Aneesh Simha — Field notes on systems, taste, and the material future.
field notes · new york
I'm Aneesh — an engineer in New York studying how the world gets made. Materials, software, supply chains, fabric, capital: the same hidden system wearing different jackets. This is the field notebook — part strategy memo, part design archive, written mostly at night.▍
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Systems, aesthetics, frontier technology, self-invention. I write from inside the transformation, not after it — code that leads to capital, materials that lead to fashion, taste as a kind of philosophy.
→ the full manifestocurrently: five tabs on nuclear startups, one on a japanese fabric mill
writing
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Becoming an AI engineer without LARPing
A field note on building taste, systems, and proof-of-work — and why most portfolios prove neither.
interface
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The personal RAG app as resume artifact
Why a retrieval app that actually works says more than a CV ever could.
interface
03
Materials databases and the future of taste
What spectral libraries and fabric archives reveal about how taste gets manufactured.
material
04
Notes on deep tech VC
Reading the market for atoms, not just bits — and where the two finally meet.
capital
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New York as an operating system
Scheduling, latency, and throughput in a city that never quite blocks.
field note
projects
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Personal RAG
A retrieval app that answers questions about my own writing — and tries to prove engineering taste in a single demo.
interface
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FALSE COLOR
The personal magazine you're reading — a hand-built editorial system for writing in public without rehearsing.
material
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Spectral Tooling
A small kit of CLI utilities for inspecting, comparing, and visualizing material data — built for taste, not throughput.
capital