About
Among all the shounen manga heroes, there is probably none like me. That is just because they haven't started covering scale-ups yet.
I'm from India, and off the clock I'm usually deep in a long shounen manga. Most of the things I love have a slow build and a mechanism hiding underneath.
Work is no different. If anyone asks who I actually am, I'd say I'm the guy asking the meta questions, and finding the problems before they metastasize the production line.
That instinct points inward too. I keep a small, ruthless test whose only job is to kill my own good ideas before they cost me a year. Most of them deserve it.
The most expensive number I ever checked was one of my own. I held an idea I believed in to the same standard I hold everyone else's figures, and it didn't survive. I kept the problem; I let the rest go.
That problem is still the one I'm circling, and it's the shape of what I find fascinating and meaningful: the gap between a number people trust and the one you actually measure, and the quiet craft of making something that worked once work every time.
If this were a manga, I'd be somewhere in the training arc: the long, unglamorous stretch where the reps are the whole plot, powered by dubiously epic music. No complaints. That part was always my favorite. At least until the actual epic music starts and the battle arc begins.