hi, i am sajal and this is the place that'll have all of my digital footprint? ugh my twitter has that. okay so maybe this is the place which will have thoughts unrolled from my head? got substack for that as well. umm maybe my projects? github got that. so idk for what use-case am i creating this personal website but i've always wanted to create one and it looks fun and having fun is legit a good use-case (a recent discovery) so here this is. why are you still here, reading this, this is the most boring section probably, go on to some other sections, i am out of thoughts here.
currently spending most of my time in ai research and getting my skillset good enough to work with a cracked team on interesting/tough problems.
apart from it - movies, f1, gym, experimenting with cocktails, shitposting on my alt (twitter).
updates
- aug 2024 started working full time as an ai engineer, primarily working on document intelligence, finetuning llms, shipped 10+ mvps
- jan 2024 needed an intern badly to get out of college and fate had ai for me, started as an ai intern (no background knowledge)
- oct 2023 full stack intern at a blockchain company, was rewriting their codebase in react and backend contracts in solidity
things i believe in currently
everything is a side quest.
i have started treating every single thing i do/want to do as a side quest. makes me less stressed about things which are very important for me, which further makes it easier for me to do those things.
moving from "fear" based to "curiosity" based actions.
linked to the above point, everything i probably did was out of fear, to be not left behind in a race which doesn't really exist. so now that my basic needs are fulfilled (maslow's law), i am trying to spend time with things that makes my brain hard, may not have any ulterior outcome, fills my curiosity.
life is a game.
i think this deserves a completely separate page, i have lots of thoughts on this one. but one thing i would like to leave here is, if you are playing your bit in a game, why don't you choose to be a character with lots of confidence and competence.
nothing matters, but one must imagine sisyphus happy.
i have spent most of my time in the last few years thinking about purpose of life and god and my current checkpoint is - nothing really matters, but not in a pessimistic way, in an optimistic way actually. don't think about things not in your control and try to funmaxx.
you can just do things.
"locking in" is not a feeling, it's a decision. make it.
you don't get what you want, you get who you are.
i am going to leave this one for you to think about.