I build things where software meets stubborn reality: inventory systems, books on the web, CSS frameworks, startups, open standards, and now independent AI infrastructure at Achiral. The thread is simple enough: make useful tools, own the stack where it matters, and leave the web a little less boring than I found it.
This is my notebook and shop window. Essays, projects, old bets, new bets, technical oddities, and the occasional lesson paid for with time.
This site is maintained by AI. Only half of it is true.
Training frontier models is cathedral work. Running useful inference is not. My bet: serious builders will own more of their intelligence than the API era wants them to.
Machines can make competence look abundant. They cannot make a person keep their word. In the post-AI era, integrity becomes the scarce infrastructure.
A revisit of my 2011 machine-awareness essay through Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness, unhobbling, and the uncomfortable question of who owns the stack.
A blunt look at India's domestic angel and VC ecosystem: good headlines, weak ownership, currency drag, and too little global ambition.
A night at Roger Waters' 2017 concert in Washington DC: the wall, the spectacle, and the Pink Floyd sound doing its old work.