My Interests 🤔

The world is an incredible place, and being alive is a gift. I have more interests than I could possibly cover here, but here are a few that keep me thinking.

If you know me, you know I LOVE technology. It’s not easy to stay current while navigating a full-time PhD, but I do my best to keep up with my favorite corners of the internet—GitHub, Hugging Face, a few choice blogs, and some criminally underrated YouTube channels. I try to add at least one new tool to my workflow each month, though my “to-try” list has taken on a life of its own. Call it over-engineering, but I’ll happily spend hours refining a process just to save a few minutes later.

I also have a bit of a thing for Vim. Yes, that Vim—the editor with the steep learning curve and the cult following. I almost got a :wq tattoo during the pandemic; my girlfriend (wisely) talked me out of it. Let’s just say I feel more at home in a terminal than a GUI. CLI »> GUI is a hill I’m (solely 🥲) willing to die on.

When I’m AFK, I love wandering around LA—often with no real destination in mind. I’ll hop on a bus or a train just to see what’s out there. There’s something strangely peaceful about watching people live their lives in motion. That small, unscripted humanity. I’m fascinated by urbanism—cities as living, breathing artifacts of the people who shape them. Cities are awesome. People are awesome. Businesses are awesome. The only thing that’s not awesome? Cars (unless they’re self-driving 👀).

There’s a quieter side to all this too. I spend a lot of time just thinking. No input, no output. Just letting my mind roam until something clicks into place. I love watching documentaries, reading about world history, and sinking into long, winding conversations with friends that blur time. I’m interested in how people make sense of things, and I find it just as important to do that work alone as I do with others.

And of course, I feel incredibly lucky to share this life with my girlfriend— one of the most important fundamental constants of the universe for me.

Then there’s daydreaming. I’ve spent a good chunk of my life with my head in the clouds, and I plan to keep it that way. It’s how I make sense of the present, reimagine the past, and chart out the next maybe.

And when I need to unplug from all of it, you’ll probably find me playing soccer, going on LONG walks, or biking across the city. If you’re in LA, check out CicLAvia—it’s a rare chance to see the streets take a deep breath. If you’re not in LA, maybe start something like it where you are.

I’ve always been drawn to the minds that shaped the world—mathematicians, scientists, engineers, philosophers, business leaders. People who asked hard questions and tried to answer them. With so many stories out there, I’m convinced boredom is just a lack of curiosity.

So, here’s to curiosity, to the endless parade of interests, and to tossing in my দুই টাকা—because honestly, why settle for one passion when you can collect them like medals?