hi! i'm radha. i'm based in new york and boston.

i work because i desperately want to figure things out. beyond how systems behave, i wonder why people believe what they believe, why civilizations drift toward certain futures, how things work the way they do at the lower levels. curiosity has been my insatiable, noetic inquiry (more on noesis later).

the defining quality of my life is obsession. i disappear into things, i'll focus on a thing so intently that nothing else matters for hours or days. hours become structurally irrelevant when i'm deconstructing an idea to its edge. i'm drawn to people who care intensely...the kind of people who treat conviction as a responsibility instead of an aesthetic.

right now, i'm especially interested in compute markets & energy efficiency for AI (across software, hardware, and clean power infra for data centers) alongside questions around epistemics, simulacra, and ontology for ai alignment. i care about systems that scale without eroding truth or access. energy equity and access to compute feels inseparable from the future of intelligence.

i admire epistemic virtue, asymmetric risk-taking, neural coevolution, the red queen theory, and people who can hold contradictory ideas long enough for something better to emerge. i care more about resonance than consensus.

i love japanese tea gardens, stationery stores, calligraphy ink on rough paper, masala chai, m.c. escher, passionfruit, skiing, and purple popcorn.

someday i want to skydive, host a popup home café, and master how to make burrata that doesn't just end up being stracciatella.

notes

you only get something like 30,000 days on this earth. i believe life is too short to have potential. potential, on its own, is a beautifully packaged lie. the map is not the territory (alfred korsybski); the distribution is not the random variable. in parallel, potential is not the same as doing the thing; potential is energy that hasn't been expended yet. i'm a;ways trying to expend my potential.

i think humanity is a species profoundly loss averse. entire institutions are built around preserving yesterday's assumptions. but the world belongs to people willing to enter the cone of plausibility before consensus catches up. optimism is often a self-fulfilling prophecy and has shaped history more often than we admit.

"noesis" comes from the ancient Greek word νοεῖν (noein), to perceive or to think. in Platonic philosophy it pointed to the highest form of knowing: the direct apprehension of truth, beyond inference and opinion. i think it becomes most relevant in the context of modern rationality, where so much of what passes for reasoning is actually post-hoc justification, social signaling, or coherence maintenance rather than genuine contact with truth. as I understand it, noesis is how we resist that drift