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- I Built a Voice AI in 30 Days. Its Hardest Bug Took Three. openVAPI, an open-source alternative to Vapi: 4,600 lines, a 3:35 AM commit, and a recording mixer that had no idea what time it was.
- I Wrote 15 Postcards Nobody Asked For. They Weren't for My Friends. They were for the version of me I'm trying to become. The last 5% is where he shows up.
- Measuring Personal Growth Three metrics for tracking who you're becoming — speed, outgrown problems, expanding options.
- Spiti: Five Days, One Mountain, One Arm-Wrestle I'm Still Losing. Mountains, monasteries, pushups at 15,000ft and the one fight I never had a chance at winning.
- I Did the Math on My Spotify Obsession. I'm Spotify's Problem. A proper cost model for Indian subscribers — marginal royalty, fully-loaded overhead, break-even analysis, and what 100k+ minutes/year actually means for Spotify's P&L.
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Sep 16
I Turned 10,000 Days Old Today and deleted a dozen dreams to celebrate
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Aug 31
I Now Trade Memes With People I'll Probably Never See Again. Some friendships are built for duration and some for intensity, and the second kind is not a failed draft of the first.
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Jul 22
For 30 Years, Bending Your Editor to Fit You Was a Vim Thing. Now It's the Whole Job. Dev tools used to be things you adopted. They're becoming things you write, and the gap between wanting one and having it just collapsed to an evening.
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Jul 19
Why 72 km/h Is the Perfect Speed for an Indian Highway. Not 70, Not 75, Not 80. The physics is a wide forgiving plateau. The arithmetic broke the tie, and it landed on exactly 20 metres a second.
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Jun 29
You Can't Call It Bad Luck Yet The Monthly Rabbit Hole: a 2,000-year-old parable about a runaway horse, and the verdict that hasn't arrived.
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Jun 22
I Was Confidently Wrong About Almost Everything Not occasionally. Constantly. Three favourite lies, and the ones that cost me.
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Jun 22
I Wrote 15 Postcards Nobody Asked For. They Weren't for My Friends. ★ They were for the version of me I'm trying to become. The last 5% is where he shows up.
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Jun 15
The People Who Make You Better Just by Existing The Monthly Rabbit Hole: a line from the Stoics about the rare people who improve you even when they're only in your head.
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Jun 12
Measuring Personal Growth ★ Three metrics for tracking who you're becoming — speed, outgrown problems, expanding options.
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Jun 08
Spiti: Five Days, One Mountain, One Arm-Wrestle I'm Still Losing. ★ Mountains, monasteries, pushups at 15,000ft and the one fight I never had a chance at winning.
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May 24
I Built a Voice AI in 30 Days. Its Hardest Bug Took Three. ★ openVAPI, an open-source alternative to Vapi: 4,600 lines, a 3:35 AM commit, and a recording mixer that had no idea what time it was.
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May 22
Your iPhone Doesn't Improve 20% a Year. Apple Just Tells You It Does. What semiconductor history taught me about every '20% faster' slide Apple has ever shown.
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Apr 22
I Thought I Was Tired From Doing Too Much. I Was Wrong. A Stanford professor's case that burnout is a friction problem, not a volume problem.
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Apr 18
I Cloned a ₹20,000 Light Setup for Under ₹2,000 How I built a real-time TV backlight that syncs colors with what's on screen, for less than the cost of a decent dinner.
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Mar 22
A 2 p.m. Meeting Costs Me Five Hours I run on a maker's schedule and I keep forgetting it. What one badly-placed meeting actually takes from the day.
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Mar 15
Your Dream Retirement Costs 3,000 Euros. You Can Take It Now. 4 ideas from Tim Ferriss that killed my 'someday' list.
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Feb 22
I Did the Math on a Shawshank Escape. It Checks Out. The Monthly Rabbit Hole: a 2 a.m. calculation about a rock hammer, a prison wall, and why your big dreams are closer than they look.
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Jan 11
The Most Quoted Poem in English Is a Loneliness Manual Kipling's 'If—', a hundred years old, and taught a whole generation to suffer alone.
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Dec 07
I Shipped a Neovim Plugin in Lua. I Don't Know Lua. The actual workflow: use AI as the Lua specialist, yourself as the architect, and your engineering instincts to catch what the AI can't.
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Nov 02
I Did the Math on My Spotify Obsession. I'm Spotify's Problem. ★ A proper cost model for Indian subscribers — marginal royalty, fully-loaded overhead, break-even analysis, and what 100k+ minutes/year actually means for Spotify's P&L.
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Oct 05
A 67-Page Book Taught Me Why Smart People Talk Nonsense A liar still knows where the truth is. A bullshitter moved out and built their own.
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Sep 14
What a Rubik's Cube and Car Wax Have to Do With My Keyboard Setup A 12-year-old TVS Gold. One weekend. Two things that have no business being in a keyboard teardown.