Blog
2026
A berimbolo takes about four seconds. Getting a machine to see whose foot is whose is taking a lot longer.
I came home to Bangalore on purpose. Lately it feels like the city is telling me to leave.
Quitting your job and starting a business are two very different risks. I learned that the hard way.
Kahneman wrote about thinking fast and slow. I went looking for whether anyone had studied seeing fast and slow - and it sent me down a rabbit hole about what our models actually see.
My paper got accepted. The part I'm proudest of is the section about where it falls short.
Everyone asks how it feels to be married. I only have one answer.
My mother likes to say I never lost a pencil or an eraser in twelve years of school. I think that explains most of me.
Most of the sentences in my first paper weren't written by me. Every claim in it was.
Every model sees from somewhere. I'd rather it told me where it's standing.
The best thing about launching Kakashi was the coaches telling me exactly where it was wrong.
Everyone laughed at the boxing robots. I was watching their feet.
The model told me a beautiful story about the match. It just wasn't the match I'd watched.
2025
I fell back in love with coding the year everyone said coding was over.
Our smartest AIs have the memory of a goldfish. That's a bigger problem than it sounds.
I've been showing up to small rooms with loud bands since 2012. It's the best education I never paid for.
Communities are the real engines of progress...
Order -> chaos -> order again...
Design games where everyone can win.
I watched the most entertaining jiu-jitsu match ever made and couldn't keep up. So I asked a machine to try.
A picture says a thousand words. The problem is working out which thousand.
Five fights, no nerves. Somebody said I was playing like Rahul Dravid, and I'll take it.
Most people can't write a good prompt to save their lives, but hand them a marker and they'll draw you the whole idea.
2024
I don't remember my first win. I remember the loss right after it.
Imagine playing chess where you are the pieces, the board keeps tilting, and nobody waits for your turn.
You can't pitch your way out of side control.
This isn't my first year off. The last one taught me that life isn't a race.
2023
Two and a bit years of my life fit into one sentence now. That's a strange thing to look at.
For a while there, we were making more money than the value we were providing. I've been sitting with that.
Somewhere around the twentieth kickoff call, I realised I could finish the brand's sentences for them.
The best resume I ever received was one line in a DM: "I can build anything in Solidity."
2022
When the market stops pretending, you find out which parts of your work were real.
The best answer to "what is an NFT?" turned out to be: click here.
Every brand asks what the utility is. The better question is whether they'll still be around to deliver it.
I own a copy of The Dark Side of the Moon. I don't own a single song on my phone. That difference is why I'm in crypto.
2021
Nobody I knew had done this before me. That's exactly why I wanted to come back and make it easier for the next person.
Everyone I asked told me not to do it. It took me eight months to realise I was asking the wrong people.