Abhinav Saxena

A body of clay, a mind full of play, a moment’s life - that is me!

I’m Abhinav - a generalist who builds products, writes code, and leads engineering teams.

You can read more about me here. I write notes and occasionally blog.

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Featured Writing

AI doesn't have a Moore's Law

21 Apr 2026 ideas

AI progress isn't one curve doubling on a clock. It's a bundle of partially correlated curves, each running on its own logic, each hitting its own ...

AI Scaling Laws Moore's Law

Microservices are a people decision, not a technical one.

21 Feb 2026 technology

Microservices are mostly a way to organize teams, not to scale systems. Most companies adopt them backwards, and AI coding agents make the case for...

Microservices Software Engineering Architecture

Growth Debt - Part 1

28 Mar 2021 startups

As companies grow, they accumulate what I call growth debt - genuine reasons why shipping slows down that have nothing to do with team effort or co...

Management Engineering TechDebt

Hierarchy of Employees' Needs

12 Mar 2021 leadership

A framework for understanding what motivates individual team members, mapping Maslow's hierarchy to the workplace - from salary and work quality to...

Management Leadership People

Peacetime

26 Nov 2020 leadership

We glorify wartime leadership but don't appreciate peacetime leaders enough. Using Satya Nadella and Yahoo as contrasting examples, this post explo...

Leadership Startup Peacetime