Hi! I'm Shreyas. I'm a Product Manager working at Springer Nature. I like trying to understand the world, building things that improve it, and talking about it on the Internet.
I like creating things—essays, websites, scripts, products. Anything which is positive sum, and impactful.
Writing is thinking. It's something I deeply enjoy. 10 years from now, or a 100, It might probably outlive me. This is an attempt at that posterity. I write about what I'm building, what I'm learning, and the ideas I'm exploring:
This is one of my favourite ideas from Shane Parrish Mental Models book which I read recently, and it’s so applicable, that it doesn’t exist to me as this abstract idea which seldom translates to the reality.. it’s very tangible.. The map is never be the territory. In other words, the “description” of the thing, is not the thing in itself. So, the Argentinian writer Luis Borges, in his brilliant...
Today I want to talk about Hegelian dialectics.. it might actually sound like an obscure term, but let me try enticing you a bit first as to why you'd want to.. You have an interesting thought in your head, and you want to get it out there, open, out in the internet. It's spiky, and has all the right characteristics for titillating the audience, hoping to convince the reader of an opinion. When...
I've recently been interested in what the new way of product development, aka "process", would or might look like. I'm highly skeptical about the traditional product design process which looks like a double diamond loop, and don't think that would remain as it is in 2026 and beyond. Everything is breaking apart (or) evolving, and I don't think the double diamond as a gold standard would remain in...