I'm Prithvi. I dropped out of a B.Tech to do IIT Madras's online DS program — not because it was easier, but because it let me keep building while I studied. That trade felt obvious. It still does.

In the last two months I've designed grief as a game mechanic in a 12,000-word GDD, built an AI bill scanner and a T&C summarizer, researched whether the mahua tree has an untapped commodity market in Jharkhand, and spent a serious afternoon inside quantum computing — not the overview, the unsolved hardware limits and what breaks at civilisation scale if someone actually crosses them.

That afternoon also went into Ramanujan — specifically how his brain kept computing while his body was asleep, which led to disconnected consciousness research, which led to my own theory about whether a coma could act as a pure focus amplifier if the brain's metabolism stayed intact. I don't know if that's right. I know I couldn't stop until I'd followed it to wherever it ended.

That's the pattern. I enter everything through its most extreme or broken version first. I don't read the introduction — I find the edge case, and understand the center from there.