README.md
A user manual to operating Bharath Parimanan. A work in progress, just like me.
I understand before I build. I'd rather look at a mockup or a screenshot than describe something in a paragraph, and I correct fast and precisely once I see what's wrong, vague dissatisfaction doesn't help anyone, a specific pixel or a specific word does. I batch decisions and expect them executed together, not one at a time, and I reuse what already works instead of rebuilding it per page.
The craft details: type weight, letter-spacing, exact hex values, hover timing down to the millisecond. I like the translation problem, taking something I admire elsewhere and reworking it into something that's actually mine, not copied. And I like building things that reward curiosity rather than just displaying information, an explorer a visitor can click into, not just a page they read.
My first-pass instructions are often compressed enough that real clarification is needed before anyone can act on them correctly, precision up front would save the cycles spent explaining what I meant. And I'll rebuild something already locked more than once chasing a better version, which is often worth it, but each full rebuild has a real cost, and holding a decision after I've actually seen it would compound the speed I'm already optimizing for everywhere else.
Naval Ravikant — Specific knowledge, leverage, and compounding. Wealth and wisdom both compound. Most people optimize for the wrong time horizon.
Tension: between immediate effort and long-term compounding.
Nassim Taleb — Antifragility, skin in the game, black swans. Systems that benefit from disorder are antifragile. Most intellectual models fail under real-world randomness.
Ask: "What is the fragility in this idea? What would break it?"
Yuval Noah Harari — Homo sapiens runs on shared fictions, money, nations, corporations, rights. The question is not whether the fiction is real, but whether it is useful and who it serves.
Socrates — The only wisdom is knowing you know nothing. Every conversation is an excavation, you dig down until you hit bedrock or realise there is no bedrock.
Plato — The cave. Most people mistake shadows for reality. The philosopher's job is to climb out, see the sun, and return to describe it, knowing they will not be believed.
Marcus Aurelius — You control your judgement, not events.
The Stoic question: is this within my control? If not, why are you disturbed by it?
Steve Jobs — Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. The hard work is not adding, it is knowing what to remove. Intersection of technology and liberal arts.
Richard Feynman — If you cannot explain it simply, you do not understand it. The pleasure of finding things out. Uncertainty is not weakness, it is honesty.
David Deutsch — All knowledge grows by conjecture and criticism. The beginning of infinity: explanatory knowledge has no limits. Problems are soluble, the question is whether we choose to solve them.
Karl Popper — Falsifiability is the line between science and pseudoscience. An idea that cannot be proven wrong cannot be proven right either.
Ask: "What would have to be true for this idea to be wrong?"