Building withintelligence.Thinking insystems.

I'm interested in how things work beneath the surface—from AI and software to businesses, financial markets, and the decisions that shape them. I build, experiment, study the results, and write down what I learn.

Karthick Aravindan, seated and looking at the camera, in a dark jacket and white t-shirt.
Karthick Aravindan

A public notebook of work in progress. Not a claim to have everything figured out.

A notebook, not a pitch.

I build software and AI products, explore financial systems, study how businesses work, and document what I learn. The record is allowed to change.

Notes from the journey

Things I'm thinking about.

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Building

26 Oct 2026

2 min read

Why I Build So Many Things

On the tension between many experiments and the few products that show real demand. No invented outcomes.

Entrepreneurship · Software · Business

Building

26 Oct 2026

1 min read

Systems Over Motivation

On Atomic Habits and how I try to apply it to learning, building, and review. The book's ideas and my experience are kept apart.

Systems

Building

26 Oct 2026

1 min read

Building to Learn

On prototypes, the Lean Startup, and the limit of what I can know before something runs.

Software · Entrepreneurship

Selected work

Things I've been building.

Launched products, and trading systems still in progress.

The person

The longer introduction is on its own page.

About holds the background, the projects, and how this notebook is meant to be read. This page stays with the work, the notes, and the principles.

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Karthick Aravindan

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