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Ennai Konjam Mazhaiyaai — Kaakha Kaakha. Harris Jayaraj. The kind of music that makes you believe you are already the person you are trying to become.
A busy street somewhere in Bangalore, 2003. A second-hand Maruti Suzuki, number plate GGG787. A girl who was about to find out everything.
Fear overtaken by excitement. The specific excitement of someone who has done the theory and is now committed to the practical, regardless of consequences.
Cars · First Principles
Checks & Balances
I Never Went to Driving School
On gear ratios, a bicycle, a ₹20,000 Maruti Suzuki, and what first principles thinking actually costs you in practice.
Maari Kannu — from the film A, starring Upendra. Kannada cinema at its most atmospheric. A song that understood something about longing and arrival simultaneously — which is exactly the mood of a college student in Hubli who could see something coming that his city hadn't noticed yet.
Hubli, Karnataka, late 1990s. A house that was also an office. A bar called Three Aces that was also a boardroom. A computer assembled from parts that friends donated. A business that existed before anyone gave it permission.
Hungry. Quietly certain. The particular energy of someone operating slightly ahead of the world around them and finding it more natural than strange.
Technology · Art of Creating
Checks & Balances
The Bar That Was a Boardroom
On assembling a computer from borrowed parts, closing deals in a cabin inside a Hubli bar, and the first time I understood that a business is simply a problem you decided to solve before anyone else did.
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