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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 ‘Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa’, completed earlier this year.
currently reading
- On the shortness of life: Seneca
- A different kind of power: Jacinda Ardern
recently read
- The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion: Jonathan Haidt
- Algorithms to live by: Brian Christian
- Time Anxiety: Chris Gillibeau
- The Let them theory: Mel Robbins
- No Rules Rules: Reed Hastings and Erin Meyer
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- 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
- On War: Carl von Clausewitz
- Tools for Thought: CH Waddington
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 (weekly, random) with notebooks, pocket notes; and day one
- 📑 blog with mataroa.blog
- ☑️ tasks with things 3
- 📷 photos with snap.as
last updated on April 12, 2026 • page inspired by Derek Sivers