Hello there,
I'm Sriram
Welcome to my rough notebook
There's been many ideas flowing through my head off late, but they've been far too disorganized and chaotic despite being related to topics I'm deeply passionate about. My assessment is that this is due to a lack of external conversation and social input. This website is an attempt to tame these thoughts & ideas, develop them further and get them out into the real world, where I can get solid workable feedback on them rather than let them sit idle and potentially forgotten in the constantly running echo chamber that is my brain.
An Introduction
To set the agenda and provide some much needed context.
I've maintained journals many times in the past to document my thoughts on a variety of interests, including but not limited to technology, product design, entrepreneurial ambitions, fitness, music, organizational structures, politics, Hindu literature & teachings, tactics to traverse various social situations and sustainable ways to be satisfied with myself. I've also instituted certain measures to keep track of my personal and professional lives in a healthy way using various online tools. Some such measures include following only the people I've spoken to IRL on my Instagram account, maintaining a well thought out close friends list and tracking my career progress closely on my LinkedIn profile along with a preliminary maintenance of a GitHub page to host my various project source codes.
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These attempts have yielded good results in calming my head and giving me the assurance that I have all these trains of thought neatly compartmentalized where I can access them at a more appropriate time. I do this due to a fundamental belief that a deep knowledge in all these subjects that I naturally find myself drawn to will culminate to aid me greatly in the development of my career direction as well as persona.
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However, I recently made three observations that conflict with the implementation of this belief - that this constant stream of ideas with no avenue to discuss them with other people can take a toll on a person's mental well being, that a person is shaped in a more wholesome and sociable way in an environment where they believe society is watching them, and that it is statistically unlikely that you will ever find another person or group of people whose identity is composed of the same combination of ideas as yourself (although it is desirable to separate the self from the ego, the world isn't perfect) and hence will not have ample opportunities to discuss these ideas in detail and with good efficiency of speech, with any one person.
That last one is particularly important in this age where multi-billion dollar corporations are born out of the market demand to verbosely express half baked thoughts and uninformed opinions that are ironically required to be summarized in 280 characters or less.
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Aside from the fact that I'm not a fan of publicity, the reasoning for my decision to address these issues with a personal website that I wish to share with my social circles can be perfectly summarized by this excerpt from Jordan Peterson's '12 Rules for Life' -
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'If they don't have anyone to tell their story to, they lose their minds. Like hoarders, they cannot unclutter themselves.
The input of community is required for the integrity of the individual psyche. Much of what we consider healthy mental function is the result of our ability to use the reactions of others to keep our complex selves functional.
We outsource the problem of our sanity.'