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Building thoughtful software, writing notes, and shipping experiments across data, AI, and the web.

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Sarath Tharayil

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I build things with data and code, usually end-to-end. I ship side projects at odd hours, care a lot about how things feel to use, and tend to go deep on whatever has my attention. Lately that's been AI systems, and ideas that don't sound terrible.

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The Struggle Is Real, and That's the PointBen Horowitz wrote the leadership book I wish existed before I ever had to make a hard call. Notes on The Struggle, radical honesty, and why protecting your team from bad news is the worst thing you can do.
Apr 17, 2026
The Court That Proved the Textbook RightIndia's Supreme Court banned an NCERT civics chapter for saying the judiciary can be corrupt. The chapter quoted their own sitting Chief Justice. What followed made the chapter's point better than the chapter ever could.
Apr 14, 2026
How India's North-South Divide Was BuiltThe North-South divide isn't geography. It's the result of colonial land systems, a disastrous freight policy, and radically different bets on human capital. Here's how two Indias were made.
Apr 11, 2026
My Friend Wrote About Love and LanguageYahvi compared love to language , how it evolves, gets forgotten, and takes on dialects over time. Here's what that made me realise about the people I've lost fluency in.
Apr 10, 2026
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Continuum-I wanted a calmer way to track my life than Notion's LifeOS. So I'm building a dashboard to monitor time, energy, mood, and progress, shaped around real days instead of templates.sneak peek◆Continuum-I wanted a calmer way to track my life than Notion's LifeOS. So I'm building a dashboard to monitor time, energy, mood, and progress, shaped around real days instead of templates.sneak peek◆
Continuum-I wanted a calmer way to track my life than Notion's LifeOS. So I'm building a dashboard to monitor time, energy, mood, and progress, shaped around real days instead of templates.-sneak peek

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2026.04.17
The Struggle Is Real, and That's the Point

SUMMARY:

Ben Horowitz wrote the leadership book I wish existed before I ever had to make a hard call. Notes on The Struggle, radical honesty, and why protecting your team from bad news is the worst thing you can do.

TOPICS:

LeadershipBooksMindsetCareer

AUTHOR:

Sarath Tharayil

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2026.04.14
The Court That Proved the Textbook Right

SUMMARY:

India's Supreme Court banned an NCERT civics chapter for saying the judiciary can be corrupt. The chapter quoted their own sitting Chief Justice. What followed made the chapter's point better than the chapter ever could.

TOPICS:

IndiaPoliticsDemocracyLaw

AUTHOR:

Sarath Tharayil

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2026.04.11
How India's North-South Divide Was Built

SUMMARY:

The North-South divide isn't geography. It's the result of colonial land systems, a disastrous freight policy, and radically different bets on human capital. Here's how two Indias were made.

TOPICS:

IndiaFederalismPolicy

AUTHOR:

Sarath Tharayil

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2026.04.10
My Friend Wrote About Love and Language

SUMMARY:

Yahvi compared love to language , how it evolves, gets forgotten, and takes on dialects over time. Here's what that made me realise about the people I've lost fluency in.

TOPICS:

ReflectionLanguageLove

AUTHOR:

Sarath Tharayil

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2026.04.02
Be Delusional, What If It Actually Works Out!

SUMMARY:

A short note on useful delusion, public embarrassment, and why betting on yourself is often less ridiculous than it looks.

TOPICS:

MindsetCareerGrowth

AUTHOR:

Sarath Tharayil

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2026.03.26
Kerala Assembly Election 2026 Insights

SUMMARY:

A quick breakdown of how I built my Kerala election reference tool, what the model uses, and where it can be wrong.

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Side ProjectKeralaExplainer

AUTHOR:

Sarath Tharayil

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2026.03.24
Kerala Election Data Webapp

SUMMARY:

Comprehensive Kerala assembly election explorer with historical analysis and ML-backed 2026 prediction views.

TOPICS:

ElectionKeralaNext.jsMachine Learning

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2026.02.18
Continuum

SUMMARY:

Personal life OS built to track mood, energy, schedule, and activity time in one continuous daily system.

TOPICS:

Next.jsProductivitySupabaseTypescript

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