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Embedded Systems and 9 year old!

Sunday, Jul 10, 2022

My nephew programmed a CPU when he was 9 (during the lock down). He stater with learning C, CPUs and moved to learning programming in Python (and coding a neural network). This note captures the details of how he did it, what helped and what didn’t …

Piyush Itankar
12 minute read
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How I got into Google!

Wednesday, Jul 7, 2021

Been getting a lot of questions about how embedded systems interviews are at Google. Here is a detailed note on my inteview experience at Google from 2019 for the L3 role …

Piyush Itankar
33 minute read
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Stranded

Saturday, Apr 17, 2021

Those who suffer, suffer in silence! There is Dragon in the house! And it has been growing bigger for the past five years. Of the six years that we are in a relationship, only the first was blissful. The remainder five - an agony-filled, self-destructive drag! I wouldn’t say it was love at first sight when I first saw her back in college. For reasons unknown I would just feel happy and blissful when she was around.
Piyush Itankar
10 minute read
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A Slave to Pleasure and Pain

Wednesday, Apr 14, 2021

I have spent a lot of time thinking over how to decide between what is right and what is wrong. I reflect on my learnings from the course “Justice - What’s the right thing to do” from Harvard university …

Piyush Itankar
5 minute read
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Lost!

Tuesday, Oct 23, 2018

This is from the time when nothing seemed to be going good in life. How leaving important things at the mercy of unimportant things can leave you astray …

Piyush Itankar
3 minute read
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The Logical Villain

Tuesday, Sep 19, 2017

I grew up looking at the elders and seniors in the house take decisions. I keenly observed the process by which they would land on a decisions.

Piyush Itankar
5 minute read
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The Trap of Time

Wednesday, May 11, 2016

My parents have become old and fragile. I spent some time thinking how life would be after them …

Piyush Itankar
4 minute read
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Chuck it, Let’s do it!

Sunday, Mar 22, 2015

What we see as the limits of the world might not be the actual limits. This note is penned down version of the chatter in my head.

Piyush Itankar
2 minute read
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Leap of Faith

Wednesday, Feb 25, 2015

Most people dream big but do nothing. Padmanabh dared to dream, fail multiple times and achieve what he wanted. In many ways his grit reminded me of mine. This is my reflection on the phone call I had with him …

Piyush Itankar
3 minute read
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Rachit Mazumdar

Monday, Feb 10, 2014

Rachit was my roommate from the college years. He had this crazy love for Lamborghini and wanted to visit - Lamborghini, Sant’agata, Italy. This post is a reflection on the visit …

Piyush Itankar
2 minute read

© 2024 Piyush Itankar

These notes are my personal views. They do not represent any of the employers/ventures I work with.

Piyush Itankar

He who has a why can bear almost any how!
- Friedrich Nietzsche

By profession, I am an Embedded Systems, Software Engineer. I am passionate about studying electricity and use that as a way to understand the world around me. How we can make inanimate matter do our bidding is something that has always fascinated me and leaves me in awe every time I think about it.

My other intellectual interests are in the fields of - Humanities, Psychology and Human behavior, Justice, and Education. It’s just amazing how far humanity has come and how much it has achieved. I like to ponder on how all of it happened, despite catastrophic events like the World Wars!

Lately, I have gone OCD on studying the interaction between Waves and Matter, and Mathematical Modeling of Biological Systems. It may not seem obvious but both these topics have given me a very different view of how Nature operates! Here is a snap of the books I am in love with -

My Blog is a collection of notes. These notes include experiences, comments on career development, experiments in Embedded systems development, and random other things that I feel like keeping a record of.

I use writing as a way to slow down my thinking. Usually, the intention is to grab something of worth, something that helps me improve as a human, learn more about how I and the world operate together, or (mostly) a way to correct my model of the world.

I hope you find these helpful.

Thanks for stopping by,
- Piyush Itankar