The Workshop
Product thinking, platforms and AI, and the things I build to test them: a home lab, self-hosted tools, and the occasional experiment that didn't work.
Digital Christin, In Progress.
Engineer, Founder, Product Leader. Also Lego, F1, and more books than shelves can hold.
The Library
Books, sci-fi and fantasy, films and TV, with ratings. Mostly things I'd hand you, a few I'd warn you off, and far too much about The Expanse.
The Collection
Collectibles, Lego, and books kept as objects rather than just read. The same pieces show up on my YouTube and Instagram.
Not planted yet.
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The Music
What I listen to and why it stuck, from the songs that found me in a small Kerala town to whatever's on repeat now.
The Pit Wall
F1, Hamilton, and driving for the love of it.
The Road
Places I've been and how I got there: treks, road trips, and the detours that turned out to be the point.
Not planted yet.
Everything, newest first
Dumbledore Should Have Been the Villain
Part two of my Harry Potter series, on the adults who fail the children in their care and why Dumbledore works better as the villain.
I Replaced the Heart With a Library Stamp
How the like button on my Ghost theme became a red SEEN stamp that readers can sign, running on a Cloudflare Worker and a D1 database.
Asking Is Cheap
How I ask opinionated product managers to test their ideas with customers before arguing for them, and how interviews became part of judging a release.
I Over-Engineered the Sticky Note
I turned comments off on my Ghost blog and built a 200-character sticky note in their place, with no brief and nobody to stop me.
I Wanted to Retire at 40
I dug up the blog I started in 2009 and checked its first post, a list of worries, against where each one stands seventeen years later.
Nobody Was Building for AI
Why AI-first usually means data-first, told through a news CMS, a B2B sales database and an automotive publisher.
I Put My Bookshelves on the Internet
I photographed three bookcases, had Claude read 535 spines, and rebuilt them as a library page where visitors can rearrange my books.
97 to 83.9, One Morning at a Time
Part two of my weight-loss log: daily weigh-ins from March to July, a US holiday, and a week the scale refused to move.
Tolkien's Saddest Scene Has No Villain in It
How the scene Tolkien called his most tragic taught me to read for people, and led me from The Lord of the Rings to Malazan and Stormlight.
The Two Kids I Finished Harry Potter For
Why I read all seven Harry Potter books after losing faith by the fourth, and why I still read fanfiction about Harry and Hermione.
Sonny Hayes Would Never Pass the Medical
A Formula 1 fan's review of F1 the movie, whose hero would fail an FIA medical on day one and whose young Black driver deserved far better.
The Physics of Coffee Brewing
I grew up on coffee boiled in a pan. Then I watched Hiran treat an AeroPress like an engineering experiment.
From less than 2,900 Steps a Day to 20,000
February: 81,744 steps in the whole month. April: 339,601. In between, a walk after every meal, a friend named Anusha, and no willpower worth reporting.
What Story Points Were Hired To Do
In 2022 I coached my team into story points with LEGO. AI has changed what makes software expensive, and I'd now lead teams out of them, carefully.
Breaking the Habit
B2B users live inside our decisions. Seven years after a newsroom roadshow, this is how I weigh a product change against what it asks people to relearn.
The Dungeon Has a Look Now
A personal site should look personal. Every post here is now a tilted index card, and the light switch is a lightsaber.
Probably the Cat
My blog lives on a NAS in a cabinet at home. Now, when the house goes dark, the site doesn't.
Pages Per Rupee
As a kid I bought books by the page count, because that was the only way I could afford them. A school library and a best friend since LKG did the rest.
32GB RAM in a NAS Rated for 16
ASUSTOR rates this NAS for 16GB of memory, and mine has run on 32GB without complaint. Here is the rest of what's inside, and how lucky my timing was.
My Home Lab Started With a Borrowed Raspberry Pi
A borrowed Raspberry Pi, a NAS that mostly sat there, and AI as the way in. How my home lab actually started.
Letting Claude Log My Meals and Watch Data Into NutriTrace
I've logged every meal by chatting with Claude for months. Now the same chat writes straight into my own server.
Self-Hosting My Food Diary and Health Data
I have tracked food, steps and weight since April, first in an AI chat. This is how I moved it onto my own NAS with NutriTrace, and what broke on the way.
The Long Way to the Barricade
I found Linkin Park in 2004, in a small Kerala town. In 2026 I was the first person through the gate at their first ever show in India.
Self-Ghosting this blog runs on self-hosted Ghost
Hiran said Hugo would be simpler. He was right. I went with self-hosted Ghost anyway, for reasons that have nothing to do with the software.