Vishal Kapur
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Some writings here. I also have some open source projects and say random things on twitter.
2025
  • The Joy of Building
    Coding agents have resparked my love of building
2020
  • An Ode To Rabbit Holes
    I’ve been reading The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel. In it he mentions a quote from John Bogle (the founder of Vanguard and pioneer of index fu...
  • How to Have Impact
    > The best minds of our generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks.‌‌ ‌‌‌ – Jeffrey Hammerbacher [https://www.fastcompany....
  • Inefficient Progress
    > “Don’t mistake motion for progress.” This phrase used to be up on the wall at Slack (maybe it still is). It’s a good sentiment. Every time I walked
2019
  • The Anti-Startup
    I wasn’t expecting this tweet to hit a nerve: > The anti-startup: do small things that solve small problems, open source everything you build, don’t
  • People-first decision making
    The mental model that has been most helpful to me in making big life/work decisions is what I think of as "people-first decision making."
  • The automation of politeness
    Are we going through the motions with one another and expressing things a computer would say, or are we being truly thoughtful, empathetic and considerate?
  • Why choose entrepreneurship
    Why choose entrepreneurship? There are plenty of other things to do that are less stressful, more predictable and afford better work/life balance— in other words, easier. For me, it comes down to these things.
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