I'm twenty-six, and I make things. Some of it is work, some of it is play, and the line between the two has mostly dissolved, which I've decided to treat as a feature. I came up loving good work long before I could make any, and I spent a while mistaking that gap for a verdict. I've since learned it was a beginning.
Atherbloom is where I keep the ideas that survive that gap. It isn't a portfolio in the usual sense. There's no case study, no metrics, no logos. It's closer to a window: a way of showing how I think when no one's grading it. If that tells you more about whether we'd work well together than a list of tools would, then it's doing its job.
How I try to work
Slowly, and on purpose. I'd rather understand one thing deeply than ship ten things I can't explain. I trust taste while skill catches up, I edit hard, and I take the fallow seasons as seriously as the productive ones. Most of what I'm proud of took longer than it should have. That's usually why it's good.
What I care about
Attention, mostly. The discipline of giving something your whole regard, whether it's a person, a problem, or a single sentence. The rest of what I believe is scattered through the valley, the ideas, and the journal. This whole place is really just that one conviction, wearing different clothes.
"I'd rather be known for how I think than for what I've shipped. The shipping follows." Nikunj