Now

Inspired by Derek Siver's /now movement.

January, 2025

Life

• Currently engineering impactful & interesting products at CRED. 👨‍💻
• Socializing in all new ways. Finding time for friends, making time for new ones.
• Feeling good being back in Bangalore - never knew I will miss the city, but here I am. Life is boring and repetitive, but ironically, it's filled with energy (you know what I mean?).

Learning

I want learnings to be a part of life, but, without invading the fun. The list of things I am currently up to:

• Absorbing concepts and wisdoms about building better systems from the following books and sources.
  • Designing Distributed Systems
  • Arpit Bhayani's blogs and newsletter.
  • And the system design bible (always in the list), Designing Data-Intensive Applications
• Other books that I am reading include:
  • It Didn't Start with You.
  • The 80/20 Principle
  • 1984
  • Homo Deus

Travel

I try to travel and do short trips and discover places nearby, wherever I am living. But there are also some special places that I want to go to since time immemorial.

• Just finished "South Circuit". This was a trip I wanted to do since a very long time and as I finally got my bike, had to make this a reality. The special thing about it was the long bike ride (2000+ kilometers), hitting various beautiful South Indian spots and ending the new year on a high note. You can view the highlight of the trip on Instagram for now until it's available on Imprints.
• Next up is Leh with friends, let's see if it becomes a reality!
• Want to see snowfall at the end of 2025 in some Himalayan village.
• New Zealand is stuck inside my head now. The natural landscapes that it offers are beautiful. I just dream of driving in a car across New Zealand now and hope to make this a reality soon. 🇳🇿

What else?

• Taking time to get bored. Getting comfortable with it.
• Eating good food. It's so easy to miss out on such a simple thing, but feeling great that body doesn't crave the bad food as much now.
• Working out regularly, have made it a part of life. 🏋️‍♂️

Checkout the blogs that I write to express my thoughts about tech and "other" important stuff here.