Archive.

Older posts kept online but pulled out of the main listing, topic pages, and search.

Paying Bills Without Giving Away Your Inbox

A small side project for generating UPI IDs to pay credit card bills, without handing over inbox access to a fintech app. 3 min read

The Finite State Machine of Spending: Debugging Your Financial Source Code

Using the Finite State Machine model from computer science to debug impulse spending and write cleaner financial logic. 6 min read

Your Financial Operating System is Due for an Update

Stop budgeting like a punishment. Here's how I redesigned my financial life as a system I actually want to live inside. 7 min read

Why Your "Read Later" List is Where Ideas Go to Die (And How to Fix It)

The 'Read Later' list is a graveyard of good intentions. Here's how to switch from digital hoarding to digital gardening. 5 min read

The Claude Learning Curve I Cracked (So You Don't Have To)

The prompting techniques that actually worked: variable-based prompts, the CLEAR method, and how to fix Claude's corporate-robot voice. 5 min read

Bramhatal Trek Experience: Why This 4-Day Trek is Worth It

A day-by-day account of the Bramhatal winter trek in Uttarakhand: frozen lakes, Mt Trishul views, and what it feels like at 12,250 feet. 4 min read

I Trained an AI on 100 Top Self-Help Books

What I found after training a custom AI on 100 self-help books: universal principles, dangerous patterns, and why context beats raw wisdom. 5 min read

The Automation Revolution: How AI Agents Are Quietly Stealing Your To-Do List

AI agents are quietly automating away the mundane. What that means for productivity, autonomy, and what we're actually optimizing for. 4 min read

Can AI Write SEO Content That Ranks?

An honest breakdown of where AI-written SEO content succeeds, fails, and where humans still have the edge. 5 min read