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2026

Leg Spaghetti →[Oct 14, 2026][research]

A berimbolo takes about four seconds. Getting a machine to see whose foot is whose is taking a lot longer.

My City Is Killing Me →[Oct 12, 2026][life]

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.

Seeing, Fast and Slow →[Sep 27, 2026][research]

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.

Chasing What Is True →[Jul 26, 2026][research]

My paper got accepted. The part I'm proudest of is the section about where it falls short.

Happiest I've Ever Been →[Jul 15, 2026][life]

Everyone asks how it feels to be married. I only have one answer.

Analog →[Jun 21, 2026][life]

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.

Vibe Researching →[May 31, 2026][research]

Most of the sentences in my first paper weren't written by me. Every claim in it was.

Legible Partiality →[Apr 26, 2026][research]

Every model sees from somewhere. I'd rather it told me where it's standing.

Shipping Kakashi →[Mar 15, 2026][work]

The best thing about launching Kakashi was the coaches telling me exactly where it was wrong.

Watching Robots Box →[Feb 15, 2026][research]

Everyone laughed at the boxing robots. I was watching their feet.

Fluent Is Not Faithful →[Jan 18, 2026][research]

The model told me a beautiful story about the match. It just wasn't the match I'd watched.

2025

Architect in the Loop →[Dec 14, 2025][work]

I fell back in love with coding the year everyone said coding was over.

A Machine in a Man's World →[Oct 19, 2025][research]

Our smartest AIs have the memory of a goldfish. That's a bigger problem than it sounds.

The Scene →[Sep 21, 2025][life]

I've been showing up to small rooms with loud bands since 2012. It's the best education I never paid for.

Meditations on Community →[Aug 10, 2025][life]

Communities are the real engines of progress...

Entropy and Order →[Jul 28, 2025][life]

Order -> chaos -> order again...

Positive-Sum Systems →[Jul 15, 2025][work]

Design games where everyone can win.

A Coach That Watches →[Jun 22, 2025][research]

I watched the most entertaining jiu-jitsu match ever made and couldn't keep up. So I asked a machine to try.

The Trouble with Drawings →[May 25, 2025][work]

A picture says a thousand words. The problem is working out which thousand.

The Wall →[Apr 13, 2025][life]

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

A Sport for Life →[Dec 29, 2024][life]

I don't remember my first win. I remember the loss right after it.

Chess in Four Dimensions →[Aug 18, 2024][life]

Imagine playing chess where you are the pieces, the board keeps tilting, and nobody waits for your turn.

Six Hours a Day →[Apr 21, 2024][life]

You can't pitch your way out of side control.

The Year Off →[Jan 21, 2024][life]

This isn't my first year off. The last one taught me that life isn't a race.

2023

Handing It Over →[Dec 17, 2023][work]

Two and a bit years of my life fit into one sentence now. That's a strange thing to look at.

When to Stop Playing →[Sep 10, 2023][work]

For a while there, we were making more money than the value we were providing. I've been sitting with that.

Productization →[May 28, 2023][work]

Somewhere around the twentieth kickoff call, I realised I could finish the brand's sentences for them.

Hire the Hungry →[Feb 19, 2023][work]

The best resume I ever received was one line in a DM: "I can build anything in Solidity."

2022

Building in the Cold →[Nov 27, 2022][work]

When the market stops pretending, you find out which parts of your work were real.

One Click →[Aug 21, 2022][work]

The best answer to "what is an NFT?" turned out to be: click here.

Utility Is a Promise →[May 15, 2022][work]

Every brand asks what the utility is. The better question is whether they'll still be around to deliver it.

Sovereignty →[Feb 20, 2022][work]

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

Coming Home to Build →[Dec 5, 2021][work]

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.

Taking the Leap →[Sep 12, 2021][work]

Everyone I asked told me not to do it. It took me eight months to realise I was asking the wrong people.

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