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      <title><![CDATA[Themes in AI]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Over the last few weeks, I’ve talked with investors at an assortment of PE firms. In every conversation, I’ve typically asked about how their respective firms viewed the conventional AI boom. This was especially because I knew that some PE firms were beginning to invest in model providers, etc. From...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Emotions]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Something I have been thinking about is the complexity of certain emotions like nostalgia or jealousy and why, to the best of my knowledge and research, it is difficult for AI to replicate that. I have thought of a few reasons why. First, AI really doesn’t have a continuous self over time. Nostalgia...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Yoga and Investing]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Is there alignment between meditation and investing? As Patanjali's Yogasutras describes, true yoga is the cessation of all thought. That does not mean you should aspire to be an unassuming, mindless log, not worried about anything that comes your way. Perhaps this quote helps: "The conjunction betw...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Intellectual Honesty]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[I recently had a discussion with a mentor about the notion of being intellectually honest. Of late, I have been wondering if technology growth/venture investing prevents you from truly being intellectually honest. There are several aspects of this job that I struggle to fully understand. How much of...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Investor's Dilemma]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[I am slightly troubled with the idea that technology investing is nothing but a crude, self-fulfilling way for previously successful founders to fund the next versions of themselves. I’m not expressing my issues with investors looking for patterns when they invest – pattern recognition is necessary ...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Future of SaaS]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Many think that we are approaching the decline of software-as-a-service businesses as a whole. Once Claude Cowork launched its 11 vertical-specific agents, the market reacted fast and hard: within the first trading week this February, the public market lost $1.2 trillion in value. So far, I believe ...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Thoughts on Religion]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[My name is Araash, and I’m a junior studying at Wharton. I grew up in New Jersey. While my mom is Sikh and my dad is Hindu, I started out kindergarten in a Catholic school — my dad had gone to Catholic school from K–12 in India, and he wanted me to have a similar experience. Though I enjoyed it and ...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[World Labs: Looking Ahead]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Note: I'm starting to get the hand of writing in markdown... What World Labs Is Likely Focused on in the Near Term These are not claims about World Labs’ internal roadmap, but my attempt to reason from the company’s public thesis, early product choices, and what I've learned regarding the technical ...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Superagency]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[I recently completed Reid Hoffman's Superagency. It was a great book. I'll detail some interesting points worth noting below. First, since the 1980s, US GDP per capita has risen at a rate ~1.3x that of US median income (see the graph below).  !US GDP per capita vs median household income I suspect t...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Modern Digital World]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[This is a work-in-progress. This is an attempt for me to go over all of the players in what is being defined as the modern digital world [in one stack]. Everything I care about fits into this system: 1. Energy & Physics 2. Semiconductors 3. Compute Hardware (CPU / GPU) 4. Memory & Interconnect 5. Se...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[A Second Look at AI for Finance]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[In earlier writing, I related AI in finance as settling into three layers: research, diligence, and execution. I still find that framework helpful, but it is increasingly clear that it is more of a starting point than a lasting separation. Companies are moving fast across layers, and what matters mo...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Buddhism]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[I attended a two-hour Buddhist meditation workshop last Sunday, held in a church hall by two monks from Sri Lanka. I went with my parents and my girlfriend. We were the only young people there. The lead monk was surprisingly relatable. He mentioned growing up loving video games and computers, which ...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Long Only Funds]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[I had the good fortune of sitting in on Abdiel Capital's info session on campus. Abdiel is a hedge fund that only takes long positions, and they are one of the rare, deeply concentrated value-oriented firms with an exceptional, tight-knit team. They focus heavily on understanding product development...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[My Investing Principles]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[On the plane back from SF this past summer, I wrote down in my notebook some important conclusions from my summer at ICONIQ.    Have a high bar – with companies and with people. From your first encounter with something/someone, have you learned something?   Business acumen can relay to technical acu...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[On AI Copilots for Finance]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 23 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[For a while, I have been interested about how AI is reorganizing knowledge work in finance. It all started in my sophomore year when I got a tour of the Farsight office. At this point, the market feels like it is settling into three layers: research, diligence, and execution. Research includes compa...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Prediction Markets]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[I have been tracking the dynamics between Kalshi and Polymarket, and something interesting is happening. Kalshi should actually be happy about Polymarket gaining traction. Competition strengthens legitimacy, encourages clearer regulation, and expands the number of people who become aware of event ma...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Issues with YC]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[I’ve been thinking a lot about how homogenized the global startup ecosystem has become. The accelerator model scaled the playbook for launching companies, but in doing so it also standardized the kinds of founders VCs see, the narratives they bet on, and the cadence of capital allocation. Demo days ...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Open Source]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[I read something recently that clarified a tension I have been thinking about in the AI ecosystem. Open source is likely to win the model layer, but it probably will not win the money. Groups like Stability and Mistral are pushing the frontier on openness and shaping many of the standards the rest o...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[As We Get Smarter]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[I was chatting with one of my friends recently. As we become more educated, our lessons/learnings seem very interestingly apparent to the average person. In other words, it feels that as we develop insight and can recognize the nuances and details of something, we ultimately come to a conclusion tha...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Thinking About Ego]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[I would rather have more of an ego than less. I believe that if you apply ego the right way – in that it encourages you to back what you say (be more smart, confident, etc.) – it can be a huge help. The issue comes at balancing what might tip someone over the edge in perceiving you as overly confide...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Taking Inspiration]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[I always notice that the exchange students at school are more engaged, on average. Perhaps a better framework for approaching school is to think like you're on exchange – this is your one semester to really embrace what it means to go to a school like Penn. We are surrounded by objectively high-achi...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Start]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[This is my first note on this site. I built araashahuja.com as a quiet corner to write about things i’m learning. It’s mostly for myself, but if you’re reading this — welcome.   Over the next week, i’ll be porting over a few pieces i’ve written before and starting to share new ones as they come....]]></description>
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