I'm trying to pay close attention — to how I think, why I believe what I believe, and how both change over time.
For the first time in my life, over the last year and a half, I have been truly mindful of how my thinking works. How my belief system is forming and reforming. I feel this is just the beginning — so I want to document the process. Build systems. Become calmer. Discover what actually changes a person from the inside.
HabitMonk is that documentation. The name comes from a simple belief: our habits make us. Our systems define and evolve us. The monk is the posture — contemplative, disciplined, honest with himself. Not performing improvement, but actually practicing it.
Why write this publicly? Because public documentation is a discipline of honesty. When you write privately, you can let things stay vague. When you write publicly — even to a small audience — you are accountable to coherence. You have to actually know what you think. You have to be willing to be seen being wrong, uncertain, in-progress.
Two parts of me live here and I refuse to separate them. There is the work-self: someone building learning infrastructure for schools, thinking about AI, metacognition, and what it means to understand something deeply. And there is the citizen-self: someone thinking about society, history, privilege, poverty, and the world we have inherited.
These are not two selves. They are one person seen from different angles. The habits of mind that make you better at your craft — rigour, honesty, willingness to change your view — are the same ones that make you a more responsible person in the world.
I am a co-founder and CTO of Superslate Technologies, building AI-powered learning tools for K-12 schools in India. I studied materials science and simulation at IIT Madras, and have an MBA. But more than any of that, I am someone who is currently in the middle of figuring out how to think well — and writing it down in public because maybe it will be useful to someone else doing the same.