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Akash Mishra

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  • Where the Fuel Went

    Oct 2, 2026 · 6 min read

    In June I wrote that the fuel was never the problem. This autumn it was. On running dry, stepping away, the work that brought the fuel back, and what building with agents taught me about where my capability actually lives.

  • The Spark-plug burns almost nothing

    Jun 13, 2026 · 3 min read

    Everything required to begin can already be present and still nothing starts. The bottleneck was never the fuel — it was the spark.

  • Training the Fast Brain

    May 19, 2026 · 4 min read

    My fast brain runs most of my day. The leverage I have found is treating my instincts as a trained policy — something I can install deliberately, not just inherit.

  • The Systems I Build Are the Ones I Needed

    May 3, 2026 · 4 min read

    For years I thought I was a builder by temperament. After being diagnosed with ADHD as an adult, I started re-reading the catalogue — and the building started to look less like preference and more like compensation. A note on what I have figured out, and the part I have not.

  • Briter — Technical Companion

    Apr 18, 2026 · 12 min read

    Architecture, auth model, image pipeline, git-sync queue, and the content-only deploy fast path that makes Briter feel fast. Plus the Next.js 16 standalone gotchas that future-me will thank present-me for.

  • Briter — Or, What Happens When You Diagnose the Wrong Problem

    Apr 18, 2026 · 5 min read

    I thought I needed a way to reach people more consistently. What I actually needed was a way to stop losing drafts to the friction of publishing them. This is the story of that misdiagnosis, the small tool I built in response, and where I think it goes next.

  • Workspace 42 — How I Stopped Losing Context Between My Own Days

    Apr 11, 2026 · 5 min read

    How I built Workspace 42 with Notion, n8n, and TickTick to stop losing context between days and reduce the friction between notes, meetings, and tasks.

  • Workspace 42 — Technical Companion

    Apr 11, 2026 · 6 min read

    The technical companion to Workspace 42 — the n8n workflow architecture, why business logic lives as scripts, the cron schedule, and the tradeoffs I'm consciously carrying.