As I grew up, “about me” became more about sharing my CV than myself as a whole. This is my hive—where I share my thoughts and experiences with the world. In a programmer’s style, this is my hello world post.
About me Link to heading
I am an aspiring polymath with a passion for learning, philosophy, martial arts, self-sufficiency, nation building, and solving hard problems.
Technology building Link to heading
I have built medical equipment used in surgery and for critical life support, as well as SaaS applications for health-tech startups.
I am now more curious about building AI agents and embodied intelligence to solve real-world problems.
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As I age, one question has grown louder within me—what is the purpose of life? The standard prescriptions offered by society feel rehearsed and unsatisfying. Our world provides near-infinite possibilities of experience, but given the finiteness of my existence, I want to maximize my time and live a life well-lived, authentically.
Pursuing this idea and observing my own actions, the hidden motive behind any experience turns out to be the pursuit of happiness. (Other names include satisfaction, a dopamine spike, feeling good, feeling fulfilled, contentment, and so on.) Any external action or experience is simply the path through which I assumed I would reach this destination called happiness.
The straightforward path is to look at what brings others happiness—what society broadcasts as happiness. Most likely, it is an external stimulus causing happiness to be generated internally. Once generated, it is not long-lasting; it is a fleeting experience. So I kept turning up the external stimuli whenever I wanted more.
But over time, with more external stimuli and more frequent activation, the amount needed to generate the same happiness increased. I became progressively numb to the stimuli, which called for a kind of detox—pulling back from the external world to reset. I was doing more and more just to generate a diminishing amount of fleeting happiness.
Though external stimuli seem like the easy and straightforward path to happiness, with time, the return on investment plateaus, causing more frustration and dissatisfaction.
In the middle of this mindless chase came a random thought: “If happiness is internally generated, can’t it be generated on demand, irrespective of the external world?”
If a life well-lived is about maximizing happiness, then the base requirement should be the ability to generate happiness independent of external stimuli. This is easier said than done, given the constant nudges from society—endless advertising, herd mentality, and the noise of social media—all pointing us outward.
Through evolution, we as humans seek safety and comfort by being part of a group. Since the majority is heavily influenced by advertising and social signaling, it is difficult to break out of the comfort zone and find new ways to generate happiness.
Fighting these natural tendencies and pursuing the ability to generate happiness on demand became my side-project through most of my 20s. This led me to explore philosophy from various cultures and traditions—from Western philosophy to Eastern philosophy.
I felt most at home with yogic philosophy, particularly through the Yoga Sutras by Patanjali. The book opens with a line loosely translated as: “Now, yoga begins.”
To me, this means: after going all around the world and seeking happiness in different ways, having finally arrived at this pathway—now, yoga begins.
As I head into my 30s, I want to live consciously and intentionally, with the pursuit of happiness as my central musing. Right now, I am following a hybrid approach—consciously seeking external stimuli in moderation while building inner self-sufficiency through the practice of yoga and meditation.