Rajath

A product person with a love for indie rock, I am passionate about infusing creativity in tech. Travelling is my way of unwinding from the monotony of life.

I am living in Bengaluru and I am currently working as a Product Manager at Neosapien.

To Summarise or Not to Summarise?

09 Dec 2025 • 8 min read

Working on AI summarization taught me when summaries help and when they quietly harm. A framework for knowing when to compress and when to go deep.

A Year of Building, Learning, and Redesigning

17 Nov 2025 • 6 min read

A year building AI transcription at NeoSapien - from Shark Tank to 3x DAU growth. Learn about multilingual code-switching, app redesign, and my jou...

Why Great Engineering Starts with a Problem, Not a Code

13 Dec 2024 • 4 min read

Why chasing shiny features won’t save startups. Discover how solving real user pain points can transform engineering into a startup’s superpower.

Kindle is my sleeping pill

14 Sep 2024 • 5 min read

How Kindle became my ultimate sleep aid and travel essential; here's how it changed the way I read.

A Week in Kazakhstan

21 Aug 2024 • 11 min read

Explore my week-long adventure through Kazakhstan's stunning landscapes and vibrant culture, brought to life in 36 captivating photos.

A Weekend in Old Hyderabad with Fujifilm X100vi

20 Jul 2024 • 13 min read

Explore Hyderabad's iconic spots like Charminar and Chowmahalla Palace through my photo essay, capturing the city's rich history and vibrant markets.

Nu Beginnings - My First Gundam Build

06 Jul 2024 • 5 min read

Join me on my first Gundam build adventure, exploring user experience, gamification, and hobbyist insights!

My First Blog Post

24 Jun 2024 • 4 min read

Hello world, bonjour, namaste, hola, hallo, or whatever; welcome to the first of many quirky musings on this blog!

Currently Reading

• How to Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens

Favourite Books

• East of Eden by John Steinbeck
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
• Dune Series by Frank Herbert
• Foundation by Issac Asimov
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
• The Stranger by Albert Camus

History

• The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan
• The Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan
• The Titan’s Curse by Rick Riordan
• The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan
• Starter Villain by John Scalzi
• Looking for Alaska by John Green
• East of Eden by John Steinbeck
• The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
• Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
• The Art of UNIX Programming by Eric S. Raymond
• Deep Work by Cal Newport
• The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher
• Sakina’s Kiss by Vivek Shanbhag
• Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert
• Dune by Frank Herbert
• Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny
• The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy
• The Great Train Journey by Ruskin Bond
• The A.B.C Murders by Agatha Christie
• And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
• Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis
• In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin
• Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
• The Storm Runner by J.C. Cervantes
• The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
• 4 Kids Walk Into A Bank by Mattew Rosenberg
• Lord of the Flies by William Golding
• Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
• Dalit Panthers: An Authoritative History by J.V. Pawar
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
• Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie
• Nimona by N.D. Stevenson
• Art Before Breakfast by Danny Gregory
• A Flowering Tree and Other Oral Tales from India by A.K. Ramanujan
• Atomic Habits by James Clear
• Red Rising by Pierce Brown
• Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz
• The E-myth Revisited by Michael E. Gerber
• Who was Shivaji? by Govind Pansare
• Tintin in the Land of the Soviets by Hergé
• The Princess Bride by William Goldman
• Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon
• The Railway Children by E. Nesbit
• The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss
• Abigail and the Snowman by Roger Langridge
• Daytripper by Fábio Moon
• Wytches by Scott Snyder
• Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman
• Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe
• The Toll by Neal Shusterman
• The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
• Saga, Book Two by Brian K. Vaughan
• Thunderhead by Neal Shusterman
• Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
• Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art by Scott McCloud
• Annihilation of Caste by B.R. Ambedkar
• Uzumaki by Junji Ito
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
• The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
• Saga, Book One by Brian K. Vaughan
• From Hell by Alan Moore
• We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
• Art Matters by Neil Gaiman
• Matilda by Roald Dahl
• Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory by Raphael Bob-Waksberg
• Ashe Warmother Odin by Austin Shafer
• League of Legends: Lux by John O’Bryan
• Persepolis 2 by Marjane Satrapi
• Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
• The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
• The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
• Funny Boy by Shyam Selvadurai
• Love Story by Erich Segal
• Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
• Ashoka: the Search for India’s Lost Emperor by Charles Allen
• Stardust by Neil Gaiman
• Beloved by Toni Morrison
• Scythe by Neal Shusterman
• Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
• Battle Angel Alita by Yukito Kishiro
• Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh
• An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
• The Elephant’s Journey by José Saramago
• Under The Jaguar Sun by Italo Calvino
• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
• Ghachar Ghochar by Vivek Shanbhag
• Akira by Katsuhiro Otomo
• The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
• Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
• The Sandman by Neil Gaiman
• Maus Series by Art Spiegelman
• The Facts In The Case Of The Departure of Miss Finch by Neil Gaiman
• I Killed Adolf Hitler by Jason
• The Collected Essex County by Jeff Lemire
• Origin by Dan Brown
• Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan by Vonda N. McIntyre
• The Trial by Franz Kafka
• The Art of War by Sun Tzu
• The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
• Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
• A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
• The Bourne Ultimatum by Robert Ludlum
• Dark Watch by Clive Cussler
• Ghost World by Daniel Clowes
• The Minority Report by Philip K. Dick
• Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
• Batman: A Death in the Family by Jim Starlin
• The Client by John Grisham
• 1984 by George Orwell
• Inca Gold by Clive Cussler
• 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
• The Godfather by Mario Puzo
• N or M? by Agatha Christie
• The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum
• Temple by Matthew Reilly
• Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
• Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
• The Matarese Circle by Robert Ludlum
• Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
• The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens
• Deception Point by Dan Brown
• Last Man Standing by David Baldacci
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker
• Raven’s Gate by Anthony Horowitz
• Angels & Demons by Dan Brown
• The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
• Watchmen by Alan Moore
• Karvalo by K.P. Poornachandra Tejaswi
• Fire Ice by Clive Cussler
• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
• Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne