Writing

Reflections from what I'm reading, building, and encountering across AI, health, and personal experiments.

• 15 Years, One Number

  Fifteen years of PCOS with no root cause — then one blood panel changed everything. Why I'm building Folia.

• No Team, No Laptop, No Internet After 5pm

  One library hour a day, ICPC Asia regionals alone against three-person teams, and a seat at IIIT Hyderabad. How I got here.

• He Was 80. His App Wrote Me a Poem.

  At a Stanford AI meetup full of demos, the person who stole the show was an 80-year-old builder.

• Yuka: The App That Tells You What's Really in Your Food

  The app that scores your groceries — and what happened when I scanned the "healthy" snacks in my kitchen.

• What Duolingo Teaches Us About Designing for the 7 Sins of Humanity

  9 million users hold a 365-day streak. A teardown of how Duolingo engineers commitment.

• tiat.place — SF's <3

  A night of drawing machines, looped mirrors, and robot karaoke — the SF art-tech scene that made me fall for the city again.

• 108 Surya Namaskars on the Equinox

  I misread a class description two weeks into yoga and ended up doing 108 sun salutations.

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