Rohit Aggarwal

Meditations!

[Rohit Aggarwal @ceokoenig]

The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends towards justice!

[Rohit Aggarwal @ceokoenig]

Finished The Score by C. Thi Nguyen. A brilliant exploration of games, goals, and the metrics that shape our lives. It made me question how often we end up playing someone else’s game..

[Rohit Aggarwal @ceokoenig]

The greatest transformation in business and life begins not with changing the world around us, but with changing ourselves.

#InternationalYogaDay

[Rohit Aggarwal @ceokoenig]

Coding is dead, long live the Coder!

[Rohit Aggarwal @ceokoenig]

..the companies that earn the trust of their people will win in the long term..

[Rohit Aggarwal @ceokoenig]

IMHO, every CEO has an Inescapable duty to give employees the time, tools, and opportunity to adapt to an AI-driven world. Laying off blameless people in profitable companies is morally indefensible and leaves a lasting scar on the employer brand. The future is Human + AI, and..

[jack @jack]

we're making @blocks smaller today. here's my note to the company.

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today we're making one of the hardest decisions in the history of our company: we're reducing our organization by nearly half, from over 10,000 people to just under 6,000. that means over 4,000 of you are being asked to leave or entering into consultation. i'll be straight about what's happening, why, and what it means for everyone.

first off, if you're one of the people affected, you'll receive your salary for 20 weeks + 1 week per year of tenure, equity vested through the end of may, 6 months of health care, your corporate devices, and $5,000 to put toward whatever you need to help you in this transition (if you’re outside the U.S. you’ll receive similar support but exact details are going to vary based on local requirements). i want you to know that before anything else. everyone will be notified today, whether you're being asked to leave, entering consultation, or asked to stay.

we're not making this decision because we're in trouble. our business is strong. gross profit continues to grow, we continue to serve more and more customers, and profitability is improving. but something has changed. we're already seeing that the intelligence tools we’re creating and using, paired with smaller and flatter teams, are enabling a new way of working which fundamentally changes what it means to build and run a company. and that's accelerating rapidly.

i had two options: cut gradually over months or years as this shift plays out, or be honest about where we are and act on it now. i chose the latter. repeated rounds of cuts are destructive to morale, to focus, and to the trust that customers and shareholders place in our ability to lead. i'd rather take a hard, clear action now and build from a position we believe in than manage a slow reduction of people toward the same outcome. a smaller company also gives us the space to grow our business the right way, on our own terms, instead of constantly reacting to market pressures.

a decision at this scale carries risk. but so does standing still. we've done a full review to determine the roles and people we require to reliably grow the business from here, and we've pressure-tested those decisions from multiple angles. i accept that we may have gotten some of them wrong, and we've built in flexibility to account for that, and do the right thing for our customers.

we're not going to just disappear people from slack and email and pretend they were never here. communication channels will stay open through thursday evening (pacific) so everyone can say goodbye properly, and share whatever you wish. i'll also be hosting a live video session to thank everyone at 3:35pm pacific. i know doing it this way might feel awkward. i'd rather it feel awkward and human than efficient and cold.

to those of you leaving…i’m grateful for you, and i’m sorry to put you through this. you built what this company is today. that's a fact that i'll honor forever. this decision is not a reflection of what you contributed. you will be a great contributor to any organization going forward.

to those staying…i made this decision, and i'll own it. what i'm asking of you is to build with me. we're going to build this company with intelligence at the core of everything we do. how we work, how we create, how we serve our customers. our customers will feel this shift too, and we're going to help them navigate it: towards a future where they can build their own features directly, composed of our capabilities and served through our interfaces. that's what i'm focused on now. expect a note from me tomorrow.

jack

[Rohit Aggarwal @ceokoenig]

The value of AI isn’t strained — it blesses both the idea-makers and the builders..

[Rohit Aggarwal @ceokoenig]

AI should not be imposed top-down. When functional teams propose cool use-cases and tech teams implement them collaboratively, the quality of AI is not strained — it benefits everyone.

[Rohit Aggarwal @ceokoenig]

Everytime you blame someone else for your situation in life - you are abdicating your agency…

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Agency > Intelligence

I had this intuitively wrong for decades, I think due to a pervasive cultural veneration of intelligence, various entertainment/media, obsession with IQ etc. Agency is significantly more powerful and significantly more scarce. Are you hiring for agency? Are we educating for agency? Are you acting as if you had 10X agency?

Grok explanation is ~close:

“Agency, as a personality trait, refers to an individual's capacity to take initiative, make decisions, and exert control over their actions and environment. It’s about being proactive rather than reactive—someone with high agency doesn’t just let life happen to them; they shape it. Think of it as a blend of self-efficacy, determination, and a sense of ownership over one’s path.

People with strong agency tend to set goals and pursue them with confidence, even in the face of obstacles. They’re the type to say, “I’ll figure it out,” and then actually do it. On the flip side, someone low in agency might feel more like a passenger in their own life, waiting for external forces—like luck, other people, or circumstances—to dictate what happens next.

It’s not quite the same as assertiveness or ambition, though it can overlap. Agency is quieter, more internal—it’s the belief that you *can* act, paired with the will to follow through. Psychologists often tie it to concepts like locus of control: high-agency folks lean toward an internal locus, feeling they steer their fate, while low-agency folks might lean external, seeing life as something that happens *to* them.”

[Rohit Aggarwal @ceokoenig]

Peak advice…

[Rohit Aggarwal @ceokoenig]

We will keep improving and make a BIG dent in the training industry!

[Koenig Solutions @KoenigSolutions]

@KoenigSolutions is proud to be the Global Winner of the @Microsoft Training Services Partner of the Year 2025! 🏆

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[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

“When a man can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.”

— Viktor Frankl

[Dom Lucre | Breaker of Narratives @dom_lucre]

🔥🚨BREAKING: Groundbreaking quantum research just confirmed that time doesn't move forward but ‘folds onto itself’ this claim means your present actions might already be reshaping your past and your past is connected to your future.

[Max Sturtevant @maxwellcopy]

The realest shit Naval has said:

“People think it’s about putting in 10,000 hours, it’s not. It’s about 10,000 iterations. It’s not time that makes you better, it’s the number of feedback loops you run. The faster you can iterate, the faster you learn.”

Iterations > Repetition

[Blake Burge @blakeaburge]

The happiest people I know don't have perfect lives. But they do have one thing in common: They've mastered the art of moving on. They don't keep score, they don't cling to what if, they don't dwell. There’s a hell of a lot of progress hiding in not staying stuck in the past.

[James Clear @JamesClear]

It doesn’t make sense to continue wanting something if you’re not willing to do what it takes to get it.

If you don’t want to live the lifestyle, then release yourself from the desire. To crave the result but not the process, is to guarantee disappointment.

[Rohit Aggarwal @ceokoenig]

📘 Just started Insight Edge by Vivek Banerji (@VivekBanerji) - a practical guide for navigating the AI era.

As AI takes over execution, ideation becomes our human edge.
A must-read for business leaders, founders, and strategic thinkers.

#InsightEdge #AIandBusiness