<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Sarat Pediredla — Blog</title><description>Sarat Pediredla. Founder of thredspan, Chair at Health Call, NED at Northumbria NHS, ex-CEO of hedgehog lab. Notes, work, reading, and the occasional public appearance.</description><link>https://sarat.pediredla.name/</link><language>en-gb</language><item><title>On AI Slop</title><link>https://sarat.pediredla.name/blog/on-ai-slop/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sarat.pediredla.name/blog/on-ai-slop/</guid><description>Slop is real, and the word is also doing quiet gatekeeping work. Why I think the people defending the gates are fighting a fear that is sixty-seven years old, and why I am having more fun building software than I have had since my twenties.</description><pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>ai</category><category>software</category><category>building</category></item><item><title>On becoming 45</title><link>https://sarat.pediredla.name/blog/on-becoming-45/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sarat.pediredla.name/blog/on-becoming-45/</guid><description>Why I think this is the best phase of my life, what twenty years of armour was shielding me from, and the work I am doing to keep noticing the scripts I did not write.</description><pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>life</category><category>midlife</category><category>self</category></item><item><title>On Agile theatre</title><link>https://sarat.pediredla.name/blog/on-agile-theatre/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sarat.pediredla.name/blog/on-agile-theatre/</guid><description>The rituals survived after the work moved on. What being agile looks like now that AI has compressed the cycle and the Manifesto&apos;s authors have spent twenty-five years trying to take it back.</description><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>work</category><category>agile</category><category>ai</category></item><item><title>On job titles</title><link>https://sarat.pediredla.name/blog/on-job-titles/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sarat.pediredla.name/blog/on-job-titles/</guid><description>Why I think hierarchical job titles are on the way out, and what nineteen years of carrying CEO did to my sense of self.</description><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>work</category><category>leadership</category><category>identity</category></item></channel></rss>