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About me ↗The latest essay · 05 Sep 2026Memory Before
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A song takes me back to Class 12. Contra takes me back to my colony friends. How does that happen?
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A bit about me.
I'm Aryan Yadav, co-founder and CTO of NeoSapien. I write about AI, the mind, books and the experience of building things.