About
I am trying to build a better feel for the present.
I am Gurudas Bhat. I write as gurubhat about technology, ambition, internet culture, work, status, and the odd little moments where the future enters daily life before anyone has agreed what to call it.
this site
This is a public notebook, not a beat. AI shows up often because it keeps changing the texture of work, taste, ambition, and ordinary confusion. But the subject is usually larger than the tool.
The essays are attempts to catch a thought while it is still a little embarrassing: before the clean vocabulary arrives, before the market map looks obvious, before the joke stops being a clue.
me
I studied computer science at PES University, spent 46 months as a software engineer at Oracle and Intuit, and am now an MBA candidate at IIT Bombay's Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management. I recently finished a summer internship with Accenture Strategy & Consulting in their Communications and Media vertical.
That background has left me with a slightly inconvenient mix of instincts: engineer enough to care how systems actually behave, MBA enough to care where incentives point, and online enough to notice when a meme is doing more explanatory work than a deck.
preoccupations
I keep circling the same kinds of questions. What becomes scarce when intelligence gets cheaper? Why do smart people overbuild tools for small tasks? What do people avoid asking when not knowing has a social cost? Why does a product, country, workflow, or meme suddenly start taking up space in the mind?
The answers here are provisional. The point is not to sound final. The point is to get more precise about the confusion.