2003

It all began in 2003, the year I was born at 7:30 PM, in hospital room number 7. A strange coincidence, but a fitting start.

I was never the loud kid. I kept to myself, building things, breaking things, trying to understand how the world worked. Curiosity was my default mode.

I wanted to know why blood is red and not blue, so I cut my hand, collected it in a jar, and waited days for it to dry. My uncle bought cycles for me and my cousins; by the end of the first day, mine was in pieces because I needed to see what was inside. I couldn't put it back together. I'd burned the tires experimenting with kerosene. My mom still doesn't know about the fire that destroyed a pile of dry clothes that day.

This didn't stop at childhood. At 17, I opened up a Samsung smart TV to understand how OLED works and counted its layers. I cracked open my laptop to install my own operating system, broke it completely, then installed Kali Linux and taught myself hacking for fun.

My love for computers started in third grade. My school principal had a Windows XP machine, and I'd watch him play games on it like it was magic. He offered game time as a reward for good grades. I never scored high enough to earn it. So one day, I played anyway and got punished. That's when I knew I needed to understand these machines.

My uncle worked in IT. He had an HP laptop with glowing lights. It looked like a spellbook. He showed me what he did, and I decided right then I would become a computer science engineer.

I chose CS for my diploma, did well, worked part-time at a hardware shop, and was excited to dive into engineering. But engineering college was a trap. Outdated curriculum, professors teaching theory they didn't understand, nothing real to learn. So I stopped going to class, started sleeping through lectures until they removed me, and spent my time in the library instead.

I read Agatha Christie, then history, revolutions, entrepreneurship, game theory, quantum physics. I accumulated 25 backlog papers and wrote them all in my final semester just to clear out and stop paying ₹6K exam fees to a university teaching nothing.

During college, I ran a small business, traded crypto, started a running club, and learned boxing. Became a fighter. I tried different ideas, failed at most, and kept going. Never been an employee, but I've worked with a lot of great, smart people.

I'm really in pursuit of greatness; I want to be one of the greats. I am inspired by figures like Patrick Collison, Ivan Zhao, Elon Musk, Max Planck, Ernest Rutherford, Larry Ellison, Moxie Marlinspike, Brian Cox, Friedrich Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Albert Camus, Naval Ravikant, and Karl Marx. I love physics, science, technology, and literature.