What I’m Doing NOW

This is a Now page and is inspiired by one of my favorite author, Derek Siver’s [Now page]

Updated March 1st 2026, from Mumbai, India where summer is just beginning and the AQI is a pleasant 36 ppb. (Yes, I am more troubled by the stuff I breathe than the warmth of my skin).

Health

• I’ve started running – away from my problems. Nah, that’s 2020’s me. Now I run into them head on. Lot of fun, would recommend. But no, I am actually running, like 5K per week. Well, almost every other week. I want to make this a regular thing but that’s where I’m at right now.

Relationships

• I’ve been meeting my friends and family more. I think I did more dinners with loved ones in the last 6 months than I have done in the last 3 years.

Love

• I’ve found the love of my life. She is soo sweet. I thank my stars everyday for the unusual way in which our paths crossed. Hon, if you are reading this you should know that I love you. I love you more than I love a ribeye steak and that’s saying something.

Socials

• I’m on Instagram now – I recently started posting on instagram after collecting an iPhone full of photos from 3 trips abroad. I mean, its better off on Meta servers than my paid iCloud storage amiright?!

Work

• I’m currently working on a lot of Agentic AI assisted applications. I mean who isn’t, I get it, but my work focuses more on their optimization and production ready deployment.

Tech

• I finally setup my Macbook M4. The 24 gigs of ram is really something I never thought I’d need but to know that it exists is a huge peace of mind on long running tasks or heavy work days.
• I also got a iPhone 17 Pro Max and it’s already got a chipped corner. Something something clumsy hands…
• Not exactly tech but my girlfriend got me a pair of white All Birds shoes and I must say these are the most comfortable pair of outdoor-socks I’ve ever worn. God bless the hands that made these shoes. The comfort they offer is simply unmatched.

Learning

• I’m a big fan of books shared on Hacker News. Someone even made a “Book Tracker” for books mentioned in the comments. I try reading one book from that list once every month.
• This month’s reading is – In God’s Hands by Desmond Tutu. I’ve always found faith to be an alluring topic. This book provides a window into the mind of a person who’s very life is his faith – soo very interesting, don’t you think?!
• Another fun read for this year is Bombay Balchao by Jane Borges – a sneak peak into the everyday happenings of typical Goan catholic families in Bombay.

Food

• After returning from Europe I am trying to dedicate myself to little less gastronomic / salad heavy diet but it’s proving more difficult than I thought. That being said I’ve successfully switched to a one-mean-a-day diet and so far its quite nice.

I bought a domain on a Tuesday, which is the least dramatic way to begin anything that will quietly eat the rest of your life. The checkout page asked if I wanted privacy protection; I clicked yes, then realized the blog itself the antithesis of that act.

For about 8 years I’ve been the human grease in the gears: sprint plans, burn-down charts, the guy who can still grep faster than most people scroll.
I type at 120 wpm, which sounds like a party trick until you realize it’s just the speed at which thoughts escape before I lose them. It’s really just a desperate attempt at hoarding ideas if you will. Most of those thoughts die in Obsidian: 100K orphaned notes, a digital graveyard where half-baked scripts and shower insights go to haunt each other. Every morning I open the vault, see the markdown tombstones and think I must do something about these files, then conveniently get distracted by the Jira tickets I myself create.

A blog is the cheapest therapy available without a co-pay! I don’t need a brand; I need a compost heap.
Ideas rot privately or they ferment publicly– either way, something grows, right? I’d rather smell the result than keep pretending the stash is precious.

So I’m turning the compost here.

Stories from the command line: the night Redis evicted every key because I forgot one ampersand, the Excel file that held a Fortune-500 payroll together with prayer and three nested IF statements (this is still untouched btw), the Raspberry Pi that now lives in my attic logging the exact decibel level that my aunt talks in.
Also stories from the kitchen: what happens when you sous-vide a plot to switch from Nodejs to FastAPI, or teach a seven-year-old to flip pancakes and realize delegation is just trust with extra steps.

If you find any of it useful, congratulations– you’ve intercepted a message that was originally addressed to future me. He’s forgetful, easily distracted, and will definitely Google the same error twice.
Maybe you’ll Google it too, and we’ll meet in the comments, the way hikers nod on the same trail, or two people in a silent elevator both pretend the fart wasn’t theirs, anyhoo, you get the gist.

I’m not chasing scale here (…here, at least); I’m chasing continuity (constancy even perhaps). So here we are, Tuesday’s impulse becoming Sunday’s habit, the first of many commits that (hopefully) won’t be rebased away.