Hi everyone, This is my first day on Silk, and I'm quite excited to be a part of it's continuing tradition. I'm just writing down a little bit about my life so far to give you guys some context.
I have existed in my current form on this planet for the last 26 years. Growing up in Trivandrum, I subsisted on a regular diet of rice, fish curry, books, and quizzes. At the age of 15, I decided to give music a shot and found my first true love in my (Pluto) guitar. Over the next 7 years, I managed to balance my love of (supposedly) engineering, quizzing, and music , and graduated from IIT Madras (barely) having mostly learnt very little engineering and a lot of music and random trivia. The next 3 years were spent roaming around the hallways of Flipkart supposedly doing marketing. Simultaneously, I joined a metal band called The Down Troddence <https://www.facebook.com/thedowntroddence> in Bangalore, and released an album <https://soundcloud.com/thedowntroddence> with them in 2014 (working on the next one currently). After deciding last year that my calling in life lay somewhat far away from e-commerce, I resigned and have been working on building a product called Wagr <http://wagr.in> to make dog-parenting easier (I adopted a puppy while I was working, and went through hell taking care of it alone). I met Udhay at Axilor where we were being accelerated over the last 3 months :) I'm currently also working on another long term project. It's a musical interpretation of Herman Hesse's Siddhartha, set in a post modern context. Would love to hear your thoughts on this. We're still ideating the exact structure of the project. Apart from the music and Wagr, I spent the rest of my time reading as much as possible on the subjects of AI, consciousness, and reality (quite convinced that we are pretty much in a simulation) Really looking forward to taking part in all the discussions here! PS - You can find some of the other music I've worked on here <https://soundcloud.com/drinvisibleunicorn> and here <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BQWcjzeErs>. Cheers, Advaith Mohan
