Hi,

I’m Madhav Khandelwal, aka Maddy / Shunya.

It’s always hard to box oneself into fixed labels. So, instead you can just scroll down here to look at my interests, past quests and the things that currently make me excited to get out of my bed in the morning.

Tangents I currently find interesting

Reorganising society for 21st century, Psychedelic research, BCIs, Future of humanity and space, Post-AGI world as we transition through the chaos tunnel, Indian deeptech ecosystem and maximising my inputs for playfulness and fun (without ending up broke). I could def use some advice for the last one if you’ve got any.

Here’s a list of things that I want to/have written about.

My story so farWhy I believe life is a game and my current approach for understanding the rules of itMy experience being a part of India's first pop-up villageCompilation of very random thoughts that occured to meYou don't need permissionConcept that I found useful

Some past quests, listed in no particular order

- Founding member at ZuGrama (short stint, bad timing)
- Launched TFS while I was at ZuGrama
- Was lead designer on $100k+ web projects along with a team of a creative director, project manager and developers while in 2nd year of my college
-Traded NFTs during my drop year after 12th grade. Had a relatively good run but decided to drop it and focus on cultivating long term skills.
- Helped build a side project called Dintern, which was basically an internship for a day kinda platform to give highschool students a taste of different professions so they could choose what they want to do in college more wisely. (colleges are low-key redundant now)
- It got pivoted into an EF backed startup where I witnessed the journey of going from -1 to 0 with 2 great lowkey mentors/co-founders (I was an intern back then)
- Was the most fascinating journey for me as a 18 yr old kid who grew up hating the indian education system in a small town in India
- Probably built the first directory for pop-up villages and the first network state related event in India where I screened the first docfilm made on network states by Jean 
- And a lot more random things which include but are not limited to selling custom printed tshirts, running google ads for local tattoo studio, SMM for a local cafe, making WP websites between 8th to 12th grade.

If you feel like reaching out please do. What's the point of using the internet if we don’t use it to humanly connect with people we might not have otherwise met in a previous era due to geographical constraints. 

I still find it fascinating that somehow out of 8.3 billion people in this world, you somehow landed up on my website and are now reading this. Cheers!

Email - hi[at]shunya[dot]wtf