People
Years ago I ran Humans of SocialGram — interviews with creators and innovators on non-default paths. The same instinct lives in DTD Portfolio today: people who did not walk the beaten road.
SocialGram archive → · DTD Portfolio →Not a pitch deck · the through-line
Everything I am putting out right now — portfolio pages, coaching paths, a school, blogs, products — is one practice of being true to myself. Whatever comes to mind, I ship it. And gradually, things connect.
It was not random. It is becoming a tree.
The cut
For almost two months I cut off influence from the samaj — barely meeting anyone, mostly inside a house. My wife and kid were at their nanihal the whole time. No noise, no performance, no borrowed opinions.
What grew in that silence surprised me. Not one project — an org-shaped thing. Roots getting stronger. Branches taking form. Leaves popping up. I did not imagine all of this on day one. But every day in the last month, some idea arrived that cross-linked with another vertical or strengthened an older instinct.
I am falling in love with it every day.
The pattern
On the first day I could not have drawn this map. Humans of SocialGram, Start Your Journey, Cursor AI School, the blog, the portfolio — they looked like different bets. Now they read as one tree. Each branch feeds the others.
The tree
Years ago I ran Humans of SocialGram — interviews with creators and innovators on non-default paths. The same instinct lives in DTD Portfolio today: people who did not walk the beaten road.
SocialGram archive → · DTD Portfolio →Self-discovery workshops and coaching I used to take in my earlier years — the questions, the niche advice, the slow work of designing a life. Start Your Journey is that door, opened again.
Start Your Journey →When I told people “do what you love, design your life,” they always asked how to make money. I did not have a clean answer — until building apps and sites became something I could teach. Cursor AI School is the income skill I grew in three years without a typical dev background. Companies still use what I shipped. That is value.
Cursor AI School →Random deep reading, questioning, going to first principles — that became the blog. Traffic is arriving now. The writing was never marketing; it was thinking out loud.
Blog →Products, demos, case studies — the craft trunk everything hangs on. Work portfolio is where the building lives in public.
Work →Your turn
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