Third in the series of Musings

Every Diwali I do something just for my personal growth. This year I am upgrading my website.

I have been working in AI for 8+ years and programming for 10+ years. Life is only so many decades, so when you spend time doing something for a decade it is a good effort to reflect back on it. Celebrate the successes and fix the failures. This is me spending 10 minutes summarising a few lessons I've learnt over 10 years.

Making money is hard

I have worked only in startup and MSMEs (SMBs for my American friends) and got first hand experience in how making money by creating value for a business is very hard. Especially if the field you are working in is a brand new hype field with unproven technology. Chances of success are exponentially lower than those of failure, so many things have to go right. When I was inexperienced (I'm still young), I would foul mouth certain product and brands. As I've grown, I've come to respect the hustle and people behind more than those products and brands.

Value of Communicating ie. ढिंढोरा पीटना

One place I've struggled over the years is communicating the work I have done. As I've lived in USA and India I've understood how minor cultural nuances play oversized role in the outcome. I no longer treat clear communication as a task but a way to structure my own thoughts. As I've gone from Medium to having my own (HTML coded!) website on Github, I now move towards Framer. I can now design in a GUI and manage content in a proper CMS. I'm going to use this a lot!

Project Arth ie. अर्थ

I've always been fascinated by Sanskrit not only as a language but more so because of the literature written in that language. The ancient Indian literature is the backbone of Indian value systems (sometimes misinterpreted as religion Hinduism). As I worked more with large enterprise clients, I've learned how they position and frame new technologies in context of legacy problems. I already knew about the new technologies, now I had to frame the problem. For this I started working on project Arth (pronounced as "earth") which aims to build the largest knowledge corpus for ancient Indian literature.

As I move forth in the new year on this Narak Charturdashi (Ashvina 29, 2081), I bow to Maa Saraswati to bless me with wisdom and knowledge.

ॐ शांति