Hi, I'm Sameer

I use this site to think out loud -- mostly about building products, experiments I'm running, and ideas from books that won't leave me alone.

If you're here for essays, start with the writing. If you want book takeaways, check out my notes.

Sameer Bajaj

Here are a few more things about me:

  • Born in Mumbai, India and moved to California in 2015.
  • One thing I keep updating on this website is my book notes. While I mostly post about my non-fiction reading here, I love reading fiction (Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn and the Stormlight Archive are my favorites).
  • I’m always interested in product strategy. If you’re looking for a great book on the subject – start with Good Strategy/Bad Strategy and Understanding Michael Porter. I also recommend reading the full Steve Jobs interview (although I highly recommend listening to the full interview on Amazon too).
  • Some weekends I spend tinkering on ideas like AI Summaries. Right now, I’m prototyping a mental-model decision framework; subscribe below if you want to hear when it is ready.
  • In my spare time, I also explore mindfulness practices and have written about experiments with TM and longer meditation sessions.
  • Inspired by Derek Sivers, I keep a now page updated every so often in case you’re curious what I’m up to right now.
  • During the week I’m at Affirm focused on how we expand into new international markets after helping build and launch the ads platform. Before that I was at Twitter working on the ads product and wrote a couple of pieces here on elevating conversations and improving platform health.
  • Lifelong Chelsea fan; here’s the old Chelsea tracker I started back in 2021 when we were on a tear.
  • I love hearing from folks that visit this website - please reach out over email or drop your address in the newsletter below if you have any thoughts / feedback.

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