Notes
Essays, reflections, and working notes on robotics, entrepreneurship, and building for the physical world.
Foundation models are impressive in demos but unreliable in deployment. Here's what still breaks when you try to make a robot actually work.
Why the hardest parts of deploying robots have nothing to do with AI models — and everything to do with hardware, data, and operations.
Every robot is an assembly of actuators, sensors, motors, and controllers sourced from a fragmented global supply chain. This layer is invisible but critical.
Lessons from building EV battery-swapping infrastructure in emerging markets — where every assumption about deployment breaks.
A reflection on why I'm drawn to building companies — and what kind of company would be worth spending a decade on.
What growing up in military school in India taught me about discipline, independence, and showing up when things are hard.