Utpal Vaishnav

Sovereign Architect :: Governing EightQor :: Station: Dubai. More →

[Utpal Vaishnav @utpalmv]

An active career can make you successful fast.

But most of us are trapped in passive careers.

My past 22 years were super-active: In programming, management, entrepreneurship, and angel investment.

Here is a roadmap to building your active career using the '333 model'.

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[Utpal Vaishnav @utpalmv]

Check out the latest article in my newsletter: Perceptions: The lens you don't know you're using: https://t.co/uqyK58A6Xc via @LinkedIn

[Utpal Vaishnav @utpalmv]

Decisions made through an unexamined lens are not decisions.

They are reactions with confidence.

Know your lens.

[Utpal Vaishnav @utpalmv]

You don't need a team-building retreat. You need to establish the hierarchy of execution.

The moment you clarify what the system values most in this specific season, the friction disappears.

#DhandheKaFunda: Stop playing therapist. Start architecting alignment.

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[Utpal Vaishnav @utpalmv]

Founders waste massive amounts of bandwidth trying to fix "team chemistry."

We run personality tests, schedule 1-on-1s, and talk about "toxic culture."

Here is the brutal truth: Most conflict is not personal. It’s priority confusion.

[Utpal Vaishnav @utpalmv]

They don’t hate each other. They are just executing conflicting mandates.

It is not a character flaw. It is a systems failure.

And that failure belongs to the Architect, not the operators.

[Utpal Vaishnav @utpalmv]

Check out the latest article in my newsletter: Relationships — What Is Actually Driving What https://t.co/Rl9mJ2HitI via @LinkedIn

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You fired the VP.
Brought someone better in.
Same results.

You changed the node.
The relationship driving the problem stayed the same.

[Utpal Vaishnav @utpalmv]

8/
Nimit asked the wrong question. Not "how much experience do I have," but "when did I last close a loop nobody set up for me?"
→ #DhandheKaFunda: The market no longer pays for the loops you closed. It pays for the one you can close this week.
Full piece → https://t.co/Hp4hsZNpw2

[Utpal Vaishnav @utpalmv]

1/
"I have 15 years of experience, and I'm still underpaid."
A senior guy said this to his manager last week.
The reply reframed everything I thought about experience in 2026.
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7/
The risk in the AI age was never being replaced by a machine.
It's being attached to a version of yourself the market already moved past.
The expert who stops closing loops becomes fragile. The intern who keeps closing them becomes dangerous.

[Utpal Vaishnav @utpalmv]

Dale Carnegie for Gen Z:

LinkedIn: https://t.co/lZm9RRwvAV

Journal:
https://t.co/iqXkChhGD6

#DhandheKaFunda

[Utpal Vaishnav @utpalmv]

Carnegie wrote it in 1936.
Gen Z inherits it in 2026.

The interface changed.

The human operating system did not.

Here is what systems thinking reveals when you run Carnegie through a Gen Z lens:

Posted on my journal first ... then on LinkedIn ... Link in the next tweet.

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Check out the latest article in my newsletter that talks about this:

Systems — Why Everything Is Connected
https://t.co/iG0Q89grAd

via @LinkedIn

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A system doesn't care about your intentions.

It produces what its structure allows.

Want different outcomes?
Change the structure.
Not the effort.