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Major technical and life choices, documented with context and reasoning.
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ai
architecture
backend
business
career
desktop
education
email
infrastructure
integrity
life
local-first
mobile
monorepo
performance
personal
runtime
rust
self-hosting
team
2025-02-01
career
life
Left Prachyam after discovering company was being sold
Chose:
Leave immediately, protect contributed work
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Vindicated
🔬 1mo deliberation
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2024-10-20
ai
infrastructure
local-first
Invest in a local AI inference stack instead of cloud APIs
Chose:
Local inference for dev, cloud APIs for production frontier tasks
✓
Vindicated
🔬 3wk deliberation
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2024-06-20
infrastructure
email
self-hosting
Self-host mail infrastructure vs. managed SMTP
Chose:
Self-host Mailcow
✓
Vindicated
🔬 3wk deliberation
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2024-03-10
architecture
monorepo
mobile
Monorepo for 8-platform OTT vs. separate repos
Chose:
Nx monorepo
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Still holds
🔬 1wk deliberation
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2024-03-01
career
life
Joined Prachyam Studios as volunteer for ₹50k/month work
Chose:
Join Prachyam as volunteer
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Still holds
🔬 2mo deliberation
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2024-02-01
career
personal
integrity
Leave college in 4th year
Chose:
Left college
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Still holds
🔬 1mo deliberation
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2024-01-15
runtime
backend
performance
Bun over Node.js for all new backend work
Chose:
Bun + Elysia
✓
Vindicated
⚡ 5d deliberation
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2023-11-15
desktop
rust
architecture
Tauri + Rust for Docsee instead of Electron
Chose:
Tauri + Rust
✓
Vindicated
🔬 2wk deliberation
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2023-06-01
team
business
career
Dissolved the 7-person team
Chose:
Dissolve and return to solo focused execution
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Vindicated
🔬 5mo deliberation
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2016-06-01
career
education
Science stream over Arts
Chose:
Science/Maths stream
✓
Vindicated
🔬 3mo deliberation
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2015-06-01
education
career
Self-taught over coaching institutes
Chose:
Self-taught path
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Vindicated
🔬 5mo deliberation
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