Blog & Reading

Notes, essays, and things I've been reading.

Cricket

28 March 2026

From Haryana state U-16 to captaining Imperial.

AI + Human = Better Than Either Alone

27 March 2026

How harness engineering beat state-of-the-art on an NLP competition.

India AI Summit 2026

15 February 2026

Conversations from the India AI Summit in New Delhi. February 2026.

Hello, World

10 October 2025

First post. Why I'm building this site.

Steve Jobs

Walter Isaacson

The Almanack of Naval Ravikant

Eric Jorgenson

The Anthology of Balaji

Balaji Srinivasan

The Network State

Balaji Srinivasan

Indistractable

Nir Eyal

The Sovereign Individual

James Dale Davidson & Lord William Rees-Mogg

Skin in the Game

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Ikigai

Héctor García & Francesc Miralles

Zero to One

Peter Thiel

Deep Learning

Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio & Aaron Courville

Life Force

Tony Robbins

Can't Hurt Me

David Goggins

Tools of Titans

Tim Ferriss

Elon Musk

Ashlee Vance

Designing Data-Intensive Applications

Martin Kleppmann

Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models ↗

Kaplan et al.

Empirical scaling laws that shaped how we think about training large language models. Performance scales predictably with compute, data, and parameters.

Meta-Harness: End-to-End Optimization of Model Harnesses

Research paper

Formalises harness engineering. The scaffolding around models matters as much as the models themselves.