More About Me

2026-04-01

#journal#personal#product#mindset

tldr; small-town kid, very online, dropped out of IIT Madras. The real syllabus was whatever rabbit hole was open that week: Bubble docs at 2am, Flutter screens, EV dashboards, LLM SQL hacks, ML papers, Premiere timelines, the occasional standup set.

The longer version: I dropped out with no backup plan, and the next few years were mostly me finding out what I didn't want to do.

Design was first. Didn't take. I'd been editing videos for fun for years, so I put a portfolio on Twitter and got offers from MotorOctane, Finance with Sharan and ThinkSchool, channels I used to watch, not pitch to.

Then one of the biggest YouTube creators in India offered me a full-time editor job. I could cut a good video. I'd also already gone cold on the process, so I said no. I tried running a design and media agency after that, mostly because it looked like the obvious next step. Turns out I was bad at managing people, or at least I was then.

So I swung the other way: an Electrical Engineering role at L&T Construction, highest package in my diploma college batch, at nineteen. I left within a month. Corporate life at nineteen felt like the fastest way to kill whatever curiosity I had, and I couldn't picture doing it long term.

Hardware was next. Courses, a portable body cooler, a payment tracker. None of it went anywhere. Then Foodaspas, a social app for foodies, six months of work before I admitted it was never going to ship to real users. Yeh sab gile sikwe leke mai nikla safar pe.

So I travelled. Mountains, cities, villages, less of India than I'd planned and more than I'd seen before. Somewhere in there I got into no-code because it let me ship fast, worked alongside people like Aditya Pati who were pushing India's no-code community forward, and ended up consulting on low-code EV operations for Driveo, which went well for a few months. Then Jagruti Yatra: fifteen days on a train across India, sitting with entrepreneurs in person instead of reading their case studies on a screen.

The one line I kept from all of it: coding doesn't make money, solutions do.

I picked tech because I have too many interests for one lane: biology, physiology, evolution, nutrition, medicine, sports, media, strength training, flying, space. Tech is the one base that holds all of them without making me choose. Could be commitment issues. I'm calling it a strategy.

Somethings I believe in

Clarity shows up after you start, and checking in before every step just makes you a headache for whoever's paying you to act.
Your first attempt is supposed to suck, the second one is the point.
Do not confuse motion with direction: execute, check the feedback, adjust, and only then go faster.
Iteration x consistency compounds. Neither one does much alone.
If you can control it, it's a skill issue, and if you can't, stop spending energy complaining about it.
A dopamine source that doesn't build anything is a leak, not a habit.
Polished decks, fake plans, research tabs and premium UI kits are usually just fear with better fonts.
No live URL means it's still an idea, and a live URL with no users means ship harder.
I've hired for senior roles, and a GitHub link with no live demo gets skipped, because nobody is cloning your repo to find out if it works.
Genuine beats rehearsed, since people clock the performance long before they're impressed by it.
Break it in public over polishing it in private, which is rich coming from me, with months of documentary footage still sitting unposted in my gallery.
Working software and a conversation beat a deck and a roadmap: two weekends after quitting my last job, I pitched two rough micro-SaaS builds to people I'd already worked with, and they asked for changes and started paying.
Code and media keep working after you stop touching them, which is why one of those weekend builds still makes money even though I haven't touched it in weeks.
Someone has probably hit your problem already, so read before you reinvent.
Treat the people and feeds you let near you like a decision, not an accident.
Do not confuse urgency with burnout: one gets things shipped, the other gets you benched.
I'll keep shipping rough tools and weird bots until more people pay me to ship theirs faster.

"nothing helps; i must help myself, or i am finished" - Friedrich Nietzsche