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From a hostel canteen in 2006 to Himalayan retreats, art cafes, and AI-powered intelligence — years of navigating global ICT landscapes with a relentless passion for creating.

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Day One on the Water: A Beginner's Guide to Sailing (and Arguing With the Wind)
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Day One on the Water: A Beginner's Guide to Sailing (and Arguing With the Wind)

My first day sailing — thanks to Nick and his dinghy Mirror Water in Toronto Harbour — plus the beginner's guide I wish I'd had going in: points of sail, tacking vs jibing, a full glossary of the terms, and 5 tips that would've saved me a soggy afternoon.

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📍 Dehradun, India
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The Journey

20 years across the world

Telecom / Nokia
Ventures / Startups
Education / Growth
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Current / AI
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2003–09Dehradun, India
Education

Engineering studies & graduation

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What I'm building now

AI / Kids01

MySleepyTales

AI-powered bedtime stories for kids. Personalized, imaginative, and crafted to help children drift off to dreamland.

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SaaS / UX02

Fixit

Form UX analysis and fixing tool. Because life's too short for broken forms that frustrate users.

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3D / Tech03

Grip3D

3D visualization and immersive experiences. Bringing depth and dimension to digital interactions.

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Hospitality / Art04

Musee Living

From Himalayan retreats to art cafes and boutique hotels — hospitality with soul. 6 properties and counting.

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Jev: The AI That Doesn't Write — It Decides (200× Faster)
Technology – AI & Telecom9 min read

Jev: The AI That Doesn't Write — It Decides (200× Faster)

Most AI calls in production aren't writing essays — they're making a decision: classify this, score that, pick one of these. A new model called Jev skips the writing entirely and returns a calibrated probability in one shot. Here's how it works, and how it compares to RLHF and RLVR — in plain English.

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The AI Risk We Can't Ignore
Technology – AI & Telecom8 min read

The AI Risk We Can't Ignore

I build with AI every single day across a dozen ventures. Here's what actually worries me about it, what doesn't, and how I try to build responsibly anyway.

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We Can Map a Whole Brain Now. I Built a Way to Watch One Think.
Technology – AI & Telecom8 min read

We Can Map a Whole Brain Now. I Built a Way to Watch One Think.

Scientists have finished wiring diagrams of an entire fruit-fly brain — every neuron, every connection. I turned one of its circuits into something you can play with, and it left me thinking hard about where AI is going.

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Network Brain: How Packet Data Finds the Best Route Across a 5G/LTE Network
Technology – AI & Telecom10 min read

Network Brain: How Packet Data Finds the Best Route Across a 5G/LTE Network

Every time your phone loads something, a decision gets made hundreds of times a second: which way should this packet go? Here's the real journey packet data takes across a 5G/LTE network — RU/DU/CU, fronthaul to backhaul, UPF and the 5G Core, out to a CDN — how observability localizes a fault along that chain, and how the network reroutes around it. Built with an interactive you can break.

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Wildfire Smoke in Ontario: 10 Things to Do When the Air Turns Severe (Kids, Older Adults, Everyone)
Health & Safety7 min read

Wildfire Smoke in Ontario: 10 Things to Do When the Air Turns Severe (Kids, Older Adults, Everyone)

Canada's wildfire seasons keep pushing smoke over Ontario cities and turning the sky orange. Here's a practical, no-panic guide to protecting your family when the AQHI hits severe — with specific steps for kids, older adults, and healthy adults.

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The Marketing Stack Behind StonedAge — AI Blogs, Emails, Zero Code
Startups & Entrepreneurship4 min read

The Marketing Stack Behind StonedAge — AI Blogs, Emails, Zero Code

How a boutique inn three kilometres past the last road in the Himalayas runs its entire content and email engine with AI, automation, and not a single line of code I had to babysit.

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