Hey! I’m Vihaan.
You’ve stumbled across the very messy forest of my notes. They’re pretty weird. Some notes address an imaginary reader, others are to myself, and some are statements and don’t address anyone in particular. I’ve only recently made these notes public, so many of them will probably be illegible to you (and grammar mistakes will be abundant; I write these with the same frame of mind I use when writing text messages). Andy Matuschak and Jacky Zhao inspired me to begin writing these notes, so reading the former’s explanation of his notes might help you better understand what this is meant to be. In general, you should probably avoid notes tagged empty and be wary of notes tagged unfinished. For more polished writing, see my Substack .
I think a lot about topics that interest me, so knowing more about me would probably help you get a grasp of the types of notes I would write about (because I’m a stochastic parrot, seeing my information diet would probably help as well).
Right now, I’m fascinated by AI/ML-adjacent courses, competitive programming puzzles, modern history, game theory, macroeconomics, and building prototypes of tools that can augment cognition (this is adjacent to the field of Human-computer interaction) with particular interests in information retrieval, search, and future operating systems. I’m also fascinated by communities and making the experiences of expert community builders more legible. I want to build the kind of social infrastructure for “sparkly” people that’s been missing for a lot of my life, and in that vein I’m also interested in wider education reform. I’m a passionate user of spaced repetition systems, and I use them to do interesting things like changing the way I think and changing the way I see myself.
See Projects for a /now + vague list of old projects + planned upcoming projects.
Getting started:
Sidenote: I’m generally super interested in one thing at a time with tons of side interests, and I’m constantly looking for cool things that I might want to work on. Let me know if there’s an underrated field that you love and wish more people worked on.
More housekeeping
- Lingo
- TFT in place of tools for thought
- Pesky bugs I’ll fix (eventually)
- The note dates update every time I sync with my Obsidian notes (which is everyday), so the dates for every note will almost always be within the last few days.
- If you want to talk about anything interesting that you find in these notes, email me at vihaansondhi07@gmail.com. I’m also always looking for book recs, so I’d love to follow you on Hardcover.