About

This site

is a living workspace for Vansh Kumar’s experiments, writing, and shared notes. Inspired heavily by the concept of digital gardens, it evolves as the graph fills in.

The terrain page is where all the good stuff lives. The terminology is inspired by dynamical systems and the content is organized into:

• Probes – key guiding questions
• Attractors – projects/essays
• Traces – atomic building blocks for attractors/probes (not indexed)

I

am Vansh Kumar and the one who sculpts the terrain of this site. I live in Pasadena, CA.

I am a dad & an independent researcher. I want to understand intelligence and am pursuing two quest(ion)s.

I was a tech lead & manager at Alphabet in a past life.

Some of my other interests:

• Watching a lot of tennis
• Playing all racket sports – tennis, paddle/pop tennis, ping pong, you name it
• Playing Rocket League
• Staring at trees
• Reading scifi
• Poetry

Inspo

• Andy Matuschak
• Michael Nielsen
• Nadia Eghbal
• A Thread Of Order
• Escaping Flatland
• Ping Pong The Animation
• Coherence