Notes and essays
What I've learned while building.
A compact archive of lessons from ownership, teaching, burnout recovery, and the messy part of making useful things for real people.
Ownership & Shipping
Notes from the gap between planning and done. Moving fast, breaking assumptions, and building things that survive real use.
- 2025-09-18TradeItUp: Passive Momentum Allocation StrategyA rules-based momentum allocation model using NiftyBees, GoldBees, and LiquidBees for capital protection and compounding.
- 2025-08-22An Espresso ExperimentA weekend coffee experiment while debugging APIs, and a reminder that creativity helps in both code and life.
- —Final-Round Rejection for Being an UndergradA 4 AM reflection on hiring filters, undergrad bias, and staying open to better opportunities.
Mentorship & Growth
What 500 hours of teaching taught me about thinking clearly. Helping others move faster is a selfish act — you learn more than they do.
- 2025-09-05Mentor Mentions: Advice That Actually WorkedA note of gratitude for practical mentorship, from burnout recovery to structured growth frameworks.
- 2025-07-28What Team Collaboration Taught MeA short reflection on why collaborative thinking beats isolated optimization in modern AI-driven engineering teams.
Burnout → Sustainability
Motivation is a bad system. These are the structures I built when I realised consistency beats intensity every time.
- 2025-07-12My Best ROI Wasn’t in the Stock MarketA reflection on consistency, routine, and self-investment as the highest compounding asset.
- 2025-06-08Never Thought This Would Be My Morning RoutineHow an early coding routine with coffee, planning, and focused teaching set the tone for productive days.
Market Dynamics
The same decision looks different depending on when you make it. Timing, pressure, and what the market is actually rewarding.
Zero-to-One
The first version is never the point. The point is earning the right to build the second one.
More explorations
Extra notes, technical deep-dives, and rough ideas that still felt worth keeping.
- 2025-12-28What an Energetic Ride 2025 Has BeenA personal year-end note on habits, accountability, and steady growth through 2025.
- 2025-11-10The Alternate ChecklistA reflection on realistic goal-setting, ownership, and why relationships matter more than vanity metrics.
- 2025-10-15devDocs: AI-Powered Project Documentation from Legacy CodeHow we built devDocs, an AI CLI tool that generates structured documentation for old and undocumented codebases.
- 2025-07-19ChatGPT Could Social-Engineer My Public FootprintA candid note on how quickly AI can map your online footprint and why digital hygiene matters.
- —Prod Deploy Broke? Learn Fast, Ship BetterA light take on broken production deploys and the mindset shift from panic to learning.