology, for example, I started looking into the backend, creating custom components or modules on top of Spartacus, which is like a commerce engine. And then suddenly Vue.js started hyping up, so it just got hard to keep up with the tech stack, and tough to do code and POCs. It wasn’t that I couldn’t learn it again, I just couldn’t get myself to break the ice..

Then agentic IDEs happened.. !!

So VSCode with Cline and LM Studio basically got me to actually open a terminal again, and then Cursor made it less painful. And then Claude changed it for me, not because it writes the code, but because it keeps up with where my head is going, fast enough that I don’t lose the thread.

That gap between thinking and building, that used to be where my momentum died..

So yeah, coming back after almost a decade, I’m definitely not the same person who left. I see systems differently now, and I think I ask better questions. I don’t think of the PM years as lost time, they gave me context, and now I get to build with it.

This site is the first thing I’ve shipped in years that’s fully mine. Not a Jira ticket, not a PRD someone else built from. Mine.. ! And it’s where I’ll keep building things for myself, the stuff I need day to day.

I’m not giving that feeling up again 🙂