I run DevBatch from Dallas. I write here on building companies, investing in operators, and raising a family.

What four thousand monthly salaries actually mean

I am not an inventor. I am not building something the world has never seen. I run a services firm, and the way I think about its impact is through the salaries it has paid out, one month at a time, for sixteen years.

The uneducated engineer

Three buckets of education, and the one we have stopped filling. Why I think the modern engineering profession is graduating brilliant people who are still uneducated.

پاکستان کو چائنہ جیسی ترقی سے کون روک رہا ہے؟

ایک کاروباری شخص کا خاکہ کہ پاکستان اگلے بیس سال میں چین جیسی ترقی کیسے کر سکتا ہے، تسلسل، انسانی سرمائے، شاگردی، تارکینِ وطن اور اعتماد کے ستونوں پر۔

Who Is Holding Pakistan Back?

A founder's blueprint for how Pakistan could engineer a China-style rise over the next two decades, across continuity, human capital, apprenticeship, the diaspora, and trust.

چین کی ترقی کا سفر

ایک کاروباری شخص کا چین کی ترقی پر تجزیہ: نقل کرنے والی قوم کیسے ایجاد کرنے والی قوم بنی، انسانی سرمائے کی نظر سے۔

How China Rose

A founder's firsthand analysis of how China moved from the world's factory to a leader in quality and innovation, told through the lens of human capital.

Your first hundred blog posts will not be very good. Your first thirty talks will not be very good. Your first fifty essays for the newsletter will not be very good. Mine were…

I am older now. I have driven a Mercedes for cash, and I now drive a car with two hundred and twenty thousand kilometers on it. My favorite food is masoor ki daal. My pants are…

Lessons in namaz for your startup

Five times a day, every day, for as long as I am alive and conscious. The structure is its own lesson.

A dream is not what you see in your sleep. A dream is what does not let you sleep. If the thing you are working on is not keeping you up at night, you are not working on the right…

How to Adopt AI in a Mid-Market Business

Two public playbooks, one sector asymmetry, and a five-step framework for owners facing a generational technology shift.

If you cannot say no, at least learn to say "give me a hundred years, I will come back to you." It is the same answer in practice. It is gentler in form. It buys you time to think…