Curious to a fault, restless by default. I'd rather be a little lost and learning than comfortable and bored.
I grew up in Gujarat and studied computer science on two continents — India first, then California. Somewhere in a quarter-life crisis, I decided the web was where I wanted to spend my attention, and I've followed that instinct across a string of cities ever since: Southern California, Boston, Seattle, and now San Francisco.
Each move taught me something the last place couldn't. I collect those more than I collect things — new streets to get lost in, new problems to take apart, people who see the world from an angle I hadn't thought to stand at.
If any of this makes you want to say hello, please do.
ronakjethwa@gmail.comI photograph places more than people — architecture, light, the odd geometry of a street at the wrong time of day. Some of it lives at ronakjethwa.photos, usually with a sentence about what I was looking at.
I curate soul playlists with more care than they probably deserve. Something about that era's warmth keeps pulling me back.
- Rangewhy generalists win in a world that rewards specialists
- Thinking, Fast and Slowhow little we can actually trust our own gut
- Algorithms to Live Bycomputer science, quietly applied to everyday decisions
- Origin Storythe history of everything, compressed into something you can hold
- Brief Answers to the Big QuestionsHawking, generous with the hardest questions
- Steve Jobsobsession and taste, for better and worse
- Capitalism Without Capitalwhy the modern economy runs on things you can't touch
- The God Delusionan argument I didn't fully buy but couldn't put down
- Bhagavad Gitathe one I keep returning to without fully knowing why
- Reading
- The Transcendent Brain by Alan Lightman — spirituality in the age of science
- Thinking about
- how much of a place you actually absorb before moving to the next one
- Curious about
- what taste even means when a machine can generate anything