Art, music, AI, tech, brain rot, anything.https://vyas.garden/https://vyas.garden/writing/2026-10-22-seven-minutes/https://vyas.garden/writing/2026-10-22-seven-minutes/When I first read about this, the first question that hit me was—wait, is this a best of moments reel or just seven random minutes of my life? And more importantly, who in my brain is editing this? Because if it’s the…Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://vyas.garden/writing/2026-08-21-4042-forty-is-the-answer-for-everything/https://vyas.garden/writing/2026-08-21-4042-forty-is-the-answer-for-everything/In the book, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams the planet sized computer to figure out ‘the answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything’, after seven and a half million…Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://vyas.garden/writing/2026-03-14-young-builders-signal/https://vyas.garden/writing/2026-03-14-young-builders-signal/While headlines chase unicorns, real execution happens in the quiet verticals. These four young builders, early 20s, shipping fast and attacking broken Indian spaces with vertical AI that actually works. Travel anxiety,…Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://vyas.garden/writing/2026-03-09-perform-this-is-gtm-dude/https://vyas.garden/writing/2026-03-09-perform-this-is-gtm-dude/I remember the day I hit ‘Post.’ I had just resigned. I was possessed by that specific, anything is possible energy of having a million thoughts and nowhere to put them. I was building Wasp (it was called Mandrake that…Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://vyas.garden/writing/2026-02-24-from-inflection-to-ignition/https://vyas.garden/writing/2026-02-24-from-inflection-to-ignition/I kept reading CRED mafia, Razorpay Founders, I wondered what led to these people inflect and start building their own startups!! The golden growth phase isn’t career fuel. It’s founder bootcamp. Join during inflection:…Tue, 24 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://vyas.garden/writing/2026-02-02-the-rise-of-the-vertical-operator/https://vyas.garden/writing/2026-02-02-the-rise-of-the-vertical-operator/Most breakout companies are obvious in hindsight. But the earliest signals don’t come from pitch decks. They come from public traces: - Institutional Leadership (E-Cell Mafia) - Category Creation (Defining AEO era) -…Mon, 02 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://vyas.garden/writing/2026-01-30-thermodynamics-of-social-connections/https://vyas.garden/writing/2026-01-30-thermodynamics-of-social-connections/“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” Maya Angelou I’ve been thinking about relationships all wrong. For years, many…Fri, 30 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://vyas.garden/writing/2026-01-26-builders-shaping-indias-ai-execution/https://vyas.garden/writing/2026-01-26-builders-shaping-indias-ai-execution/Most breakout companies are obvious in hindsight. But the earliest signals don’t come from pitch decks. They come from public traces : - research activity - ecosystem leadership - enterprise positioning - writing and…Mon, 26 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://vyas.garden/writing/2025-12-17-nothing-pays-as-good-as-what-unemployment/https://vyas.garden/writing/2025-12-17-nothing-pays-as-good-as-what-unemployment/A year of two halves: employed and unemployed. Unemployment for the win. (But please send money.) “Nothing pays as good as unemployment feels.” That sentence does come from privilege and I’m aware of it. The privilege…Wed, 17 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://vyas.garden/writing/2025-11-14-a-short-hospital-story/https://vyas.garden/writing/2025-11-14-a-short-hospital-story/“Pass me the blanket, you dufferrr,” said Mr. Singh, our unofficial in-house news reporter. His mother had been in the hospital for two weeks after a cardiac arrest. Stable, yes. Safe? No one really knew. People imagine…Fri, 14 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://vyas.garden/writing/2025-09-30-the-less-i-know-the-better/https://vyas.garden/writing/2025-09-30-the-less-i-know-the-better/Some songs don’t just get stuck in your head, they get stuck in your life. The Less I Know, The Better has always felt like one of those. A true bipolar song, the lyrics make the song sad, the bass makes the song sexy,…Tue, 30 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://vyas.garden/writing/2025-09-28-backside-of-your-favourite-notebook/https://vyas.garden/writing/2025-09-28-backside-of-your-favourite-notebook/Everyone would have that one notebook in their school time which was meant to be classwork/homework notebook but fate and you had different plans. You started to fill it with random games, gibberish, random…Sun, 28 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://vyas.garden/writing/2025-09-27-what-reddit-tells-us-about-the-future/https://vyas.garden/writing/2025-09-27-what-reddit-tells-us-about-the-future/Every pitch deck says VCs are in the business of backing founders. 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Somewhere in the noise, I had a thought shouldn’t there be some…Tue, 22 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://vyas.garden/writing/2024-03-18-curious-case-of-cred/https://vyas.garden/writing/2024-03-18-curious-case-of-cred/Many of us have seen the rare scenes of Rahul Dravid being angry in ads, Neeraj Chopra being an actor, These are all curious ads for CRED. Source: CRED, obviously Source: CRED 1\. How was CRED started? CRED was founded…Mon, 18 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://vyas.garden/writing/2024-03-14-a-piece-of-plastic/https://vyas.garden/writing/2024-03-14-a-piece-of-plastic/Plastic Money As the digital age ushers in an era of cashless transactions and financial finesse, there's one little plastic card that holds a universe of possibilities: the credit card. Much like a magic wand in the…Thu, 14 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMT