Abinesh Krishan अभिनेश कृष्ण

Today I’m very excited to announce a global partnership between 8090 and EY. EY will adopt 8090’s Software Factory and use it to help their customers break free from slow, costly and failure-prone legacy enterprise software using our AI-native software factory that reimagines the software development lifecycle. EY is a massive global organization with more than 400,000 employees and tens of thousands of customers in every sector of the global economy. 8090’s Software Factory is the new way organizations can move to a focus on building software that is powerfully bespoke, hi quality, easy to maintain, easy to migrate and always consistent and up to date. No drift, no cruft, no waste. Companies that build with Software Factory grow faster, are more profitable and are more adaptable in moments of change like we are witnessing today. Let’s rewrite all the enterprise software in the world. EY and 8090 will work together to do its part.

A powerful scene in the Odyssey happens when Odysseus finally returns to Ithaca after twenty years of war and wandering. You would expect the story to end with celebration, with the hero coming home, the family reunited, and order restored. Homer does something far stranger. Odysseus arrives disguised as a beggar, because Athena warns him that the palace has been taken over by more than a hundred suitors who have been living there for years, eating his food, drinking his wine, and pressuring his wife Penelope to marry one of them. They believe Odysseus is dead and in their minds the kingdom is already theirs. So the king of Ithaca walks through his own halls dressed in rags while the men stealing his house sit comfortably at his tables. They mock him, throw scraps at him, and one of them even strikes him, and Odysseus takes it. That is the remarkable part, because the same man who blinded the Cyclops and survived twenty years of disasters now stands quietly while strangers insult him in his own home. Homer tells us his heart burns inside his chest and that he wants to attack them immediately, yet he restrains himself and waits. Instead of striking, Odysseus studies the room carefully. He counts the men, watches their habits, and quietly observes which servants remain loyal and which have betrayed him. The hero of the Odyssey does something most people cannot do, which is delay revenge until the moment is right. Eventually Penelope announces a contest and brings out Odysseus’ great bow, declaring that she will marry the man who can string it and shoot an arrow through twelve axe heads lined up in a row. One by one the suitors try and fail, because none of them can even bend the bow. Then the beggar asks for a turn. The suitors laugh at first, but the bow is eventually handed to him. Odysseus takes it in his hands and strings it effortlessly. Homer says the sound of the bowstring tightening rings through the hall like the note of a swallow. Then he places an arrow on the string and sends it cleanly through all twelve axe heads. In that moment the beggar disappears. Odysseus turns the bow toward the suitors and reveals who he is. What follows is one of the most brutal scenes in Greek literature. The doors are sealed and the suitors realize too late that they are trapped inside the hall. Odysseus, his son Telemachus, and two loyal servants begin killing them one by one. There is no escape, no mercy, and no negotiation. The men who spent years consuming another man’s house die inside it. It is a violent ending, but Homer wants you to understand something important. The real danger to Odysseus was never just the monsters and storms on the long journey home. It was the possibility that someone else might take his place while he was gone. When Odysseus finally returns, he reminds everyone in Ithaca of a simple truth: a man’s home is not truly his unless he is willing to fight for it.

This is Gary. He's an IT consultant in his 50s. He is a database specialist and worked for a high street retail bank in various roles for 20 years. Last year Gary was made redundant during a company "rightsizing" initiative. Gary was told his role could be done more cheaply by a combination of offshore staff and AI. Gary is currently at the beach in the Canary Islands, calculating the day rate he will demand as an independent contractor when his old company phones him up and says "Gary, could you come back please? AI and our offshore supplier have broken everything"

I just crashed my new Kia. Now I have Nokia

Donald trump wanted to paint the White House. He called three contractors for quotes. The Chinese guy quoted $3 million. The European guy quoted $7 million. The Indian guy quoted $10 million. Trump asked the Chinese guy “How did you quote $3 million?” The Chinese guy replied “$1 million for paint, $1 million for labor and $1 million profit.” Trump asked the European guy. He replied: “$3 million for paint, $2 million for labor and $2 million profit.” Trump asked the Indian guy. He replied: “$4 million for you. $3 million for me. And we will give $3 million to the Chinese guy and ask him to paint it.” The Indian guy got the contract. 😄

Meanwhile in China, the viral White House prayer scene has turned into a full-blown social media trend. Bosses at small businesses and factories are rounding up their employees to make fun of the stunt—forming a circle, placing hands on shoulders or heads, and praying in a humorous way for “better sales, higher incomes for every worker and the whole company.” Videos of these “prayer circles” are blowing up on Douyin and Weibo. Not sure how much divine favor the White House actually summoned, but these Chinese bosses? They straight-up turned the Oval Office prayer stunt into free global marketing gold🤣

Met with a financial advisor today My wife set it up She wants "a professional opinion" on our retirement Nice office Glass desk Diploma on the wall from a school I've never heard of The advisor was 23 Maybe 24 He had a pullover vest and a rehearsed handshake He handed me a pitch book It had someone else's name on it I chose not to mention that He said "based on your risk profile I'd recommend a 60/40 portfolio" I said "what's the fee?" He said "1% annually" I ran the compound drag over 25 years in my head Said the number out loud Then I said it again slower His smile went away I said "what's the tax strategy?" He said "we review that annually" I said "what's the Roth conversion ladder? The asset location framework? The blended expense ratio on the underlying funds? Why wouldn't I just buy VOO for free and do this from my phone?" He opened his mouth Closed it Excused himself Came back with his boss Same vest Bigger watch The boss said "I hear you have some concerns" I said "not concerns. Questions. Your 23-year-old couldn't answer them. That's my concern." My wife kicked me under the table I kept going The boss said "the value is in the relationship" I said "that's what my therapist says too. She charges $250 an hour. You're charging more and doing less." The boss looked at my wife My wife looked at the ceiling I've now been to a therapist, a realtor, a car dealership, and a financial advisor this month My wife has walked out of every single one I asked her in the car what she thinks the common denominator is She said "you" I said "interesting. Not sure how to model that." Plz fix. Thx. Sent from my iPhone

After a decade of building Broadlume and a year since joining forces with Cyncly, today is my last day. It's emotional, but it's the start of the next chapter. Here's the message I sent my team: I knew this day would eventually come, but now that it's here, it's surreal. As I wrote (and rewrote) this email a hundred times, it was hard not to get emotional. There's no way for me to properly put my thoughts into words… but here we go. There are so many people to thank and so many amazing memories. I am truly grateful for every single person who played a part in this 10+ year journey. For 10 years, I never had the Sunday Scaries or dreaded a single Monday.. not one. I woke up wanting to find out what problems we'd solve together and what milestones we'd celebrate. That feeling is what people spend entire careers searching for. And I got to live it for a decade, thanks to you. Every Monday morning felt like a reunion with friends, not work. I got to wake up and do what I loved, with people I loved working with. But beyond that, the work we did changed an industry. We fought for the small business owner, and that's something I'm incredibly proud of. Our work impacted 4,500 mom and pop flooring retailers across the country. They will forever operate differently because of us, and they'll continue to be taken care of by this incredible team long after I'm gone. We proved that when you take care of your team and treat customers like family, everyone wins. That's the legacy we built together, and one worth being proud of. Now, what comes next for me? I'm going to spend time with my family. Believe it or not, when you give your personal cell phone number out to the entire flooring industry, hours and days can slip away pretty quickly. I want to be present with my wife and two young daughters. My oldest daughter, Amelia, is two and a half, and her world runs on questions. Her favorite: "But why, Daddy?" And I can't wait for the day she asks, "but why did you name me Amelia?" And I'll get to tell her about FloorCon and how our final show was in Amelia Island, FL, right around the time she was born. My youngest, Charlotte, is just three months old. She doesn't know anything about flooring… yet. But I'm excited to explain to her why hardwood is better than LVP, and why she always needs to shop local. And lastly, my wife Jill has been the most patient, supportive, and understanding partner during this journey. I'm excited to just focus on being a dad, husband, and bad golfer for a bit. Working with you was the greatest honor of my professional life. The actual daily experience of being in the trenches, and doing the work together, is what I will always remember. Thank you for trusting me when I didn't know what I was doing. Thank you for following me into uncertainty. And thank you for making Monday, the best day. With love.

I built a land acquisition intelligence/sourcing platform that scores 1.5M parcels of land across the I-95 corridor for data center and industrial conversion potential. All with Claude Code... in less than 36 hours. This used to take their team weeks. Here's how I did it. 1/ Ingested 1.5M parcels from NC OneMap's ArcGIS REST API with full polygon geometry, zoning, ownership, and tax records across 14 counties 2/ Pulled I-95 corridor geometry and 142 interchanges from OpenStreetMap's Overpass API 3/ Ingested 1,107 substations, 8,174 transmission lines, and 292 gas pipelines from HIFLD federal infrastructure data 4/ Ran PostGIS distance calculations on every parcel to I-85 centerline and nearest interchange using LATERAL KNN joins (100x faster than cross joins) 5/ Normalized hundreds of raw county zoning codes into six categories and scored farmland confidence 0-100 using tax programs, land use codes, and acreage heuristics 6/ Built a motivated seller detection engine: out-of-state owners, estates/trusts, tax delinquency, long hold periods, declining assessed values 7/ Calculated conversion readiness scores using reverse-join spatial queries against 20K industrial parcels (turned a multi-hour query into 15 seconds) 8/ Scraped 2,100 active listings from Redfin's public CSV endpoint with recursive bounding box subdivision to beat their 350-result cap 9/ Wired it all into a composite acquisition score (0-100) with configurable weights, a full-screen map explorer with vector tiles, and a document generation suite that produces institutional-grade investment memos, slide decks, and automated intelligence briefs The whole thing runs on PostGIS, FastAPI, React, and MapLibre GL JS. I did all of this with no paid mapping APIs and no paid data sources... at least not yet. Every piece of spatial math runs inside the database, not Python. That's how you process 1.5M parcels without melting your laptop. And you still want to tell me bespoke software isn't the future?