Hi, I’m Vaibhav. Nice to e-meet you.
Not the resume version. Not the LinkedIn one. This is the page I’d want someone to read if they actually wanted to know me.
Everyday.
I keep plants, more than I probably need. Something that grows slowly, quietly, on its own schedule.
I’m based in Noida, which sounds unremarkable until you’ve been here long enough to love it.
A walk before the sunrise
Most mornings start with one. It’s a totally different world when most of the people are asleep.
Kerning on restaurant menus
And when a chair is the wrong height for the table.
The pause before someone says they’re fine
Just how my brain works
These aren’t habits I chose. I’ve stopped trying to turn it off.
Think.
I got into value investing through a rabbit hole I didn’t plan to fall into. What kept me there wasn’t the money. It was the discipline.
The most useful thing I’ve ever learned.
“Pay close attention to what’s actually happening, not just what you expect to see.”
Resist the urge to act
Investing forces you to sit with uncertainty instead of moving just to feel busy.
Where nobody wanted to look
The answer is usually in the thing everyone else has already looked at and moved past.
A typeface is a personality before a word is read
Typography is another version of the same attention. I can’t unsee it. I don’t want to.
Underdogs.
Always have. Maybe it’s the value-investing part of me that believes most things are mispriced, including people.
The founder nobody’s covering yet
The team that just lost three in a row
But plays like they believe.
The typeface no one’s using
The idea that sounds a little too early
“There’s something electric about watching someone prove the room wrong. I want to be in that room.”
Ink.
I have a tattoo. I sat with the idea long enough to know I wasn’t doing it for anyone else.
Hedge
Or wait to see how it lands.
Decide, then live with it
Eventually it stops feeling like a decision and just feels like you.
The things worth doing
Are usually the ones you’d still want even if no one ever knew.
A long time, on purpose
Not hesitation. I wanted to be sure the reason was mine.
Inventory.
An honest list. The things around me say something about what I value, and the ones I haven’t bought yet say something too.
Plus an Amazfit Helio strap, a fitness tracker, on the need list.
House of EM5
haveSony WF-710N
wantMacBook Air M2
haveiPad Air M2
haveSony XM4
haveSnitch
want moreTalk.
Open to senior and lead product design roles in India or remote.