WORK

1. Madhavan and Sid-Warrier talk about work and stress. Insightful. Made me dig a bit deeper into work-life harmony.
   1. LINK
2. Paul Graham’s essay on How to Lose Time and Money 
3. A combination of 1&2 made me think deeply about the direction I want to go with my career.
4. Lenny’s podcast with Rahul Vohra of Superhuman
   1. Podcast LINK
   2. Product-Market fit engine
   3. Amazing story-telling. I loved the calm and serene demeanour.
5. Loved the user-onboarding series on this website
   1. UserOnboard
6. Real-time analytics. MySQL to ClickHouse with Debezium and Kafka.
   1. something interesting at work.
   2. LINK simple video I could find with a quick search
   3. LINK to Author’s Blog – yet to explore
7. Visibility over 4xx, 5xx errors on the platform
   1. LINK showing summary of HTTP status codes

SPORTS

Sheets

1. Enrolled in Academy of Strength this week.
   1. workouts have been amazing! I love the tribe feeling.
   2. Core, glutes and flexibility have been weak AF. strength as well. Optimistic for this year.
2. Skipped Frisbee on Thursday to recover from Ankle injury
3. BikeyVenky’s Insta POST on Baseline levels and peak levels
   1. While revisiting previous blogposts last week, came across this. Reiterated by Milan in the latest podcast
   2. Main Idea: have a baseline fitness and know the duration it might take to get to peak fitness.
   3. This is important now as I don’t want to spend the whole year doing cycling specific training but explore other things in life and only do specific training closer to the main events of the year usually Oct-Nov-Dec
4. Nithin Kamath POST on Weight-loss drugs
   1. LINK
5. Emotional Victor Campenaerts REACTS after Stage 18
   1. LINK

LIFE

Sheets

1. Reading is something I’ve consciously tried to spend more time doing.
   1. Mistborn is the current read. carrying Kindle along to work. Reading it during dinner. Also doing a 15-20min read before leaving back from office to home kinda resets my mood. Instead of doom-scrolling, lot more aware now
      1. reminded me of Ali’s video from 2021 – LINK
   2. Loved this article from Zerodha on starting a reading room
      1. LINK-1
      2. LINK-2
   3.  Planning to go to Cubbon Reads next week followed by hanging out at a cafe post. Let’s see
2. Ali Abdaal’s Spring Reset Workshop — LINK
   1. I started off the year with Ali’s Quarterly Goal planning. helped me reflect on things that I align with.
   2. Saturday was a workshop to assess how the quarter went. Better headspace of where I stand.
3. Use to take eye-drops before but lost the habits. Got them back again. Less dryness now 🙂
   1. LINK

ShoutOut

1. Vishu had a great year running the business. Called me yesterday sharing that he’s getting a Fortuner soon ❤️

Career

1. Work’s been hectic with limited bandwidth on the team. Releases, patches and bug-fixes
2. Go 1.24 release notes
   1. https://tip.golang.org/doc/go1.24
3. Went over couple of essays from Paul Graham after being referenced on Sam Altman’s video on writing
   1. blog: https://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html
4. Been following Pragmatic Engineer’s blog
5. Bloom Filter, SST Tables
   1. To-Do: code implementation

Fitness/Sports

1. S&C session at Academy of Strength on Monday
   1. group class. final circuit workout was the most brutal 5min I’ve ever had in gym.
2. Frisbee on Thursday.
   1. fun day – Instagram
   2. another Lateral Ankle Sprain. Slightly worried now as it’s the 2nd time in 3 weeks. got to focus on rehab and strengthening.
   3. One of beautiful evenings I’ve had. Hangout at Radhika’s place post-game after dinner at Pasta Street.
3. Inconsistent week with weight averaging at 79.95 kg
4. Loved watching the last 1 hour of Milan Sanremo 2025. Can’t wait to get back on the bike
   Binged on the previous editions after that.
   1. 2025: LINK
      1. MVDP being a beast and Pogi showing bravery
   2. 2024: LINK
      1. MVDP getting the break in control for JPs sprint
   3. 2023: LINK
      1. another of MVDP’s ‘biblical’ attack
   4. 2022: LINK
      1. Mohoric’s crazy descent

