Atoms & Me.
From a cold DM to a lifechanging project.
This has been pending for a long time, but I officially ended my 6-month stint as a consultant at Accel by Feb 2025.
We had a fresh website and new social accounts when we started.
After six months of hustle, we have thriving social channels, an engaged community, and a brand we can all brag about forever.
Of course, it was not all me.
But it feels incredibly rewarding to have been part of a team, part of a launch that rethought everything with a fresh lens.
From the design to the launch strategy, I have many insights to share & lessons to take for life.
Personally, the highest of highs was getting the chance to enter the Accel office. I still remember the first time I looked at Accel’s office while driving around the city. It had only been a few months since I had moved to Bangalore, and I told myself, “Someday I will work here.”
Call it universe theory, god, or just dumb luck.
But I am happy to report that dreams come true if you intentionally work towards it.
I still cherish the multiple brainstorming calls/meetings inside their conference rooms. The same conference rooms where million-dollar deals have gone down.
So, what next?
I have no idea.
It feels exciting to be at a point where I have so much specific knowledge & expertise to offer to the humans around me. I also feel privileged to be at a point where multiple people are reaching out, and I can pick the problem statements I want to work on.
This is where I can see glimpses of my work over the last decade starting to pay off.
But I am still conflicted.
I also feel my brain asking me to take a break for the first time. I have been running this guy on hard mode since I started freelancing at 19.
So, I guess it’s only fair to give a short break for this dude.
I recently shared this concept of taking this break with someone, and they asked me - “Oh, so you have sent a fuck you to capitalism then?”
My answer was - “Not exactly.”
For the first time, I genuinely need to slow down and breathe things in before jumping into the next mission.
I know I am still young; this is when you keep hustling.
But an itch in my head is still nudging me to focus on some personal issues and slow down.
Then there is also this entire spectrum around AI that feels like a black box—a black box that, if I navigate now, will give me the first-mover advantage downstream.
Finally, there is also this constant itch to start something of my own.
To use nothing but sweat, blood & tears to mould capital, energy & atoms into something useful for the people around me. The itch to leave a legacy by creating something useful - a product or a service.
Yeah, so I am conflicted between a break, learning about AI & a startup.
Of course, I also understand that it’s not one or the other. There is also the opportunity to build something and go deeper into AI while I take a break from things.
But I don’t think I can answer that today. I guess time will have to answer this one.
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