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Three years of following the cost curve lands on one industry.

I have screened a lot of engineering resumes as a CTO, and most projects are the same five: Titanic, MNIST, a spam classifier, house-price prediction, a chatbot.

Three years of a daily habit pairing physical training with financial journaling.

Since last year, I’ve completely transformed how I work by integrating AI tools into my

Five UX failure modes that kill journaling apps before the habit forms.

Most second-brain tools assume the cloud.

I am building feaws to make my trading transparent.

Indian crypto retail behaves measurably differently from US retail across position size, holding period, leverage tolerance, and venue preference.

Day one of a journaling app: zero entries, zero history, nothing to show.

Polymarket consensus on 'BTC above $X by date Y' sometimes leads spot price by 24-48 hours.

A journal entry is only as honest as the interface lets it be.

For two years I argued the feeling of AI speed had come apart from the fact of it, from watching my own teams.

The first 30 seconds after a 3% spot move on BTC, second by second.

The basis trade is mechanically simple.

AI/ML interview preparation advice is still mostly the pre-2023 quiz with a few LLM buzzwords bolted on.

When I first noticed stablecoins back in 2020, they felt like a side

A USDT-margined BTC perp on an Indian exchange exposes the trader to two risks: BTC's price and USDT's stability.

Most traders hide their losses.

If you're still letting FOMO control your trades, maybe the problem isn't the market—maybe it'

There are a thousand Go microservices boilerplates.

DeepSeek shipped a frontier-grade reasoning model with open weights and a fraction of the assumed cost, and the market briefly lost its mind.

Same trade, same position, two different times of day.

A daily streak post on x.com — walk, push-ups, plank, a small SIP, a few pages of a book.

The formula, the cadence, where the money actually goes, and how to read funding as a regime indicator.

Two and a half years after the 1% TDS came into force, the Indian Web3 ecosystem has consolidated around a different shape.

Retail's order takes 200ms.

The AI/ML job market in India for freshers did not get bigger or smaller in any simple way this year.

What actually happens between an order hitting the gateway and a fill landing on the wire.

Eight hundred physical books on shelves I designed.

Seven years after a TEDx talk on building better software, the principles are intact and the examples are unrecognisable.

Dalbar's 2014 study found the average mutual fund investor underperformed the fund itself by 7.25%.

Western commentary called 2022-2024 the 'crypto winter' driven by macro and the FTX collapse.

The 1% TDS was designed to kill speculation.

Most retail traders have heard 'size your positions properly.'

Three crypto bull markets later, the mistakes have not changed shape.

A year after ChatGPT, the resumes crossing my desk have changed and most of them changed in the same wrong direction.

The March 2023 gazette that brought VDAs under PMLA was the largest structural change to Indian crypto since the 2020 court reversal.

Building a crypto exchange in India during 2018-2020 cost a specific tax that the 2021 cohort did not pay.

GPT-4 shipped a month ago and a thousand startups became a text box in front of someone else's model.

A thread on Indian Budget for the financia

Ten days ago Sam Altman tweeted a link to ChatGPT and the timeline decided it was a chatbot.

The lists of data science interview questions floating around India optimise for the wrong round.

Six years after the Google Indic Hackathon, the project we built is gone.

Four years of regulatory whiplash, in dates.

Decoupling a few queries about the Web3 eco system as simple as possible based on the attempt of deploying a couple of dApps as a hobby…

Forty-five topics.

Most guides to becoming an ML engineer in India are a list of courses and a promise.

I was having a casual chat with a friend who is a Group Manager at one of the India’s

A bucket list is decoration.

SDP — Session Description Protocol, RFC 4566 — is the negotiation language of WebRTC.