About

As I grew up in life, about me became more of sharing my CV and not myself holistically. This is my hive where I share my thoughts and experiences with the world. In a programmers’ style, this is my hello world post to the world.

About me Link to heading

I am an aspiring polymath with a passion for learning, philosophy, martial arts, self-sufficiency, nation building and solving hard problems.

Technology building Link to heading

I have built medical equipments used in surgical and for critical life support, SAAS applications for health-tech startups.

I am now more curious about building AI agents and emboided intelligence to solve real world problems.

My philosophical musing Link to heading

As I age, my curiosity dawned on one single question—what’s the purpose of life, silencing the standard prescriptions offered by our societies? Our world provides near-infinite possibilities of experiences, but given the finiteness of my existence, I want to maximize my time and have a life well-lived authentically.

Pursuing this idea and observing my actions and experiences, the hidden motive behind any experience is the pursuit of happiness (Other names include satisfaction, dopamine spike, feeling good, feeling fulfilled, contentment, etc.). Any external action and experience is the path through which I assume I would reach this destination called happiness.

The straightforward path to reaching happiness is to see what brings others happiness and what society broadcasts as happiness. Most likely, it is an external stimulus from the world causing happiness to be generated internally. Once generated, it is not long-lasting but a fleeting experience. I jacked up the external stimuli if I wanted to generate more happiness on demand.

However, with more external stimuli and frequency of activation, the signaling required to generate happiness increased and I became more and more numb to the stimuli which required detox more like a dopamine detox from the external stimuli. This got me to control my external world more and more to generate a diminishing amount of fleeting happiness.

Though external stimuli from the world seem easy initially and a straightforward option to seek happiness, with time, the return on investment plateaus, causing more frustration and dissatisfaction.

In this mindless chase for happiness came a random thought “If happiness is internally generated, can’t it be generated on demand irrespective of the external world?”.

If a life well-lived is maximizing happiness, then the base criteria should be having the ability to generate happiness irrespective of the external stimuli. This is easier said than done given the constant nudges by society through endless advertising, herd mentality, and endless noise/distraction from social media to seek happiness from external stimuli.

Through evolution we as humans seek safety and comfort by being part of a group, given the majority is heavily influenced by advertising and virtue signaling through social media, it is hard to break out of the comfort zone and find new ways to generate happiness.

Fighting the natural tendencies within me and pursuing the pathways to gain the ability to generate happiness on demand became my side-project in most of my 20s. This got me to explore philosophy from various cultures and traditions starting from Western philosophy to Eastern philosophy.

I felt at home with yogic philosophy mainly from this book - Yoga Sutras by Patanjali, a brilliant mind. This book starts with this sentence loosely translated to English - “Now, yoga begins.”

This to me means the pursuit of going all around the world and seeking happiness in different ways, finally reaching yoga as the pathway and then yoga begins.

As I head to my 30s, I wish to live consciously and intentionally, maximizing the pursuit of happiness as my main musing. Right now, I am pursuing the hybrid approach of consciously seeking external stimuli to generate happiness along with building the capacity of self-sufficiency through the practice of yoga and meditation.

My favorite quotes Link to heading

• “If You’re So Smart, Why Aren’t You Happy?”
• “The three big ones in life are wealth, health, and happiness. We pursue them in that order, but their importance is reverse.”