BTS of An Architect's Dilemma | Reflections from the week - Arun Kumar Chokkappa

Hi - 

I have a full-time job. I also wrote a book.

Nobody at work asked me to. Nobody at home expected me to. And honestly, there were several mornings when I questioned why I was doing it at all.

But here's the thing: late nights and early mornings mean the world is asleep. No emails, no meetings. No decisions need to be made for anyone else. Just me, my thoughts, and whatever I was trying to build.

That's where An Architect's Dilemma was written. Sentence by sentence. Chapter by chapter.

I am not telling this to impress you. I am telling you this because the book is literally about this: creating systems without losing your soul. And I had to live with that tension every single day while writing it.

Some days the system won. I would write my 300 words, close my laptop, and get on with the day feeling grounded. Some days the soul won. I would sit there staring at a half-written paragraph, delete everything, and go to bed.

Both days were necessary.

Three months since the book launched, copies have quietly reached Singapore, Switzerland, Dubai, Canada, and the US. I still find that surreal—rather unreal for a Chennai-based first-time author with a day job and this weird writing schedule.

I don't have a publicist, and I don't run ads. I have this newsletter, a podcast, a website, and a book—all supported by so many of you for whom I remain grateful every time I hold a copy.

What I do have is you—people who open this newsletter every week. That's everything.

Over to You

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Arun 

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