26/03/26 i enjoy building products, playing squash and quizzing. currently trying to get less bad at poker. currently eir at entrepreneur first building some fun things: cricinfo mail — live cricket scorecards in a gmail ui. went viral on reddit, which promptly got my account permanently banned. if you know someone at reddit, please help papertovideo — turn any research paper into an explainer video hush — local speechtotext transcription app rendezvous — helps friends figure out where to meet in the middle squash vision — computer vision analytics for squash matches previously cofounded havia, an aipowered maintenance coordinator for property managers. had paying customers, sold the tech stack, learned a lot studied engineering at iit madras worked at fulcrum ai other things about me i've been to more quizzes than i can count and won fewer than i'd like to admit mildly obsessed with the business of sports. i will talk your ear off about franchise ownership economics across ipl, epl, nba
12/11/25 email inbox zero twitter sporadic thoughts github so many green squares, hit me with a pull request linkedin mostly for stalking people instagram quarterly photo dumps
11/02/26 a place for my musings which i publish on substack trying to be a kid again (kind of)
06/12/25 "happiness comes from balance, progress comes from imbalance" jack altman "it is nice to end up where you wanted to be, but the person you are when you get there is far more important" richard hamming, you and your research "the opposite of success isn’t failure; it is namedropping” nassim nicholas taleb "intensity is the price of excellence" warren buffett "sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect" teller "anyone can get a first meeting" michael ovitz, who is michael ovitz "happiness is not a tangible thing, it's a byproduct of achievement" ray kroc, grinding it out "there's aesthetic value in doing things the right way" danny meyer, setting the table "when there is doubt, there is no doubt” frank slootman, amp it up "you measure yourself by the people who measure themselves by you" phil knight, shoe dog "impatience is an argument with reality" rick rubin, the creative act "take care of the work and the work will take care of you" ryan serhant, owning manhattan "never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake" – napoleon bonaparte "be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work" – gustave flaubert "history will be kind to me, for i intend to write it" – winston churchill
30/11/25 act with urgency do what you say you will show up on time close the loop people remember how you make them feel consistency breeds excellence ship something everyday exercise everyday it's a marathon, not a sprint surround yourself with people who are better than you are make friends on the internet work harder than you think you should if it's under an hour, walk you're not above anything you're not below anything great outfits should be repeated taste is a muscle sweat the details a lot of things matter a little a few things matter a lot
06/12/25 my playlists pop telugu, tamil and others soundtracks neoclassical ambience rock & alternative indie & acoustic hiphop & r&b edm & electronic on repeat lately youth glass animals now or never tkandz live in the moment portugal. the man the woods hollow coves mr. brightside the killers petricor ludovico einaudi howlin for you the black keys lisztomania phoenix feel it still portugal. the man alltime favorites ludovico einaudi, anirudh ravichander, hans zimmer, coldplay, the strokes, calvin harris, taylor swift, kendrick lamar, lana del rey, olafur arnalds
07/03/26 a small selection of my favorite blogs and online publications simon willison quarter mile anu atluru paul graham calvin frenchowen ben kuhn manas saloi andrew bosworth brie wolfson sam altman c.s. chiwanza i also enjoy the following publications colossus the players tribune the cricket monthly
05/12/25 a semiregularly updated collection of my favorite physical and digital products bits head graphene 360 speed 125 squash racquet garmin forerunner 165 bytes claude readwise reader bevel health geoguessr cosmos
26/03/26 a collection of people from various disciplines who inspire me kane williamson (athlete) pat cummins (athlete) ludovico einaudi (musician) novak djokovic (athlete) i. m. pei (architect) michael jordan (former professional basketball player) patrick collison (cofounder, stripe)
06/12/25 a semiregularly updated collection of some of my favorite websites on the internet https://aidanjs.com https://bfcm.stripe.com https://www.chloeyan.me/ferry https://laxspace.co https://plasticlist.org https://posthog.com https://randoma11y.com https://rotating.parts https://ryo.lu https://press.stripe.com https://tempo.xyz https://www.yukiasakura.com https://virgilabloh.com
06/12/25 implementation the app uses the nextjs app router and is hosted on vercel all notes and metadata are stored in a notion database and fetched via the notion api notion page content is converted to markdown using https://www.npmjs.com/package/notiontomd and rendered withhttps://www.npmjs.com/package/reactmarkdown pages are https://nextjs.org/docs/app/buildingyourapplication/rendering/servercomponentsstaticrenderingdefault at build time and revalidated ondemand via an api route a https://github.com/features/actions workflow syncs content from notion and triggers a rebuild, so publishing a new note is as simple as writing it in notion the site is readonly there's no auth, no user accounts, no editing from the frontend the ui is based on alana goyal's opensource notes app, adapted for a notionbacked readonly setup it's fully opensource and available on https://github.com/SpunkyMartian/anvithblog, so feel free to fork it or submit a pull request! gratitude alana goyal for the beautiful opensource notes ui that this site is built on claude for helping build, debug, and ship just about everything
26 March 2026
a collection of people from various disciplines who inspire me