Hi, I’m Shriram.
I build AI agents for enterprise finance.
I also spend a lot of time thinking about why people and organisations behave the way they do. Here I write about what changes when AI starts doing the work, the everyday systems we all depend on, and questions of purpose, love and identity.
LatestWork & Technology
When AI Does the Work
AI can do more than automate existing work. As machines take over tasks, they reveal the hidden assumptions and decisions behind how companies operate.
Selected writing
When Your Mobile Number Becomes Your Identity: A Wake-Up Call
One Saturday my SIM stopped working, and UPI, bank OTPs and logins went with it. How the mobile number became our identity, and a single point of failure.
Why Doesn’t Google Drive Understand Markdown?
As AI makes Markdown more useful for notes and documentation, why does Google Drive still treat Markdown files like plain text instead of documents?
The Season of Emptiness
A season comes when purpose falls silent and the old answers stop working. On waiting, giving up, surrendering, and the discipline of beginning again.
More writing
Work & Technology · Everyday Systems · Reflections
The Shape of Love: Between Freedom, Fear, and Silence
A Coldplay kiss-cam, a resignation and the internet’s hunger for blame. On love that begins where the mind falls quiet, and why that frightens us.
The Mystery of Human Relationships
Friend, family, partner, colleague: the labels never quite fit. Why relationships refuse to stay still, and a better question to ask about them.
FASTag: Convenience or Concern?
Why does a toll tag need your chassis number, and only one per car? What FASTag’s design says about payments built for tracking, not just convenience.
The Four D’s of Life – Disease, Disability, Dependency, and Death
Disease, disability, dependency and death come to all of us. What each one teaches, and why facing them makes for a wiser, kinder life.
Salaar vs. Dunki: A Tale of Two Endings, Beyond the Big Screen
Two Christmas releases, two very different end credits. What the way a film rolls its credits says about leadership, and about who gets seen.
Life File 101: A Blueprint for Organizing Your Life
One master document with everything your family would need about your health, money and legal papers if you could not tell them. How to build a Life File.
The Smell of Money
Indian banknotes are 100% cotton. What money actually smells like (paper, ink, a trace of us) and why the scent stirs such strong feelings.
Identity
Is the apple today the same apple tomorrow? A first-principles look at identity: what keeps a thing itself while its parts and its moment change.
Transliteration of Kannada to English (Latin) ISO 15919 in Python
Romanizing Kannada to ISO 15919 so anyone can read it aloud: why the standard matters, and om-transliterator, the open-source Python package for it.
Dare to Miss a Shot
Waiting for perfect means never starting. Why perfection is a spectrum, and how small, realistic goals get the work done.