Notes on code,
capital, and the quiet work in between.
Long-form essays from Piyush Jaipuriyar — engineering distributed systems, watching markets without being moved by them, and the occasional book that earned its place on a small shelf.
Currently reading
Most recentAn agent is mostly the shape of its environment.
After a year of building with language models, the things I tune most are not the prompts or the temperature. They are the tools I let the model see.
Read essayThe architecture of calm interfaces.
What happens when you stop measuring engagement, and start measuring whether anyone left the page feeling better than they arrived.
ReadAn annual letter to nobody in particular.
What I learned in 2025 about reading slowly, writing earlier in the day, and the difference between intention and ritual.
ReadThe books that stayed with me this year.
Not most-recommended, not longest, not cleverest. The ones I keep finding myself quoting six months later.
ReadSix months of deep work.
What happens when you schedule 90-minute blocks of focused work.
ReadThe case for monorepos.
When one repository is better than many.
ReadRust for the curious.
A gentle introduction to why Rust's ownership system matters, explained without needing to learn the language first.
ReadA little about me.
I'm Piyush — a software engineer in Bengaluru. I write here on weekends to think more clearly about the systems I build, the markets I watch, and the books that have changed how I work.
Read my story