“We are shaped by stories and systems. These are the ones that shaped me.”
A personal index of thinkers, systems, and essays that inform how I build — from product design and system trust to dharma and decentralization.
The Network State – Balaji Srinivasan
A blueprint for future societies and verifiable governance.
Designing Calm Technology – Amber Case
Tech that respects attention and disappears when not needed.
Patterns of Distributed Systems – Martin Fowler
A practical guide to building resilient, fault-tolerant systems.
Hyperledger Fabric
Industrial-strength blockchain architecture for permissioned networks.
Concrete Problems in AI Safety – DeepMind/OpenAI
Key concerns in alignment, safety, and control.
The Case for Verifiability – Vitalik Buterin
A look into trustable systems over centralized guarantees.
ZKPs & Privacy – zkProof.org
Zero-knowledge proofs and the future of cryptographic integrity.
Finite and Infinite Games – James Carse
Strategy, purpose, and how to play the long game.
The Gervais Principle – Venkatesh Rao
A savage breakdown of office politics and emergent systems.
Shape Up – Basecamp
How to build with clarity, scope, and constraints.
Intercom Product Principles
Practical ethos behind fast, empathic product teams.
Being Different – Rajiv Malhotra
Civilizational perspective on why dharmic systems matter.
Swarajya Magazine
Essays at the intersection of tradition, policy, and selfhood.
Indic Academy
A platform advancing dharmic thinking and scholarship.
Neti Neti – “Not This, Not That”
A Vedic way of knowing — via negation and discernment.
The Fermi Paradox – Tim Urban
Big questions, bigger silences.
Spaceship Earth – Buckminster Fuller
Stewardship thinking for a planetary system.
Operating Systems as Civilizations – Notion
Layers of computation as social scaffolds.