Visionary.
Innovator.
First Principles.
"Where first principles meet the human story"
I break complex systems down to their irreducible truth — then rebuild them with meaning, warmth, and vision. Technology and humanity are not opposites. In my world, they're the same conversation.
Ask why until you find bedrock.
On ThinkingTechnology serves humanity —
not the other way around.
The most elegant solutions are also
the most human.
Light
"The moment before you knew, you knew."
That precise instant when a concept clicked. When a melody became a language. When a cricket match taught me something about time.
& Prejudices
"Every opinion I have was earned."
The views I've formed — about cricket, food, technology, people, history — and the experiences that forged them. Not proclamations. Confessions.
& Balances
"Life has a way of correcting your math."
Stories about the moments when the universe pushed back. When assumption met reality. When I had to hand something back and start again from zero.
& Measure
"Not everything that counts can be counted."
Essays on valuation — of time, of relationships, of ideas. What I learned to stop measuring. The accounting of a life.
& Noise
"Most of what demands your attention doesn't deserve it."
Discernment. The discipline of deciding what matters in a world designed to exhaust your attention.
Long Arc
"History rhymes. Listen hard enough and you'll hear the beat."
The long view. Stories that draw on history, civilizations, and time — and connect them to a conversation I had yesterday.
The Bar That Was a Boardroom
On assembling a computer from borrowed parts, closing deals in a cabin inside a Hubli bar, and the first time I understood that a business is simply a problem you decided to solve before anyone else did.
The Boy Who Published the Records
On dial-up connections, a school backed by a Swamiji, parents in Dubai who didn't know what they were about to see, and the first time I understood that being early to something is both a gift and a negotiation.
The First and the Fastest
On building India's first online tenders portal, watching a publishing giant absorb it, and the lesson I wish someone had taught me before I needed to learn it.
20+ years building at the frontier of AI, marketing, and digital strategy. Led platforms that generated millions in growth for AI-native and SaaS companies.
I don't accept “that's how it's done” as an answer. Every system, problem, and opportunity gets reduced to its fundamental truths before I build from there.
I live in the gap between what exists and what should exist. Whether it's a new platform, a campaign framework, or a way of thinking — I see the shape of things before they arrive.
Cricket taught me patience. Cooking taught me precision. Music taught me rhythm. History taught me humility. I carry all of it into everything I build.
Not what the brief says. Not what others assume. What is the actual, verifiable reality of this situation?
Remove convention, assumption, inherited thinking. Find the irreducible unit — the atom of the problem.
Question every rule. Most “laws” of business, design, and life are really just customs nobody revisited.
Construct from bedrock, not tradition. The solution that surprises with its simplicity is always the right one.
Wit, humour, and
five lines of truth
- Pick a subject — anything, anyone, any moment
- Set the mood and tone that fits right now
- Add a song to colour the spirit of it
- Know Sanjeev? Share a close moment and make it personal
- Share it — with a note, across every platform
Write a limerick
in Sanjeev's voice
One subject. Five lines. AABBA. The kind of small poem that carries more than it looks — wry, specific, and always with something underneath.
- Choose a mood · set a tone
- Add a song to shape the atmosphere
- Share a close moment — make it yours
New stories across all six sections — delivered when there is something worth saying, not on a schedule. Because quality demands the right moment.
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