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A Case Study in Consistency

What 650 Days of Duolingo Taught Me

By Sugirdha

Posted on September 29, 2026

I thought I had a consistency problem. Then I remembered my 650+ day Duolingo streak. Looking at what kept that habit alive helped me rethink consistency, not as perfect discipline, but as designing systems that make it easier to keep coming back. [Read More]

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Built to Share

The Philosophy Behind Open Source

By Sugirdha

Posted on September 23, 2026

My first encounter with open source came with a question of trust. Years later, looking back at everything from Project Gutenberg to the libraries developers build on every day, I see something bigger: the value of making work accessible, building on what others have started, and leaving something a little... [Read More]

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How I Built a Control Centre in Notion

My single source of truth, and the architecture behind the personal systems I actually use every day.

By Sugirdha

Posted on September 5, 2026

I practically run my life on Notion, but not as a giant dashboard. It has become the structured backbone behind the tools I already use. In this post, I break down the architecture behind that Control Centre, how the different layers interact, and why keeping one source of truth makes... [Read More]

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Consistency [Redefined]

It’s not always about staying on track. It’s also about finding your way back.

By Sugirdha

Posted on July 6, 2026

CurioBot started as a small experiment, but it slowly became something else - a lightweight layer between me and the systems I already had. A way to preserve continuity while allowing natural drifts. [Read More]

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Where Does an AI Agent Keep Its Brain?

An unexpected lesson from one of the most-read children’s books in the world

By Sugirdha

Posted on June 28, 2026

A personal reflection on building CurioBot, a small AI consistency buddy, and the unexpected lesson it taught me about agentic AI - trust is not just about intelligence. It is about knowing where the memory, permissions, prompts, and behaviour come from. [Read More]

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I Picked Up a Book on Writing, Without Meaning to Become a Writer

What Bird by Bird Taught Me About Focus, Intuition, and Finding My Voice

By Sugirdha

Posted on May 19, 2026

I picked up Bird by Bird without meaning to become a writer. But the book reminded me that writing does not always begin with wanting to be one. Sometimes, writing begins because the mind is too full. Sometimes, it begins because there is something we need to say. And sometimes,... [Read More]

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Story Points Were Never About Time

What story points are actually measuring in the age of AI

By Sugirdha

Posted on May 10, 2026

Story points were never meant to measure how quickly we could write code. Yet many teams quietly drift toward treating them like calendar units. As AI starts accelerating software delivery, that misunderstanding becomes even more visible. If AI helps us build faster, should story points shrink too, or were they... [Read More]

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On Vulnerability and Confidence

What I Learned from a Conversation with a 10-Year-Old

By Sugirdha

Posted on January 22, 2026

A casual conversation with my 10-year-old daughter led me to reflect on vulnerability, confidence, and how openness is perceived. Through a small workplace moment and a public speaking experience, I explore when vulnerability strengthens a message and when it can backfire. [Read More]

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