Life

1. Felt good taking the time off on Sunday, journaling and reflecting on the past week.
   Catching up on some reading and writing which I love doing but didn’t prioritise in this month.
2. Purchases
   1. air-purifier after being influenced by the whole Bryan Johnson fiasco 
   2. meditation mat as the floor was being too hard
3. Books
   1. started reading Mindset by Carol Dweck
   2. continuing Outlive by Peter Attia
   3. Adding some items into wishlist from Rohan Joshi’s
4. Blog
   1. got inspired by Pondiman and Niraj to resume blog
      1. https://pondiexpress.substack.com/
      2. https://nirajdugar.substack.com/
   2. Compilation of Essays from Aviral Bhatnagar on startups
      1. LinkedIn
   3. 40 lessons at 40 from Pathless Path’s author
      1. Link

Ideas/Thoughts

1. ‘Get some tact dude’.
   1.  Reflecting on last week, could introspect ego coming in and emotions riling up at work. Not often do I lose composure but happened. Need to correct this behaviour.
   2. Linkedin
2. Context Switching
   1. revisited this article again. though problem is discussed in the article, to-do is to compose diplomatic messages
   2. Linkedin
3. Is ‘keep doing forever’ the only acceptable ‘win condition’?
   1. Linkedin
4. What actions now will free up my time further?
5. With marriage and mid-career in the horizon, thinking about things that should be in auto-pilot before so that I can auto-pilot basics while focussing attention on bigger challenges
   1. have fitness, diet and habits in sustenance
   2. ‘pay my debts’ w.r.t tech

Others

1. Binged on Solo-Levelling Season-1 and Season-2 and then went to finish the Manga
   1. Link

Photos

I started writing on this blog since end of 2016. It’s something I really want to do but end up not allocating enough time to it.
Published a total of 52 articles so far. Being in college definitely help 😄

• 2025: 1
• 2024: 0
• 2023: 2
• 2022: 6
• 2020: 5
• 2019: 2
• 2018: 12
• 2017: 17
• 2016: 1

Below are some unfinished drafts over the years which I intend to post even if the thoughts aren’t as clear as back then.

2025

• Ultimate Frisbee: Current Favourite Sport An attempt at running and failing
• Thoughts on taking a break from cycling
• Trek
  • 7 day Sandakphu trek

2024

• 2024: Reflecting on what feels like the worst year I’ve ever had
• 2024: Books, Blogs and more
• Rollercoaster of a Quarter from Jan-March
• Tour of Thekkady
• National Championships
• Race Reports
  • HCL Cyclothon Hyderabad Edition
  • Telangana State Championships’2024
  • Nandi Epic
  • Namma Nandi
  • BBCH Hasan Express

2023

• 2023: Reflecting on what feels like the best year I’ve ever had
• 2023: Books, Blogs and more
• What went into becoming the Telangana State Champion
• Race Reports
  • Telangana State Championships’2023
  • BBCH Races
  • BAR races
• Bananthimari trek

2022

• An attempt at Getting Shredded
• 2022: Books, Blogs and more
• RaceReports
  • Telangana State Championships’2022
• Trek
  • Skandagiri
  • Mulki

2021

• MNC -> Startup: Moving from ADP after 3 years to MyYogaTeacher
• Moving to Bangalore after 25 years of staying at parents
• RaceReports
  • BAR GivingBack Duathlon

2020

• An attempt at Bulking
• RaceReports

2019

• RaceReports
  • 1200km Paris Brest Paris
  • 1000km Brevet
  • Hyderabad Racing Circuit

2018

• RaceReports
  • 42km Airtel Hyderabad Marathon
  • 42km run to college

2017

• RaceReports
  • 21km PurpleRun
  • 42km biking to college

Resources

• Internet Blogs
• Blogs from people I personally know
• Fiction Books
• Non-Fiction Books