Mar'26: unfolding time
March 2026 was so slow that I was able to travel for a week, fall sick for a week, take time to recover, read a few books and learn a few things all in one month.
When I try to reflect on March a few significant things come to mind:
A realization
Reading the book: The Goals
Hosting the Raycast session
Family trip to Puri & Bhubaneswar
Breaking the spell of “no clients”
1. The Realization
I am an irrational person. I give a lot of weightage to my emotions and feelings in the moment. It has often done more harm then good for me.
I don’t regret it. It’s just a pattern that I notice now.
I have faced repercussions for reacting to my emotions instead of processing and doing what’s best for me.
In second grade, I did not go to the school’s annual function because I was angry that I was not selected for the dance group because a kid removed my name. I held resentment and I didn’t go. I was angry the whole evening!
If I had just let go of that anger, I could have enjoyed my evening, watched some performances, and eaten some good food with mumma. But I didn’t go and I took her chance of spending a good evening as well.
This is one such instance, I have countless others. I am not able to let go of that turbulent child in me who becomes petty when things don’t go her way.
Even right now as I am writing this I want to kick a pebble and say, “Who wants to be rational anyway, it’s Boringggg....!”
2. Reading ‘The Goals’
Every once in a while you come across a piece of art, book, film or drama that grips you for a long time and all you can say about that art is “Brilliance.”
When you look at the cover of the book, you will think it is some self-helpy non-fiction book. But it’s anything but that.
It’s the most interesting FICTIONAL book
... on manufacturing plants.
This book will educate you about business principles by never answering your questions directly.
It has socrates methodology of teaching with a story and asking questions.
I have never understood the crux of business better than now.
The ultimate goal of every business is to make money. If our idiotic ways of productivity or efficiancy doesn’t add to that than it’s a idiotic waste of time.
It’s a 100% recommend-worthy book for me.
3. Hosting the Raycast Session
I am not a bad speaker or host. But when you let your skills rest for too long. It gets rusty. I hosted a session after a really long time.
The crazy part? People joined in even after I had to postpone the session because of thunderstorms and power cut.
Surprisingly a lot of Raycast members also joined the session.
The session went well. But I fumbled quite a few times and that nervousness wasn’t leaving me.
I only see one way out of this. Doing more sessions.
4. Traveling to Puri & Bhubaneswar
It was a nice family trip with the usual family shenanigans. A little bit of fights, some love, some good food, some stories spread all around.
Travel truly shows you the hidden aspects of people close to you. For one reason or other, you turn to admire them more. Or there might be this one moment where someone opens up and now all of the previous conflicts just make sense.
Family trips never seem to be just about the destination.
5. Breaking the spell of “no clients”
In December, I left my last job at an influencer marketing agency. I thought I will work on Hugsy (an app for couples) and alongside find a few freelance gigs.
For about 2 months, I wasn’t able to break the spell of “no clients.”
Then I was talking to a friend and telling her about all the cool things you can do with the combination of claude code & n8n.
She told me about the problem at one of her client’s shopify stores. They had an inventory of 8000+ products. It needed to be categorized, along with tags, descriptions and creating smart collections.
Two people were already working on it manually for about 6 months.
I said, “It’s easy, we can use Shopify’s API along with claude code agents to write the descriptions, do the tagging and create collections too.”
This became my first automation project in March. Totally different from my previous gigs of content and marketing but super fun.
Cluade wrote 60+ python scripts.
Well, that’s it folks.
I am hoping to make April more interesting. I am posting short videos on Instagram now. if you would like to see, you can check them out at @akanksha.notes
Poitu Varen (I will go & come back)
Akanksha