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Writings

Musings, jumbled thoughts, commentary and thought experiments in no particular order.

Castles of Worry

November 13, 2025 • 4 min read

Gentleness clears the noise so we can dismantle the imaginary castles of worry and rebuild with intention.

Write more to think more

October 31, 2025 • 2 min read

In similar ways, I think ChatGPT is bringing the marginal cost of ‘thinking’ to zero, but it seems we’re losing the ‘what to think about and how’ also with it. Is that the price to pay?

Why I'm Interested in Cryptography, Quantum Computing and AI

October 30, 2025 • 5 min read

A personal exploration of how my journey through history, journalism, entrepreneurship, and Web3 led me to these three converging technologies.

On Elon's Algorithm

October 20, 2025 • 15 min read

Elon has a 5-step algorithm to run companies and build products. But what does it really do?

The Productivity Myth (ft. Vibe Coding)

October 10, 2025 • 3 min read

Lately, I've been building small apps using Cursor. It's been oddly satisfying. I guess the kids call it 'vibe coding,' but something strange started happening that I couldn't ignore.

Prediction Markets are Trending. Here's my Experience Building One.

September 25, 2025 • 8 min read

Late 2023 to early 2024, I spent 6 months trying to build a prediction markets product called Ariina. At its peak, we had about 600 users in beta. I failed miserably but here is what I learned about market discovery, creation, liquidity, resolution, and contextualization.

The Biggest Challenge Facing LLMs

September 19, 2025 • 4 min read

One thing that's common among recent statements by leads of all top AI labs is that they've used all the publicly available data for training frontier models. The next frontier is private, proprietary data.

Why I'm excited about Morpho on Base

September 3, 2025 • 5 min read

I recently learned that Coinbase lets you borrow money using Bitcoin as collateral (powered by Morpho). This led me down the Morpho rabbit hole and I was surprised to learn that there's a lot I didn't know about them.

Jevon's Paradox and FHE

August 21, 2025 • 3 min read

Jevon's paradox is an economic principle that states that when technological advancements increase the efficiency with which a resource is used, the overall consumption of that resource may increase rather than decrease. I believe we're witnessing something similar with FHE.

What I like and Don't like about Circle's new blockchain Arc

August 13, 2025 • 6 min read

I read the Arc litepaper so you don't have to. When my friend Sanket and his cracked team joined Circle a few months back, I knew something new was coming. Well, now Arc is here and here's what stands out for me.

State of FHE | 2025

August 9, 2025 • 7 min read

Imagine being able to compute on secrets, without ever seeing them. That's the magic of Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE), a cryptography technique that lets you process encrypted data as if it were unlocked. It's privacy's holy grail.