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Long-form essays, research notes, podcast companions, and experiments from the build process.
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The Story of ChatGPT
A 15-chapter research essay on the lab, scaling bet, and chatbot that changed the direction of technology.
- Story chapterChapter 2: The People Who Walked Away
Before OpenAI had a model, it had people willing to interrupt their own futures.
- Story chapterChapter 1: The Room Where the Bet Was Made
Before ChatGPT became a product, it began as a question: who should shape the future of intelligence?
- ArticleWhy are we going back to the moon now?
What a StarTalk explainer revealed about why we really went and why we're going back
- PodcastThe Weekly Commit #010: "Everything, Everywhere, All at Once"
Season One Finale - Nine commits. One question, asked nine different ways.
- PodcastThe Weekly Commit #009: "Vibing"
Vibe Living to Vibe Coding. Staying curious still matters.
- ArticleWrapper vs. Scaffolding vs. Harness: What's Actually the Difference?
Three words everyone's using. One distinction that actually changes how you build.
- PodcastThe Weekly Commit #008: "One Step at a Time"
The fastest way forward isn't your speed. It's theirs.
- PodcastThe Weekly Commit #007: “Just Ask AI”
A small sentence that changed our family dynamics.
- PodcastThe Weekly Commit #006: The World Is Editable
Make your mark upon it.
- PodcastThe Weekly Commit #005: The Stress Test
Pressure doesn’t change people. It reveals defaults.
- PodcastThe Weekly Commit #004: When Proactiveness Turns Into Anxiety
Letting go of the need to control everything
- PodcastThe Weekly Commit #003: The Gaffer & The Demon Hunters
Hash: 2026-02-01 | 04:04 pm Status: Refactoring...
- PodcastThe Weekly Commit #002: The Republic of Code
Hash: 2026-01-26 | 04:44:00 UTC Status: Deploying...
- PodcastThe Stranger Things Formula: Reverse Engineering the Upside Down
Decoding the Agile Storytelling, Science Checks, and Scooby-Doo Dynamics
- ArticleJoin my new subscriber chat
A private space for us to converse and connect
- PodcastThe Weekly Commit #001: Cooking with hooks & The Derby Redemption
Hash: 2026-01-19 | 01:11:00 UTC Status: Rebooting 🟢
- PodcastAudio Deep Dive: The Long Game: Why You Should Watch "The Thinking Game"
How video games, a London lab, and decades of patience led to a Nobel Prize.
- ArticleThe Long Game: Why You Should Watch "The Thinking Game"
How video games, a London lab, and decades of patience led to a Nobel Prize.
- ArticleThe Abstraction That Changed Everything: Martin Fowler on Why AI Is Different
I wanted to understand AI's impact on software engineering. I found something more fundamental.
- ArticleQuantum Entanglement in AI: Why Everyone Investing in Everyone Isn't a Bug
I was looking for competition. I found interdependence. It's more elegant than I expected.
- ArticleWhat Got You Here Can Take You Forward - If You Know What to Keep and What to Change
Principles Don’t Expire. Methods Do
- ArticleWhy We Keep Going Back to the Same Movie 🎬
Why do we love watching the same movie again and again, even when we already know exactly how it ends?
- Article🎶 Why Spotify’s Lossless Audio Matters and How Sound Becomes Math
From concert halls to code, the hidden story behind digital sound quality
- ArticleAI Is Your Mike Ross. Here’s How to Be Harvey Specter
Why Your Most Valuable Skill in the Age of AI Is Not Intelligence, but Wisdom
- ArticleHow a Netflix Movie introduced me to 200 year old Romantics
My Oxford Year and John Keats
- ArticleWalking Among Giants: Lessons From Cambridge
Sharing my experience from Trip to Cambridge
- ArticleWhat Superman Can Teach Us About Allyship
When you think of Superman, you think of strength.
- ArticleHow ChatGPT Became Our Cognitive Sidekick
We haven’t just built smarter tools. We’ve gained a new kind of mind.
- ArticleAlan Turing: The Man Who Made AI Thinkable
Alan Turing was a brilliant mathematician, logician, and cryptographer.
- ArticleAuthenticity
Because who you are matters!
- ArticleF1 the Movie: A Full-Throttle Cinematic Experience
Hans Zimmer’s music. 4DX immersion. Racing dreams. A film that pulls you into the heart of Formula 1, even if you’ve never watched a race before.
- ArticleFirst Principles thinking
Learnings from Jensen Huang
- ArticleWelcome to Engineered By Gaurang
Engineer by mind, storyteller by soul.