Now

As a student, I tried too hard to be a student!
As an employee, I tried too hard to be an employee!
As an entrepreneur - repeat!

Somewhere in that journey of trying too hard all the time, life taught me few lessons.

That there is no point in trying too hard to prove yourself - you only need to accept yourself. All that running, striving and achieving needs to come from within.

Society, authority figures, peers, heck, even people you hardly know can hijack that inner voice. I'm someone in the process of reclaiming life from voices that aren't mine. I find it liberating, allowing me to pursue things without burden.

Work / Past

Worked in tech from 2003-11: BPM, databases, data warehousing, analytics. Quit in 2011 and founded Tapprs, a photography equipment rental business in Bangalore. Ran it profitably for a few years, delegated it to a team - it survives on its own, even to this day. These days, I'm exploring ideas that allow me to be rootless.

Other

I like to read and write. Money and work show up a lot in the writing. So do quieter questions about life. I sometimes tinker with tech and build apps, these days using AI. I no longer write about my other interests here - travel and photography.