Now
What I'm currently focused on, building, reading, and thinking about.
Last updated: March 2026
This is a /now page — a snapshot of what I'm focused on right now. It changes regularly.
What I'm Thinking About This Month
March is the month I usually take stock. Not because anything forces it — there's no fiscal year end, no birthday, no obvious marker. Just that March in Sydney has that quality: the summer heat finally breaking, the mornings getting cooler, everything slightly sharper.
This month I'm sitting with a tension that keeps reappearing in my work: the difference between building fast and building well. At Weel, I'm architecting systems that need to last. In my side products, I need to ship before I lose momentum. These two modes of working require genuinely different mindsets, and I'm not always good at switching between them on the same day.
I'm also writing more in Telugu than I have in years. Not for any strategic reason — just that I realized I'd been letting the language go quiet, and quiet languages die. Nishabdham is partly a discipline: write in Telugu regularly so the sentences still come naturally.
The thing I'm most uncertain about: how to keep the technical depth of the AI work current without it consuming all the reading and thinking time that used to go to non-AI things. I don't have a good answer yet.
Building
- /avi — Expanding the digital garden. Currently fleshing out the Books section, Thinkish frameworks, and Telugu creative writing.
- Thinki.sh — Designing v2 of the preventive thinking tools. Exploring AI-guided thought coaching.
- MetaLabs — Prototyping the Agent Ops Kit for composable AI agents.
- PromptLib v3 — Adding persona-specific guardrails and curated prompt chains.
- GlucosePro — Health companion for blood glucose insights. Early prototype stage.
Working On
- Staff engineering at Weel — frontend architecture, design systems, and developer experience.
- Mentoring junior and mid-level engineers on career growth and technical leadership.
Reading
- Currently: Re-reading Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
- Recently finished: Reframe Your Brain by Scott Adams (my notes)
- Up next: The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
Writing
- New Telugu short stories for Nishabdham
- Technical essays on AI-native frontend patterns
- Personal narrative pieces for Avibhaktham
Photography
- Shooting regularly with the Sony A6400 — street, nature, family, and events
- Planning a garage studio build for portraits, baby/kids, and product photography
- Expanding the lens collection — currently 6 lenses from ultra-wide to super-telephoto
- Posting on @slashaviLens and documenting the journey at /photography
Thinking About
- How AI changes what it means to be a software engineer — not replacing, but reshaping the role
- Building wealth as a first-generation migrant in Australia
- The intersection of systems thinking and creative writing
- How to teach my kids both Telugu culture and Australian identity
Health Focus
- Consistent morning movement routine (gym 4x/week)
- Sleep optimization — targeting 7.5+ hours with consistent schedule
- GlucosePro self-experimentation — tracking blood glucose response to meals
People & Blogs I Follow
I read blogs over YouTube. These are the people and newsletters that consistently shape how I think about engineering, productivity, and AI.
Engineering & Dev
| Who | Where | What they write about |
|---|---|---|
| Addy Osmani | addyosmani.com/blog | Performance, Chrome DevTools, engineering leadership |
| Dan Abramov | overreacted.io | React mental models, deep technical thinking |
| Kent C. Dodds | kentcdodds.com/blog | Testing, React patterns, developer education |
| Lee Robinson | leerob.io/blog | Next.js, Vercel, frontend infrastructure |
| Josh W. Comeau | joshwcomeau.com | CSS, animations, interactive explanations |
| Wes Bos | wesbos.com/blog | JavaScript, tooling, practical tutorials |
| Cassie Evans | cassie.codes | SVG, animations, creative coding |
| Robin Wieruch | robinwieruch.de/blog | React, Node.js, full-stack tutorials |
| Tania Rascia | taniarascia.com | Clear, beginner-friendly full-stack guides |
| CSS-Tricks | css-tricks.com | CSS, frontend techniques, web platform |
Productivity & Systems
| Who | Where | What they write about |
|---|---|---|
| Cal Newport | calnewport.com | Deep work, digital minimalism, slow productivity |
| Tiago Forte | fortelabs.com/blog | Second brain, PARA, knowledge management |
| Ali Abdaal | aliabdaal.com/blog | Productivity, feel-good systems, creator economy |
| Thomas Frank | collegeinfogeek.com/blog | Study systems, Notion workflows, habits |
| James Clear | jamesclear.com/articles | Atomic habits, decision making, continuous improvement |
AI
| Who | Where | What they write about |
|---|---|---|
| Simon Willison | simonwillison.net | LLM tools, open source AI, practical experimentation |
| Eugene Yan | eugeneyan.com | ML systems, RecSys, applied AI in production |
| Linus Lee | linus.lee/blog | AI tools, creative computing, personal AI |
| Jay Alammar | jalammar.github.io | Visual explanations of transformers, embeddings, NLP |
| Lilian Weng | lilianweng.github.io | Deep research surveys on agents, RLHF, LLM internals |
Newsletters I Read Weekly
| Newsletter | Link | Why I read it |
|---|---|---|
| Bytes | bytes.dev | The best JavaScript newsletter — funny, concise, useful |
| Frontend Focus | frontendfoc.us | Weekly roundup of frontend articles and browser news |
| Pointer | pointer.io | Curated engineering reads — senior/staff level signal |
If you're trying to stay current without drowning in YouTube, these blogs and newsletters are the move. Text-first, high signal, no filler.
This page is inspired by Derek Sivers' /now movement. The idea: instead of an "about" page that describes who you were, a "now" page shows who you are — right now.