notes to self
Interesting resources and half-formed thoughts worth revisiting - not a syllabus, just a shelf.
Back to portfolioMy second brain
Most of this lives in tabs and bookmarks. The point is not to finish everything - it is to keep a few north stars for how to think about learning, building, and staying curious when the feed gets loud.
- talkJoe Rogan Experience #1309 - Naval Ravikant
- courseNeural Networks - 3Blue1Brown
- courseNeural Networks: Zero to Hero - Andrej Karpathy
- courseBuild an LLM from Scratch - Sebastian Raschka
- filmShip of Theseus - full feature film
- talk'There's no such thing as a miracle' - Richard Feynman's advice to students
- talkThe mindset of a winner - Kobe Bryant on champions
- bookThe Almanack of Naval Ravikant
- bookThe Anthology of Balaji
- bookThe Book of Clarity - Paras Chopra
Things I care about
Questions that keep me awake. Not all of them have answers yet - but the right question is half the battle.
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Why India still doesn't have its own deeply integrated intelligence + infrastructure software company like Palantir despite having insane engineering talent.
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Why Indian builders often need foreign validation before people take them seriously.
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Why most students are trained to become employees instead of system builders.
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Why healthcare systems are still reactive instead of predictive.
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Why civic complaints still disappear into bureaucracy instead of becoming trackable operational workflows.
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Why AI in India is mostly positioned as content generation instead of infrastructure, reasoning, and public systems.
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Why are cardiovascular diseases still detected so late despite modern technology?
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Why does every large-scale solution eventually become politically polarized?
i love
Music that shapes how I think. Spinning vinyl - literally and figuratively.
cj walks
sometimes you just gotta walk it off.