i'm prithvi. i dropped out of a b.tech and joined iit madras BS in Data Science and Application. it's not that i hate offline classes; it's that the system feeds the same pre-trained data to every student. they optimize for memorization, not thinking. it was a bottleneck, and i refuse to be limited. not coming from a rich background, i just needed the iit network to scale my ideas. i'm not here to compete with anyone; i'm here to solve the gaps nobody has mapped yet. that trade felt obvious. it still does.

In the last two months I've designed grief as a game mechanic in a 12,000-word GDD, built an AI bill scanner and a T&C summarizer, researched whether the mahua tree has an untapped commodity market in Jharkhand, and spent a serious afternoon inside quantum computing — not the overview, the unsolved hardware limits and what breaks at civilisation scale if someone actually crosses them.

That afternoon also went into Ramanujan — specifically how his brain kept computing while his body was asleep, which led to disconnected consciousness research, which led to my own theory about whether a coma could act as a pure focus amplifier if the brain's metabolism stayed intact. I don't know if that's right. I know I couldn't stop until I'd followed it to wherever it ended.

That's the pattern. I enter everything through its most extreme or broken version first. I don't read the introduction — I find the edge case, and understand the center from there.