{"id":1335,"date":"2026-04-09T00:17:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T00:17:31","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-04-09T00:17:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T00:17:31","slug":"reading-people-really-reading-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/2026\/04\/09\/reading-people-really-reading-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading people. Really reading them."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reading people. Really reading them.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve done hundreds of funding meetings. The best deals came from watching micro-expressions, hearing what wasn&#8217;t said, feeling the energy when a founder talked about their problem. AI can process data faster than me, but it can&#8217;t tell when someone&#8217;s lying about their burn rate or genuinely passionate about solving something real.<br \/>\nThe human stuff still matters most in business.<\/p>\n<p><small><em>Originally posted on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/lakamsanik\/status\/2041951088577016242\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">X<\/a><\/em><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading people. Really reading them. I&#8217;ve done hundreds of funding meetings. The best deals came from watching micro-expressions, hearing what&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-x-posts","wpcat-19-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}