2003

It all began in 2003, the year I was born, at 7:30 p.m. in a hospital. I was a very curious person from childhood. I did a lot of naughty things. I was mostly isolated from everyone around me. People didn't talk to me much or like to play with me. Maybe that isolation made me want to do something with my life.

My uncle bought me a cycle. On the same day, I opened it apart to see how it worked. My mom used to buy me toys, and I would open them too. I wanted to see what was inside and how everything worked. Even when my dad bought a new Samsung TV, I opened it and started looking at everything inside. I wanted to create something. I wanted to build something from childhood. I didn't know why. I just liked building things.

I also had some very funny thoughts as a child. I wanted to understand why I was here. Sometimes, I thought I was living on the Moon. I thought my future self was on the Moon, watching me. I believed the Moon was following me because my future self was there. It sounds very funny now, but I still think about it sometimes. Why did I believe my future self was on the Moon? I don't know. I was just very curious.

And then I started falling in love with computers. My principal had an XP computer in his office. Only a few students were allowed to use it, mostly the students who scored very good marks. I wanted to play on that computer, so I somehow got into the principal's office and started using it. My principal found out and beat me up. But I was still excited. I wanted to understand how the computer worked. It felt innovative and magical to me.

My uncles were also connected to the computer science field and were very good with technology. I wanted to understand what they were doing.

When I was around 15, I bought my first few books. One was a Bharatiyar book, and another was about Thomas Edison. They were old books, but I loved them. When I was 16 or 17, I started reading my auntie's books. She was into economics. I read A History of Economic Thought and some other books. After my 18th birthday, I started buying books online and reading a lot more.

I never liked motivation books. Honestly, they really, really, really suck. People read Atomic Habits and this and that. I never connected with those books. I think you should try literature and different perspectives. That's when I got into Kafka, Albert Camus, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Schopenhauer. Friedrich Nietzsche was just wow.

I also started reading about scientists and their perspectives. I was very interested in Neil deGrasse Tyson, Fritz Zwicky, Ptolemy, Hermann and many others. There were so many, and I have forgotten a few names. I was curious about how these people thought.

In college, I didn't really study my college subjects much. I studied books. I read about how life works and started seeing things from different perspectives. I didn't like sitting in class. Most of the time, I slept or left the class. But I didn't want to trouble anyone. I mostly escaped from people and spent time by myself. I read books, some history, literature, economics, and different kinds of things. And it was good.

During this time, I also started entrepreneurship. I started a running club with a few friends. I learned boxing with them too. My life started improving a lot. I wanted to improve my life. I didn't want to be in a normal job.

But I never stopped my computer science journey. After college, real freedom started. I had to understand what I should do next. I didn't want to go for a job, even though I told everyone that I would. I wanted something different in my life. I took a break for around three to four months and started getting my life back together.

And that's where my life became very interesting. I started working on many open-source projects. I became a founding engineer at a company. Later, I became the founder of Sleepfix.ai and then Head of Tech at Bezgofresh.

I love working with people who have a big vision and want to build together. No egos. A lot of brainstorming. People who are really into solving problems, good at what they do, and open-minded.

I had a lot of good learning, memories, and knowledge from those experiences.