About me

👋 Hey, I’m Gaurav.

I'm a reformed AI startup founder, trained as a physicist and bioengineer. I've also been writing essays and poetry for twenty-five years. This newsletter is where I share essays about creativity, science, and practicing intention. Topics that don't fit on a resume. Stuff that's not down in any map.

Every month, I publish an essay and a field note (what I've been doing, reading, listening to, or otherwise paying attention to).


Where do I start?

I wrote this after getting out of a long creative slump and it’s resonated the most with my readers:

Want to better understand how AI works? Here’s my framework, with a no-math explanation of the development of language models like ChatGPT:


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Essays and stories that explore technology, humanity, and the gap between what we can measure and what's real.

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