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Hi, I'm Vigneshwar Shankar!
I enjoy reading, writing, travel and photography.
At work, I lead Operations at exponent energy.
Reading
I read non-fiction way more than fiction. My last fiction title was ‘Siddartha by Herman Hesse’, completed earlier this year.
currently reading
- Namma Bangalore: The Soul of a Metropolis: Shoba Narayan
- The Visionaries: Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil and the Salvation of Philosophy: Wolfram Eilenberger
- HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself, Vol. 2: Harvard Business Review
- The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion: Jonathan Haidt
- On War: Carl von Clausewitz
- Tools for Thought: CH Waddington
- The Importance of Being Earnest: Oscar Wilde
recently read
- Hyperfocus: Chris Bailey
- Humble Inquiry: The Gentle Art of Asking Instead of Telling: Edgar H Schein.
- Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You: Ray Bradbury
- On Violence: Hannah Arendt
- Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in
- Poland: Christopher R Browning
- The Design of Everyday Things: Donald A Norman
Writing
I write to trace my own thinking — recording observations, reflections, and experiments. This is a record of learning, reasoning, and trying to act with clarity and composure.
Others may find insight here, but its true purpose is to map the evolution of my own mind.
Travel
last trip was to the temple town of Kumbakonam and many temples around it
PKM stack
- 🌳 focussed writing with iA writer
- 📖 durable notes with notes
- 📘 journal (daily, monthly, random) with physical journals; and day one
- 📑 blog with mataroa.blog
- ☑️ tasks with things 3
- 📷 photos with snap.as
last updated on Oct 24, 2025 • page inspired by Derek Sivers