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.
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.
Not planted yet.
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
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. This is the rest of the hardware inside, and how lucky I got with the timing of buying it.
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.