Mohak Shrivastava

About Me

"The tragedy of the intelligent man who never creates anything is that he dies an expert on other people's lives."

This site is my attempt at answering the question of what I create.

Billions of people have lived and died throughout history, most of them leaving no trace. I'm lucky enough to exist at a moment where I can put a piece of myself on the internet and it might stay there after I'm gone. Some stranger might stumble across it years from now and find an entire person's life sitting there, waiting. I find that remarkable.

We are all a culmination of experiences we didn't fully choose the era we're born into, the things that shaped us, the obsessions we couldn't explain. Making something is the only way to say: I was here, and this is what it was like to be me.

I'm an information security student who spends the rest of his time watching anime, reading manga, learning Japanese, or playing games with a friend. Outside of that I follow F1 and esports, fall down rabbit holes of random video essays, and occasionally remember that table tennis exists though I haven't played since high school. I'm an avid Magic player — my favourite commander is Kinnan. I like going to the gym, though I tend to collect injuries more reliably than progress. I'm minimalist about most things as you could tell by my site design. This site is how I express myself outside the algorithm.