The longer answer
If we end up working together, this is the version of me you're getting.
Bengaluru. Building danadone, with mineOS running quietly underneath. Husband to Prathyusha, father to Agasthya. The homepage is the short answer; this page exists for when you need a longer one before reaching out.
I taught for six years at Insights IAS in Bengaluru — Indian economy, public administration, current affairs. Roughly ten thousand UPSC aspirants moved through those rooms. I sat the exam five times myself, cleared Prelims every time, never cleared Mains. That's the credential I lead with on this site, because it's the one that taught me the most: you can be inside a system, watch it work, watch it fail, and still believe the failure is your fault long after the system has stopped earning the benefit of the doubt.
The conclusion I came out of the classroom with is on the positions page: government exam prep is where Indian talent goes to die. I'm now on the other side of that — building, hiring, writing under my own name — and trying to help redirect some of that hunger toward the right risks.
Around the side of all that, I ran a Telegram channel for a few years on learning-science, behavioral systems, and contrarian wisdom. Four hundred-odd posts, a few thousand subscribers. That was the writing apprenticeship. The site you're on is what comes after.
A few shapes I tend to operate from.
None of these collapse into the others. Which one is in front depends on the day and the room.
i. I ship under my real name. Steadily, not in spurts. The credentials worth having are the ones I can point at on the open internet.
ii. Most of the work runs through agents now. The unit isn't a team — it's me plus a directed swarm, doing what a small company used to.
iii. My brain is non-linear. It costs me something — abandoned projects, calendar fights, mistaking interest for importance. It also gives me edges most neurotypical founders don't have. I treat the shape as the operating mode.
iv. Prathyusha and Agasthya come first. The family stays durable; everything else is a barbell risk leg around that core.
v. I write a lot of things down. The game is decades, not quarters; compounding only works when nothing leaks.
vi. A product, a company, a day, a life — I think the same way about all of them. Same craft, different scale.
The edge, not the deficit.
I have ADHD. I treat it as the operating shape, not as a thing to be cured into a different shape. The cost is real — I have spent years fighting the calendar, dropping projects three-quarters of the way through, mistaking interest for importance. The benefit is also real — capture-first thinking, non-linear connections, comfort with rotation, an unusually high tolerance for ambiguity in early-stage work.
The way I work with it: sleep, exercise, nutrition, capture, ritual — in that order. Order itself is content. Meds when required, only to the extent required. mineOS is the externalised half of the system: the second self that does the things I can't activate my way into starting.
Antifragile core.
My wife Prathyusha runs a separate professional brand of her own; that one is hers, not mine, and it stays off this page. Our son Agasthya is two. The family operates as the part of life that has to stay durable across decades — fatigue-resistant, geography-flexible, capable of absorbing the kinds of risk that the rest of the work takes on.
The triad I'm trying to earn, not buy: a healthy, fit body; a calm mind; a house full of love. None of those three is for sale. If a piece of the work — a deal, a deadline, a CTA on a website — competes with the triad, the triad wins.
Multiple identities, in parallel.
Citizen of the world. Indian — a little deeper, probably because of patriotism-fueled movies and the air I grew up in. Bangalorean. Telugu-speaking. Kannada-speaking. None of these stack. They sit beside each other. The brand is a complex mix of all of them, and I don't think it needs to be simpler than that.
English, Telugu, Kannada, Hindi. Agasthya will hear all four growing up.
Eleven values, in sentences.
This is the filter every interesting decision passes through. Not all of them fire on every call; one or two usually pull the answer.
Permissionless — no gatekeepers between intent and action. Frictionless — capture as you go, never categorise before speaking. Proactive — surface the next move; don't wait to be asked. Invisible — outcome-focused; the mechanics disappear. Antifragile — failures become patterns become safeguards. Modular — composable primitives over monoliths. Iterable — ship small, observe, iterate. Speed — fast iterations, generally fast in life. Net-positive giver — every interaction leaves the other side better. Ambitious — default to the bigger move; non-linear, exponential growth. Non-linear — leverage forms compound; the right move is rarely the average move.
Long-term games with long-term people, under my real name. Compounding leverage from labor through capital, code, media, and agents. A family that stays the antifragile core. A body, a mind, and a home that aren't for sale. If any of that becomes a name worth knowing, that's a by-product — not the goal.