There’s a reason why some of the best engineering blogs in the world come from places like Silicon Valley and not from India. It’s not a lack of talent. It’s not even a lack of great work being done. It’s a lack of detailing.
Detailing is not about writing long documents. It’s about structured thinking. It’s about knowing why something was done, not just how. It’s about the invisible threads that hold everything together—the kind that make an ordinary piece of work extraordinary.
In India, work often happens at speed. “Jugaad” is a celebrated virtue. We find shortcuts. We make things work. But we don’t always go back and ask, is this the best way to do it? Is this sustainable? Will someone else understand this five years later?
And so, documentation is weak. Decision-making processes are opaque. Engineering blogs don’t emerge because the thought process never got recorded in the first place. The ideas never crystallized into something teachable.
Great work is never just the output. It’s the thinking that led to it. The debugging. The lessons. The iteration.
The best engineering teams in the world don’t just write code. They write why the code exists the way it does. They document failures. They structure their knowledge. They understand that future decisions depend on today’s clarity.
This is why angels are in the details. Because real impact comes not from making something work today, but from making something understandable, repeatable, and scalable for tomorrow.
It’s not about copying Silicon Valley. It’s about learning to think better.