Scars from the Trenches

Akmal Muqeeth

Writing about the hard-won lessons from building things, making decisions, and living with the consequences.

Recent Writing

On Shipping

Shipping isn't a milestone. It's a reckoning. The moment the thing you built meets the world and the world doesn't care the way you thought it would.

The First Scar

Every scar has a story. This is where mine starts — not at the beginning, but at the point where the beginning stopped mattering.

The Invisible Output

A developer turned manager no longer has code to show for their day. Learning to see what you've actually built — and teaching them to see it too — might be the most important thing you do as their manager.