About

Origin

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I'm Prerit Khanna. This site is a notebook with many sections — projects in motion, essays, threads I keep pulling on, books worth pressing into your hand. It exists because the alternative — picking one identity and pretending the rest don't exist — got tiring.

The short version: I want to be good at several things over a long enough time that the breadth becomes real depth. Anime taught me to state the ambition flatly. Da Vinci taught me to be patient with it. Most days I'm somewhere between those two.

Beliefs

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• Build first; depth comes after, never before.
• The unfinished is part of the work.
• Earnestness, properly handled, is uncool. That's the point.
• Slowness is a value, not a failure mode.
• Most things worth doing take longer than the impatient version of yourself can stand.

Influences

Three figures define the shape of the ambition: Naruto, Luffy, and Leonardo da Vinci. What they share is unembarrassed wanting. None of them perform coolness. None of them couch their ambition. They're all in motion, all earnest, all outwardly trying.

Five additional figures whose work models pieces of this:

• Richard Feynman — playful polymath, foundations-from-scratch, willing to look stupid in pursuit of understanding.
• Anthony Bourdain — earned breadth across food, writing, travel, culture; comedy and seriousness in the same sentence.
• Maggie Appleton — the canonical polymath digital garden as form. Direct study material for what this site can be.
• Patrick Collison — founder-as-intellectual; public reading lists; cross-domain curiosity made habit.
• Brian Eno — generative across forms; A Year With Swollen Appendices as the model of a polymath's working diary.

Reversals

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A running list of "I changed my mind about X."

• Used to think personal sites were vanity. Now think they're how you keep the long arc honest.
• Used to think credentials were the prerequisite for serious work. Now think the work itself is the credential, and starting before you feel ready is the whole game.

Acknowledgments

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Real humans who saw something in me before there was much to see. To be filled in carefully, with their permission, when this section is written for real.

FAQ

Empty at launch. Questions earn their place by being asked more than once.

Colophon

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