Why I Write

From an early age, I've been curious about how we, as a species, went from living in the wild to building the world we live in today.

I keep returning to this question time to time because our progress wasn't a sudden breakthrough; It was a long sequence of small decisions.

I think about how early tools appeared, not as inventions but as responses to everyday problems. How shared beliefs formed. How groups organized themselves. How simple rules turned into systems. How societies rose and fell.

As I've grown, this curiosity has settled into two paths that are really just two sides of the same coin: business and culture (cliodynamics, sociology, more). One looks at the tools and systems we create today, and the other looks at the ancient instincts that led us to create them at the first place.

Think about the campfire. It's our first social product, a central hub where we shared stories and learned to trust strangers. Today, that same instinct shows up in the form of social media. Clay pots became storage devices. Smoke signals became push notifications. Feathers on a hat became verified social badges. Shaping stone tools became designing software.

The patterns haven't changed. Only the medium did.

In early days, I used to jot down a few quick thoughts on a notepad, breaking down unrefined ideas, collecting quotes, conversations, movie dialogues, and posting a few favorites on my old blog — Krishna's Notes.

What I thought was a complete waste of time with no proper domain expertise, was only the beginning of my thought experiment journey. As odd as it may seem, this habit helped me a lot, at regulating my fragmented thoughts to taking bets on my career and life.

This is why I write.

Some of my writing comes from working in marketing/growth, talking to different teams, learning through mistakes and others come from studying cliodynamics, sociology, etc. and constantly experimenting with thoughts.

After all, understanding our history is just as important as shaping the future. I explore these questions at their most fundamental level and write about what I learn on my website.