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Notes from the journey

Building and entrepreneurship.

Notes on product experiments, distribution, customer conversations, and the daily work of building a business.

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6 published notes.

A workbench with several unfinished objects sitting together. Illustration for Why I Build So Many Things.

Why I Build So Many Things

On the tension between many experiments and the few products that show real demand. No invented outcomes.

Building · 26 Oct 2026 · 2 min read

A wooden rail marked with a long row of identical daily notches. Illustration for Systems Over Motivation.

Systems Over Motivation

On Atomic Habits and how I try to apply it to learning, building, and review. The book's ideas and my experience are kept apart.

Building · 26 Oct 2026 · 1 min read

A rough prototype opened on a table, with loose parts beside it. Illustration for Building to Learn.

Building to Learn

On prototypes, the Lean Startup, and the limit of what I can know before something runs.

Building · 26 Oct 2026 · 1 min read

A product taken apart, its few pieces laid out in a line. Illustration for First Principles in Product Development.

First Principles in Product Development

On decomposing a problem, questioning the usual solution, and reading Zero to One without turning it into a guarantee.

Building · 26 Oct 2026 · 1 min read

A finished object on a bench, and a long empty road toward distant doorways. Illustration for Why distribution is harder than building.

Why distribution is harder than building

On finding the people a product is for, after the building has started.

Building · 26 Oct 2026 · 1 min read

A restaurant counter with an order spike, a till, and a doorway. Illustration for Lessons from building products for real businesses.

Lessons from building products for real businesses

On what changes when a product has to survive an actual business workflow.

Building · 26 Oct 2026 · 1 min read

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Karthick Aravindan

Building with intelligence. Thinking in systems.

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Notes from the journey

Building and entrepreneurship.

Notes on product experiments, distribution, customer conversations, and the daily work of building a business.

Search options

All tagsBusinessEntrepreneurshipSoftwareSystems

Search the public notebook

All notesAIFinanceBuilding

2 published notes. Unpublished drafts are not included.

A wooden rail marked with a long row of identical daily notches. Illustration for Systems Over Motivation.

Systems Over Motivation

On Atomic Habits and how I try to apply it to learning, building, and review. The book's ideas and my experience are kept apart.

Building · 26 Oct 2026 · 1 min read

A product taken apart, its few pieces laid out in a line. Illustration for First Principles in Product Development.

First Principles in Product Development

On decomposing a problem, questioning the usual solution, and reading Zero to One without turning it into a guarantee.

Building · 26 Oct 2026 · 1 min read

Filed under Building & Entrepreneurship. All notes