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Reverse-chronological moments that shaped me. One line each. Hover to preview details, click to pin.Reverse-chronological moments that shaped me. One line each. Tap a moment to expand.
Jan 2026 I spent four straight days making my first film in a long time, documenting the story of the missing relic at our church.
Dec 2025 I decided to take programming seriously and started shipping code to GitHub every day. I felt like a fraud of a developer.
Nov 2025 I finished my first full book cover to cover. Atomic Habits by James Clear.I've carried it acorss almost 20 flights for the past 2 years.
In Kerala, Bangalore, Hyderabad, and Wayanad I did an AI film festival and visited family.
Immersive global fellowship on Systems Thinking and Ecopreneurship in the Swiss Alps to develop scalable impact ventures. Met some of my best friends and learned systems thinking. Swiszzerland is expensive but probly the most beautiful place I've ever been alongside San Francisco.
It was a traveling circus acorss Krakow and Warsaw. Led daily conversations, group sessions and acitivities for 80+ students. I mainly taught frameworks and pitching while helping teenagers build English confidence.
Some of the smartest catholics I've met. Engaged with scholars and explored foundational questions and philosophical thought though aquinas lens. Inspired me to take my faith more seriously.
Two-day intensive workshop in San Francisco on building and shipping with AI, alongside ~2,000 top CS undergrads and grad students. Absorbed founder lessons: talk to users, ship fast, and iterate.
Me and my friend did a half Murph in Toronto. 1.34 hours for 2.53 km, 150 squats, 100 pushups and 50 pullups. I was sore for a week.
Hackathon for Rejects on easyhacks.org. Started from an accidental rejection email thread from UBC nwhacks. Turned into a 10 person team with 170+ beginners from 7+ countries and about $8K in prizes.
Did a 50km Scarborough → downtown bike ride for fun. All on the toronto bike share system. Probly the first person to do it. Switched bikes 13 times
Oct 2024 did my first 10K after 2 weeks of running with uoft running club
Survived an insane 24 hours in Italy without internet, relying on the kindness of strangers to get around.
Research work with Professor Yakov, focused on info-gap decision theory. Optimizing for windfall while increasing robustness under severe uncertainty. One of the most intense and challenging experiences of my life. Transfored my thinking, travled acorss Israel and met some of my best friends.
Carried free monitors from benchsci's old office across Toronto to resell and fund my voice agents project
Jan 1st, 2024 — did a cold plunge with Jack.org at Woodbine Beach in Toronto.
Canadian Gap Year Association helped fund my trip on my gap year across Bangalore, Kerala, and Colombo. Thank you CanGap ❤️
I shared my experience with the YMCA and how it gave me the confidence and opportunity to help make a change the world. Big thank you to the donors and staff who make programs like this possible.
A year to do cool shit, explore, travel, and learn outside school. I said yes to everything. I travel to new cities and visited family in India.
I joined the Computer Engineering program at York University. I had fun at engineering frosh and 2 weeks of classes before dropping out.Still have many friends
Massive Validation of my path so far. Invited to Forbidden Courses prior to it become a university. Completed the pre-course work, but couldn’t join the in-person seminar due to visa constraints. With Harvard and MIT kids
A community that opened my eyes to what’s really possible. Pitched and built tech with 200+ innovators, shipped and explored 30+ conferences around the world. Presented projects at Microsoft HQ, Interac, and Sensei Labs. This is where I met some of my best friends and learned to pitch and ship.
Launched a Shopify storefront for bath bomb fundraising for the Vanauley homeless shelter, promoted via Instagram theme pages. Had around 600 folloewers. Learned e-commerce + order fulfillment and marketing.
I was a child who built my first game with unity but few weeks after release and 30 users. Project got shut down by Google for violting user privacy and got a legal email from them.
Led a 4 person team for the Circus Clounz NFT project and learned Solidity. Starting building a whole ecossystem around it with token (circus penutz) and linktree tool (bio blox). At the end of the day no product market fit and launch failed.
Learned millions of dollars are left on the table. So I did a experiment with early GPT-2 fine-tuning to speed up applications. Raised $6k+ from scholarships, grants, and honorariums. Learned how incentives really work in education + nonprofits.
Took some of the crypto money and cashed out to buy a Sony A7 III for around $2k. I love it!
Got super into NFTs cuz of Gary Vee. Took my YMCA internship money, about $3K, and went all in. Flipped Veefriends and World of Women, did some DeFi farming, lived in Discord. Ran it up portfolio to around $100K then the market crashed and I lost it all. I did once so I can do it again! :)
I got a DJI Mavic. Since it was the early days for drone stuff, I got the Transport Canada basic Flight license.
Build mutiple theme pages for gaming, health keto and other stuff and sold a clickbank product
Deeply influenced by creators like Peter McKinnon, potato and got into filmmaking. Did over 10+ videos, short films entered into short film competions. Won a few thousand dollars for corporate vids. It's now a passion of mine.
Built and shipped real time Raspberry Pi glasses to help visually impaired folks read what is in front of them. Used OCR and wired it up to Google Assistant and Alexa. First shipped hardware project at 15. I was the youngest there. Thanks Ms. Chan for the opportunity.
I made the first logo for the St. Thomas Syro Malabar Forane Church. It was a competition. I won and got $100 from the bishop in front of everyone. This started my pursuit of money.
Begged my parents for random arduino tech. And started building random things like RC cars and open source OTTO project.
A simple calculator app written in Kotlin: clean UI, basic operations (add/subtract/multiply/divide), and a straightforward keypad layout. It was written in kotlin.
Started my first YouTube channel and made my first videos. Over time I received ~ $100 in free products across channels through partnerships and sponsorships. Even tho I only had 50 subscribers.
Inspired by dave2d and linus tech tips. I built my first PC. This started everything.
Big shift. Joined ESL at school.
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