I'm Mehul, a systems engineer massively enthusiastic about any system that involves more than 1 node.
20 years old and based out of India 🇮🇳. For the longest time I had been building in isolation which proved to be a fatal mistake. Now building in public and writing about what I find interesting 🔭.
Connect with me: Twitter, Linkedin, Email
Three things drive everything I do 📙
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Every rabbit hole has a bottom: I just have to find it. If something seems off, I absolutely have to know what's going on.
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Dismantle and rebuild with first principles: I question everything. Not to be contrarian but because the "why" is always more interesting than the what. Reading a paper or understanding a system isn't enough - I need to know why they made every single decision they made.
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Always take the unconventional path: Because you either shatter a belief forced upon you or discover "why" everyone else went the other way.
What is time, really? (insight from Spanner paper) ⏱️
1 second = time taken by 9,192,631,770 oscillations of radiation emitted by a Cesium-133 atom. (full article coming soon)
What even is money? (insight from Bitcoin paper) 💵
It's a shared hallucination. The only reason it works is because we collectively believe it works. Think about it. (full article coming soon)