Posts tagged “entrepreneurship”
Your Blog Should Be an AI-Powered Second Brain, Not a Newsletter
August 31, 2026
Why newsletters on Substack and Medium are dead ends in the LLM era. How a sovereign Git repository, pure HTML, and multi-agent AI sparring turn your writing into an active, compounding Second Brain.
Vipassana 102: Sleepless Solitude, the Endless Thought Stream, and Lessons That Took Years to Land
August 28, 2026
Sitting 10 hours daily with an active mind: breath focus, the hot water bucket night routine, sleepless nights in Room 28, and why the quiet lessons of Vipassana took years to surface.
Vipassana 101: How an Accidental 12-Day Silent Retreat Rewired My Tech Mind
August 27, 2026
How an accidental signup during a WordPress crash led to 12 days of noble silence in July 2020, and what enduring stillness taught a Data/BI startup founder about pain, impermanence, and ego.
Why the Best AI Tech Stack Is from 1995 (HTML, CSS, JS, SQL)
August 25, 2026
Why 30-year-old primitives—HTML, CSS, JS, and SQL—run circles around modern frameworks when building with AI agents, from Windows 3.11 FoxPro to Alpine and SQLite.
The Rise of Legal Engineers: How Systems Thinking and Frontier AI Disrupted Big Law
August 24, 2026
Why the future of complex legal disputes belongs to legal engineers—technologists who build automated multi-model AI pipelines to master process law, collapse the billable-hour pyramid, and partner with elite counsel for pure strategic judgment.
The Shadow in the Boardroom: The Unseen Director Controlling Alterno's Cashflow (SAND Part 30)
August 22, 2026
Zero Revenue, S$2.5 Million Raised: What Alterno's Own ACRA Filings Reveal (SAND Part 29)
August 20, 2026
Still in Debt in 2026 Despite "Raising" Millions: Buyback Defaults, SIAC Notices, and Post-Settlement Harassment (SAND Part 28)
August 8, 2026
The "Lack of G in ESG": Touchstone VC Withdrawal, Statutory Labor Violations, and Alterno's Total Governance Collapse (SAND Part 27)
August 6, 2026
5 Concrete Due-Diligence Standards for VCs: Performative NGO Grants, TRL Audits, and Vietnam's Deep-Tech Shift (SAND Part 26)
August 5, 2026
The High-Altitude Blind Spot: Alterno's Lost Domain Assets (SAND Part 25)
August 4, 2026
Alterno Sand Battery Journalist Fact Pack (SAND Part 24)
August 4, 2026
VC Due-Diligence Questions for Alterno Backers (SAND Part 23)
August 3, 2026
Crimes of Fathers: Deception, Accountability, and Corporate Narcissism (SAND - Part 22)
July 21, 2026
The Alterno Greenwashing Network: VCs, Shell Companies, and Serial Crowdfunding (SAND - Part 21)
July 18, 2026
Alterno Is Attempting Crypto Crowdfunding?! (SAND - Part 20)
April 14, 2026
Technology Is Real Power: The New Rules of Influence
March 3, 2026
Why core software, protocol control, and physical infrastructure dictate real-world influence across modern industries.
The (Software) Developer Advantage: Why AI is your future, not your Fear
December 29, 2025
Why software engineers with systems-level knowledge have a structural advantage when orchestrating and verifying AI code generation.
Sand Battery IP Dispute: Patent Changes and Unpaid Compensation (SAND - Part 17)
September 24, 2025
Sand Battery Legal Fight Update: Court Documents, Claims, and What Happens Next (SAND - Part 16)
September 15, 2025
Sand Battery Court Hearing Timeline and Claims Update (SAND - Part 15)
July 26, 2025
Những lời lăng mạ cá nhân vào tháng 5 năm 2025 (SAND - Phần 14)
July 17, 2025
Personal Insults, Legal Escalation, and the Sand Battery Dispute in May 2025 (SAND - Part 14)
July 17, 2025
October 2024 Sand Battery Timeline: What Did Not Happen and Why It Matters (SAND - Part 13)
July 13, 2025
The Sand Battery IP Dispute in Vietnam: Patent Ownership and Inventorship (SAND - Part 12)
July 10, 2025
Vietnam Wrongful Termination Lawsuit Timeline in the Sand Battery Dispute (SAND - Part 11)
June 4, 2025
The Ice Battery Breakthrough: Running Cooling Without Grid Electricity (ICE - Part 3)
June 2, 2025
How off-grid ice battery benchtop experiments validated cold thermal energy storage without continuous grid reliance.
Patent Authorship vs Ownership in the Sand Battery Case (SAND - Part 10)
June 2, 2025
Sand Battery Saga: Antler Vietnam, Governance Failures, and Silent Enablers (SAND - Part 9)
May 28, 2025
What Is an Ice Battery? Sustainable Cooling and Cold Thermal Storage Explained (ICE - Part 1)
May 25, 2025
An introduction to ice batteries and cold thermal energy storage (CTES) for sustainable building cooling.
Founder Psychology: Using the Light and Dark Triad Framework
May 25, 2025
Applying the Light and Dark Triad psychological framework to founder dynamics, executive due diligence, and partnership integrity.
How the Sand Battery Patent Discovery Happened: The Untold Story (SAND - Part 8)
May 22, 2025
Sand Battery Origin Story: How the Technology Really Started (SAND - Part 6)
May 20, 2025
Sand Battery vs Lithium Battery: Cost, Lifespan, and Thermal Storage Tradeoffs (SAND - Part 5)
May 18, 2025
Sand Battery Hot Water for Homestays and Resorts: A Practical Use Case (SAND - Part 4)
May 17, 2025
Why Sand Battery Delivers Near-Zero Lifetime Emissions (SAND - Part 3)
May 16, 2025
Mental Health for Founders: The Core Operating System of Life and Leadership
May 9, 2025
Why psychological resilience and mental health serve as the foundational operating system for startup founders and engineering leaders.
How Sand Battery Can Cut Industrial Heating Costs by 50% (SAND - Part 2)
May 3, 2025
What Is a Sand Battery? Thermal Energy Storage Explained (SAND - Part 1)
May 1, 2025
From Mad Scientist to Serial Tech Entrepreneur: My Founder Journey
April 30, 2025
Reflections on transitioning from hands-on laboratory research and software engineering to scaling venture-backed tech startups.
From Cash to Courage: Startup Leadership Lessons on Meaning, Risk, and Resilience
February 14, 2025
Lessons on risk, resilience, and personal alignment after exiting corporate engineering and navigating early-stage startups.
Digital Transformation for CXOs: A Practical Leadership Framework
January 2, 2025
A pragmatic framework for enterprise leaders modernizing data architecture, engineering culture, and internal systems.
How a $1M Dream Shaped My Sand Battery Journey
April 1, 2024
How Sand Battery Went from a Balcony Experiment to Commercial Deployment
February 9, 2024
AI is my Co-founder, VC Mentor, Ghostwriter, and Coffee Buddy
November 15, 2023
How specialized AI tools and agent workflows enhance engineering execution, research synthesis, and day-to-day productivity.
How to Find Your Co-founder? Tips for First-Time Founders
July 1, 2023
A comprehensive framework for first-time founders to identify who you need, leverage VC networks, assess complementary skillsets, and evaluate personal lifestyle compatibility.
My lessons on leadership
August 8, 2018
Lessons from a 10-year startup journey: servant leadership, delegation without support as abdication, checking without micromanaging, and showing off team work.