Sudarshan Gore 
Lessons from web developers, designers, and writers I quoted $95 for a WooCommerce setup last year. The client paid immediately, requested two minor changes, and left a positive review. I felt smart until I realized the same work would’ve been $285 if I’d positioned it differently. Not because I underestimated hours, I tracked those correctly. … Read more
You’ve been watching people with half your skill launch things you could have built in a weekend. They’re posting screenshots of Stripe notifications. The gap isn’t technical. You know WordPress. The gap is that you’re treating AI like a new framework to master, when AI hustles for WordPress developers, is really just another layer you … Read more
You’re switching between two tabs: an AI Engineer posting requiring 2 years of experience, and an Upwork gig to automate customer onboarding. You close the laptop without applying to either. The confusion isn’t technical it’s structural. You don’t know which version of yourself the market actually wants. When people say “AI Engineer vs AI Automation … Read more
It was 7:42 a.m. The kitchen light was still off. My phone sat face down on the counter while I poured water into the kettle. It buzzed once, then again. A voice note. From a number I recognized instantly. Someone I talk to every week. “Can you send it now? I’ll explain later.” I stood … Read more
The failure didn’t announce itself. Nothing broke. No one complained. No metric dipped far enough to trigger a review. The work moved forward. Deadlines were met. Decisions landed on time. That’s usually where failure is supposed to end. But a few weeks later, while rereading a short internal note I’d approved with help from an … Read more
I tried for months, felt stuck, like you, here’s what actually works. There’s a moment when you stop picking up your phone for updates and start picking it up to confirm something hasn’t happened. You open your UPI app. The balance still says $250. It’s said the same thing for three days. You refresh your … Read more
You’re tired, but not in the obvious way. Not burned out and not confused at the surface level. It’s a quieter thing. You’ve built something, or almost built it, and or planned it carefully enough that it feels like building. There are tabs open, GitHub repos half-alive, diagrams that made sense yesterday, a Slack message … Read more
The screen is still glowing long after it should have gone dark. You’ve been staring at the same loss curve for almost half an hour, half-expecting it to behave differently if you give it enough time. It doesn’t. It flattens, dips slightly, and sometimes gets worse. You refresh anyway, not because it helps, but because … Read more
The first thing that breaks isn’t the system.It’s you. You’re still awake at 11:43 p.m., refreshing a dashboard you’ve already checked four times. Leads came in earlier. The website didn’t crash. Payments cleared. Nothing is wrong in the way alarms define wrong. And still, you’re watching. Because somewhere underneath the numbers, there’s a quiet fear … Read more
