Ariyan and Kush grinning at night outside a bar strung with red and green holiday lights — winter break: broken bikes, hotel-lobby hq, smartglasses with kush

Ariyan in a mirror selfie with a cap and crossbody bag, holding a red tote, off to pitch — flew to memphis to pitch pathlight

Black-and-white selfie of Ariyan and two friends collapsed on a beanbag, one asleep in an eye mask — spring break: ron's floor, athletic-dining food, and PATH

Ariyan in an elevator mirror carrying a huge hiking backpack on his back and a second pack on his front — somewhere between airports, fully loaded

The Taj Mahal seen at a distance through gardens at hazy golden hour, framed by trees with birds in the foreground — hazy morning across the yamuna

Big Ben's gilded clock face and spire rising over the Gothic stonework of the Palace of Westminster — big ben doing its golden hour thing

St Pancras station's Gothic red brick clock tower silhouetted against a pastel sunset with an Underground roundel glowing below — st pancras as the sky went pink

The Anchor pub in Southwark with brick walls, red window frames, hanging flower baskets, and the Shard rising behind — a pub older than the country i live in

Whatifwebuiltfor people?

Builder across hardware and software. I get too many ideas to build at once — so they live in a box downstairs. If one sparks something in you, say hi and let's talk.

go see the box

me, verified. (santorini)

The short version

I'mAriyanPatel.Ipaycloseattentiontohowthingsaroundmeactuallywork,andIkeepaskingoneannoyingquestion:isthisoptimal,ordidwejustgetusedtoit?Istudyelectricalengineering,I'vebuiltalotofsoftware,andmyfavoriteideascomefromcarryinglogicacrossdisciplinesuntilsomethingsparks.RightnowmostofmyenergygoesintoPathlight—accessibility-firstAIbuiltwithblindandlow-visionusers—buttheboxbelowholdseverything:hardware,software,systems,andthethinkingbehindthem.Becausetheideaisonlyhalfthework.Theotherhalfisfindingthearchitecturethatmakesitinevitable.Openthebox.

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WHAT IF —IDEA Nº 001OPTIMAL, OR JUST FAMILIAR?WHAT IF —BUILT, NOT LISTEDIDEA Nº 014WHAT IF —SAY IT BACK TO MEIDEA Nº 042WHAT IF —IDEA Nº 001OPTIMAL, OR JUST FAMILIAR?WHAT IF —BUILT, NOT LISTEDIDEA Nº 014WHAT IF —SAY IT BACK TO MEIDEA Nº 042WHAT IF —IDEA Nº 001OPTIMAL, OR JUST FAMILIAR?WHAT IF —BUILT, NOT LISTEDIDEA Nº 014WHAT IF —SAY IT BACK TO MEIDEA Nº 042WHAT IF —IDEA Nº 001OPTIMAL, OR JUST FAMILIAR?WHAT IF —BUILT, NOT LISTEDIDEA Nº 014WHAT IF —SAY IT BACK TO MEIDEA Nº 042

The box

Everything I've built, am building, and can't stop thinking about — one box.