Personal
Adult Friendship Requires Administration
Nobody tells you friendship stops happening on its own. One study puts a close friend at over 200 hours, and the calendar is where those hours start.
Between the Marks
My own writing, apart from the three companies.
Personal
The Best Manners Are Usually Invisible
The best manners are the ones nobody catches you performing. What that instinct looks like when it crosses from Chennai to New York.
Personal
Why Use a Fountain Pen When a Ballpoint Works Better?
Nibs, ink, urushi lacquer, and why a pen that asks more of you is the whole point, not a flaw.
Additional Writing
Selected posts from Agent Micho, Society of Scents & Spirits, and Konkan Sun Productions.
Articles from Agent Micho, Society of Scents & Spirits, and Konkan Sun Productions get added here as each one publishes.
Agent Micho
AI automation, four recent posts
Agent Micho
The Day-One AI Inventory
Most teams run more AI than anyone has written down. How to find it, sort it by risk, and keep a one-page record, without shutting anything down blindly.
Agent Micho
What the Bank Is Actually Asking
Your vendor form goes quiet after you submit it. What a bank's risk team looks for in your AI answers, and what a silent model swap costs them.
Agent Micho
What IKEA Did With 8,500 People
IKEA reskilled 8,500 workers instead of cutting them. At five employees, that same decision looks nothing like it did at IKEA.
Agent Micho
The AI Questions on Vendor Forms, and How to Answer Them
Vendor forms now ask how you use AI. What the person asking actually wants to know, and how to answer without overclaiming.
Society of Scents & Spirits
Fragrance and spirits, four recent posts
Society of Scents & Spirits
The Vodka Boom That Nearly Killed Bourbon
Vodka was sold as a spirit with no taste. How the 1970s boom pushed American whiskey to the edge before bourbon came back.
Full Article — Paid →
Society of Scents & Spirits
Old Monk, the FSSAI, and the Seven-Year Claim That Came Apart
Free full article. Updated October 6 with the latest in the court case. FSSAI says Old Monk's XXX rum is mostly unmatured neutral spirit, with matured rum under 5 percent of the blend.
Full Article — Free →
Society of Scents & Spirits
National Coffee Day: The Espresso Martini I Shake Too Long, and Three Coffee Fragrances
National Coffee Day was September 29. Three fragrances with coffee in the notes, ranked by how they wear on me, plus an espresso martini.
Society of Scents & Spirits
Negroni Week: A Template Built to Be Messed With
Negroni Week runs September 21–27. Why a three-ingredient, equal-parts drink has stayed interesting for over a century.
Konkan Sun Productions
Video production, four recent posts
Konkan Sun Productions
Working with a Skeleton Crew: What You Can and Can't Cut
Every producer eventually gets asked to shoot with fewer people than the job needs. Which roles actually flex, and what it costs when you cut the wrong one.
Konkan Sun Productions
How to Produce a Film Like a Wall Street Financier
Twenty years in program management at three financial institutions, applied directly to how an independent production actually gets planned and run.
Konkan Sun Productions
The Real Job of a Line Producer
Line producer gets reduced to budget spreadsheet in most people's heads. The real job is triage, made fast, under pressure.
Konkan Sun Productions
What My First Day on Set Taught Me, From the Actor's Side
Being talent on someone else's set for the first time, and what that taught a production company founder about running his own.
