About

Aban

19 • Ottawa 🇨🇦 • Bangalore 🇮🇳

BITS Pilani • SST

Building tools that extend human potential

Who Am I?

I think deeply about technology's role in human agency. Currently studying Computer Science at BITS Pilani while engineering at Scaler School of Technology. After my first year at Carleton, I chose to forge my own path—true autonomy means having the courage to write your own story.

What Drives Me

Philosophy & Consciousness AI/ML & Cybersecurity Human-Computer Interfaces Open Source vs Surveillance Capitalism Psychoanalysis Decentralized Systems Ray Peat Bioenergetics Austrian Economics

Technology Arsenal

🐍
Python
🔥
PyTorch
🔌
Arduino
🍓
Raspberry Pi
⚙️
Rust
📘
TypeScript

Physical Practice

240 KG Deadlift 1RM
100 KG Clean Complex
120 KG Farmer Walk (30s)

Olympic lifting. Discipline in physical training translates to intellectual rigor.

"Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate."
— Carl Jung

On Autonomy

True autonomy isn't about rejecting all external influence—it's about consciously choosing which influences align with your values. Most people mistake busyness for agency, confusing motion with meaningful action. The autodidact builds their own curriculum; the autonomous person builds their own world.

Build Don't Settle
Act Don't Wait
Shape Don't Follow

Influences

Books

The Iliad
Homer
"Rage—Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus' son Achilles."
~8th century BC
The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas
"All human wisdom is contained in these two words: Wait and Hope."
1844
Reign of Quantity
René Guénon
"Modern civilization has lost all sense of the sacred."
1945
Industrial Society
Theodore Kaczynski
"The system does not and cannot exist to satisfy human needs."
1995
Theodore Roosevelt Biography
Edmund Morris
"Far better it is to dare mighty things than to take rank with those poor timid spirits."
2001
Nassim Taleb Works
Nassim Taleb
"The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary."
2001-2018
The Red Book
Carl Jung
"The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are."
2009

Films

Zorba the Greek
"A man needs a little madness, or else he never dares cut the rope and be free."
1964
Fight Club
"You are not your job, you're not how much money you have in the bank."
1999
Cars
"Speed. I am speed."
2006
Limitless
"I don't have delusions of grandeur, I have an actual recipe for grandeur."
2011
Whiplash
"There are no two words in the English language more harmful than 'good job'."
2014

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