Curiosities 11 posts

Things I'm still figuring out

Notes from the rabbit holes, books, ideas, frameworks, and the late-night curiosities that turn into something I want to remember.

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Is AI DDoS'ing the Buyer and Killing Cold Outbound?

A CEO friend spent six months and several agencies on cold outbound and got one lead. Another friend, same story. What if neither of them did anything wrong? AI has driven the marginal cost of a personalized sales message to zero, every startup is sending, and the buyer is drowning. We used AI to personalize spam, and AI SDRs may finish the channel off.

Nitin September 16, 2026 12 min read

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AI Made Building Faster. It Did Not Make Enterprises Buy Faster.

A friend running an enterprise software startup at $1.5M ARR keeps hearing the same thing from Series A investors, come back at $3M. The number stuck with me, so I went digging. What I found is a mismatch. AI made building software dramatically faster. It did not make enterprises buy software faster, and we are quietly pricing startups as if it had.

Nitin September 9, 2026 12 min read

The SaaSpocalypse Is a Vibe

The SaaSpocalypse is the strangest apocalypse I have ever audited. I pulled quarterly financials for 14 public SaaS companies and found revenue growing almost everywhere, margins improving, and attrition at record lows. So what exactly died? The multiple. And the story of why is more interesting than the panic.

Nitin September 7, 2026 15 min read

Decoherence and Error Correction: The Big Challenges

Part 7 of the Quantum Computing series. The biggest headache in quantum computing, things keep going wrong. Decoherence, T1 and T2 times, the no-cloning rule, the surface code, and why error correction is the real path forward.

Nitin July 20, 2026 7 min read

A Friendly Recap of Everything We Have Learned

Part 6 of the Quantum Computing series. A relaxed walkthrough of everything covered so far, qubits, superposition, entanglement, gates, and algorithms, in a single connected picture.

Nitin July 13, 2026 6 min read

Quantum Algorithms: The Recipes That Make the Magic Happen

Part 5 of the Quantum Computing series. Quantum algorithms are the recipes that turn qubits, superposition, entanglement, and interference into useful work. From a one-gate random bit generator to Shor's algorithm and quantum chemistry, with classical comparisons and no math.

Nitin July 9, 2026 7 min read

Quantum Gates: Your Toolbox for Building Magic

Part 4 of the Quantum Computing series. The buttons and knobs that turn qubits into useful work. Hadamard, X, Z, Y, phase, rotation, CNOT, SWAP, CZ, and Toffoli, with examples and a tiny circuit you can read.

Nitin July 6, 2026 8 min read

Superposition and Entanglement: The Real Superpowers

Part 3 of the Quantum Computing series. The two weird quantum behaviors that make quantum computers special, and how they combine to give algorithms their advantage. Library searches, magic socks, and noise-canceling interference, with no heavy math.

Nitin June 29, 2026 7 min read

The Qubit Up Close

Part 2 of the Quantum Computing series. How qubits are actually built, how they are kept stable, how they are measured, and what operations we can do on them. Superconducting loops, trapped ions, photons, lasers, and the Bloch sphere, with no heavy math.

Nitin June 22, 2026 8 min read

The Absolute Basics: A Welcome Tour

The first post in the Quantum Computing series. What a quantum computer actually is, what a qubit is, what superposition and entanglement mean, and a first glimpse at quantum algorithms. No jargon without explanation, no scary equations.

Nitin June 15, 2026 7 min read

My Nightly Deep Dive: From Black Holes and Hawking Radiation to Quantum Computers

For months I've been falling asleep to Brian Cox, Michio Kaku, Susskind, and the YouTube physics crowd. Black holes, Hawking radiation, the LHC, Planck time. Then a friend's startup pulled me into quantum computing, and the late-night curiosity became real homework.

Nitin May 6, 2026 8 min read