Long-form writing on life, work, self-hood, culture, power, and the search for meaning.
Ideas, lived experience, sharp observations, inconvenient truths, spiritual inquiry, leadership lessons, and the occasional intellectual punch in the face. These essays examine life as it is lived — in boardrooms and on highways. They explore life in relationships and in solitude. They also delve into the uneasy space between ambition and meaning.
Latest Essays
The Graveyard of Sure Things — In Conversation
An AI-hosted conversation about the essay “The Graveyard of Sure Things.” The thinking is mine; the conversation is theirs. Read the full piece on sumirnagar.com.
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The Question Nobody Funds
“Should we?” — two words, and the most expensive question in technology, because almost nobody is paid to ask it. The final essay in The Cost of Better on the…
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There Is No Cloud
The cloud sounds like weather and runs like a foundry. The hidden environmental cost of AI data centres — in power, water, and the towns that pay the bill.
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The Graveyard of Sure Things
I have spent forty years watching technologies arrive announced as the destination — the place the whole industry was finally heading — and then, one by one, be revealed as…
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From Punch Cards to Claude Code
In 1978, I learned to code by hand-feeding punch cards into a machine. Today I describe my work in plain English and watch software write itself. Across that arc, an…
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The Last Human in the Loop – The Most Reassuring Phrase in Modern Enterprise
It is 3:47am on a Sunday at a large bank. An autonomous adversary has been probing the bank’s third-party integrations for the past six minutes. By the time the bank’s…
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