Hey, I'm Ritom!

I create systems, tools and methods to help improve experiences 🌱

Prefer in-depth & precise insights?
Like functional tools & designs?
Love to enable people interactions?

I do too!

The best way to reach out to me is Twitter ↗ or LinkedIn ↗ DM. I might take some time to respond though!

Current Work ✏️

I usually work on projects related to any or all of my 3 interests above : building tech products, enabling people interaction, or satisying my own curiosity on a variety of topics.

• I'm stealth-building an edu-travel product on the weekends.

• I build web features on USC Annenberg Media's news site.

• At USC, I study Multimedia Systems and Security Systems this semester (Fall '23).

4 other epic projects ↗

Past Work 🚀

Academia 🎓

Reading 📚

I've been reading books ever since the wee age of 8. Only recently did I switch from fiction to business and history titles, something I never thought I'd do. The primary motivator was the dearth of insightful and comprehensive content available online on these topics.

I'm currently reading the following set of books.

• The Gospel According to Disney: Faith, Trust, and Pixie Dust ↗

• Confessions of an Advertising Man ↗

• Magician of the Movies: The Life of Walt Disney ↗

• Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies ↗

• An Illustrated History of Los Angeles County, California ↗

Writing ✍️

I've written a few articles on my not-so-periodic newsletter. I try to write about topics which really helped me or really capture my intrigue. Like these:

• Why recruiters don't find your LinkedIn profile ↗

• Why Threads by Meta is hot ↗

• Why the Apple Vision Pro is insane ↗

• Gmail’s spam filters hurt indie email ↗

I also wrote a few short stories in the past, which I have republished here.

Questions 🧢

Here are a few questions I currently think of, in a rough sense and no particular order:

• Can mega corporations co-exist with smaller competing enterprises?

• Is AI (and by extension systems enabled by AI) fundamentally flawed? Why are some groups of people highly invested in it, and others completely detest it?

• How do you ensure and validate trust in a service or product, even at scale?

Press 🗞️

Featured : YES! Magazine, Alternet.org, ZNetwork, Spirit of Change Magazine

Platforms ▲

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LinkedIn

GitHub

Instagram

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