Recently, I've begun studying AI and IT in earnest.
"AI can do so much for us now—so why learn programming and coding?"
Some people might wonder exactly that.
But the reason I'm studying AI and IT isn't simply to build convenient systems.
What I truly want to create are systems that give meaning and an entry point to value that has not yet taken shape.
Works of art. Music. Stories. Human talent. Places and landscapes.
These things already exist.
But without a way for people to discover them, they are, in many ways, invisible to society.
So my work is to:
Give them a name.
Give them a story.
Create their visual identity.
Build the systems that support them.
And most importantly, create a doorway through which people can participate.
The moment that doorway exists, something that was previously unseen begins to move as part of reality itself.
Since I started learning coding, my brain has occasionally struggled to keep up with the sheer amount of information.
Sometimes, when I open my eyes, I briefly see streams of numbers. At other times, when I'm half-asleep, I even catch what looks like barcodes.
When I mentioned this to a friend, they laughed and said,
"Sounds like you're living inside The Matrix."
That comment led me to explore the philosophy that inspired The Matrix: the work of the French philosopher Jean Baudrillard.
In his 1981 book Simulacra and Simulation, he proposed an idea that I find deeply fascinating.
In modern society, reality itself is no longer what shapes our world.
Information.
Symbols.
Images.
These have become the forces that construct reality.
Take social media, for example.
A profile isn't the person.
A photograph.
A job title.
A follower count.
Posts.
An aesthetic.
None of these are the whole individual.
They are carefully edited fragments.
Yet today, those edited fragments reach us before the actual person does.
Long before we ever meet someone, we've already formed an image of who they are.
Brands work in much the same way.
We may think we're buying a handbag or a piece of clothing, but what we're really purchasing is the story and the values attached to it.
The same is true of the news.
We rarely experience events themselves.
Instead, we experience someone else's edited version of those events.
AI-generated imagery blurs the boundary even further.
The people may not exist.
The places may never have existed.
The moment in time may be entirely fictional.
Yet people are moved by these images.
They find them beautiful.
They imagine futures because of them.
Something that isn't real can still evoke very real emotions.
That is the age we now live in.
In some ways, that's a little unsettling.
We're remarkably easy to influence through constructed realities.
But I don't see this as something to fear.
I see extraordinary potential.
If information has the power to shape reality, then surely it can also reveal value that has simply remained unnoticed.
AI and IT become tools for doing exactly that.
To me, technology isn't about replacing people.
It's about making human potential visible.
There is, however, one principle I want to hold onto.
No matter how advanced AI becomes...
No matter how sophisticated our technology grows...
Human beings are still the ones who must live reality.
That is why I want the foundations of every system I build to rest upon the wisdom and philosophy of ancient India.
Nature has laws.
The seasons have rhythms.
Each person is born with their own inherent nature.
The universe moves according to vast cycles.
These observations have been refined over thousands of years.
In many ways, they form a blueprint for what it means to be human.
AI is a technology of the future.
Indian philosophy is wisdom refined across millennia.
At first glance, they appear to stand at opposite ends of history.
I don't see them that way.
When future technology works in harmony with the laws of nature, we can create something far more meaningful than systems designed merely for efficiency.
We can build systems that help people develop the potential they already possess.
That is the future I want to help design.
Interestingly, coding and Vedic astrology share more similarities than most people would imagine.
Both are languages built by combining rules into larger structures.
Neither can be understood properly by looking at isolated parts—you have to grasp the architecture of the whole.
As a harpist, I realised this long ago.
Before playing a single note, the very first thing I write onto the score is the pedal markings.
Only after understanding the overall structure can the individual notes make sense.
Coding feels exactly the same.
So does Vedic astrology.
Even debugging code reminds me of resolving karma.
Both involve identifying hidden causes, tracing interconnected patterns, and correcting the underlying structure rather than merely fixing the symptoms.
Perhaps that also explains why my brain briefly started projecting a Matrix-like world onto reality!
Once you hear it that way, it sounds a little less strange... or perhaps a little more. (Laughs.)
So yes...
Within the next year, this website is going to change dramatically.
That's exactly why I'm studying all of this now.
I hope you'll continue watching the journey with kindness and curiosity.
And I hope you'll look forward to the services, ideas, and experiences that will continue to evolve from here.
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