Principal engineer. Ambitious and not quiet about it. Curious about AI, quantum, and where India's tech story is heading. Tends to build alone. Working on that. This blog is the fix.
Ideas
It has been a few days since I wrote anything here. Life got busy. I have been visiting flats, talking to builders and brokers, dealing with office work. The usual grind that fills your days without leaving much room for thinking. Today the rain gave me a pause. It has
Spirituality
Some people are born intelligent. Others seem to pick it up along the way. At least that is how it looks from the outside. After 35 years of watching people, including myself, I have started to see it differently. Intelligence is inbuilt. It comes pre-installed, like a feature you
Learning
I went swimming this afternoon. The pool was not empty. A group of friends were there, probably from my society, loud and having fun the way people in their late twenties do. I had never seen them before. One of them was not having fun. He was trying to learn.
Meditation
I meditate every day. Or I try to. The way I do it will sound strange. I meditate while walking. Morning walks are my trigger. I read somewhere, I think it was Atomic Habits or Deep Work, that if you want to turn something into discipline you do not just
Engineering
My organization is betting on harness engineering. The idea is solid. Streamline the process, close the gap between QE and Dev, bring in agentic engineers. What the team has built so far works. They have packaged strong opinions into a CLI, defined rules for how agents should behave, and shipped
Life
I keep telling myself I will finish this project, lead it to success, and then step back. Let the machine run on its own. I have been telling myself this for years. The train never stops, and I never get off. The desire to contribute, to be seen as valuable,
Life
I am looking at flats to buy right now. Out of dozens of options, two stand out. Both are good. Both have trade-offs. And for weeks, I have been stuck. Price, location, layout, resale value, proximity to work. The variables keep multiplying. Every time I lean toward one, my