https://tejasshirodkar.com/t/ Tejas Shirodkar, founder, technologist, and budding researcher writing about technology, personal philosophy, and understanding understanding. en Thu, 01 Jan 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://tejasshirodkar.com/t/go-slow-to-go-fast.html https://tejasshirodkar.com/t/go-slow-to-go-fast.html Thu, 01 Jan 2026 12:00:00 GMT A hard-earned counter to fail-fast culture: build a solid grasp of context first, so that action, when it comes, is faster. https://tejasshirodkar.com/t/understanding.html https://tejasshirodkar.com/t/understanding.html Thu, 01 Jan 2026 12:00:00 GMT A metacognitive exploration into the nature of understanding itself — what it is, how it is built, and what ultimately limits it. https://tejasshirodkar.com/t/dobism.html https://tejasshirodkar.com/t/dobism.html Sat, 25 Oct 2025 12:00:00 GMT A personal philosophy: take better actions, learn from them, become able to take better actions — a closed loop seeking equilibrium. https://tejasshirodkar.com/t/components-of-happiness.html https://tejasshirodkar.com/t/components-of-happiness.html Tue, 09 Sep 2025 12:00:00 GMT The standard pleasure–flow–purpose model of happiness felt off. A static model works until you know yourself well enough to build a dynamic one. https://tejasshirodkar.com/t/sand-to-band.html https://tejasshirodkar.com/t/sand-to-band.html Fri, 07 Feb 2025 12:00:00 GMT A personal motto for full-stack understanding — from the sand of physics to the bands of meaning and expression. https://tejasshirodkar.com/t/acult.html https://tejasshirodkar.com/t/acult.html Thu, 30 Jan 2025 12:00:00 GMT A lens for learning: understanding is stability. You understand something when small changes don't break your reasoning and the idea transfers to new contexts. https://tejasshirodkar.com/t/values.html https://tejasshirodkar.com/t/values.html Wed, 01 Jan 2025 12:00:00 GMT The concepts I value and aspire to — curiosity, willpower, intellectual honesty, mastery — that anchor how I work and grow. https://tejasshirodkar.com/t/we-dont-need-more-games.html https://tejasshirodkar.com/t/we-dont-need-more-games.html Thu, 31 Oct 2024 12:00:00 GMT I’ve made games all my life — but maybe my last games job. Why the market doesn’t need more games, and why the craft still matters anyway. https://tejasshirodkar.com/t/products-as-windows.html https://tejasshirodkar.com/t/products-as-windows.html Wed, 23 Oct 2024 12:00:00 GMT Design a product like a window — built for a viewer and a context, but needing to adapt as the use changes. A forcing function, from the Playmat post-mortem.