Field Notes
Things worth writing down.
Field Notes is the public writing surface of Himalayan Silicon Valley. Long pieces from the chairperson and the operating team. Operational reflections from inside the work. An annual letter to partners every year. Published when there is something to say, not on a schedule.
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Recent and upcoming pieces.
Why we built where we built.
A first-person argument for putting an AI infrastructure company in Lumbini rather than Bangalore, Singapore or San Francisco. The geography is doing more work than the brochure suggests, and the philosophical inheritance is doing more still. Both are quantifiable if you look at them honestly.
Read the piece →Notes on the X001-0001 pilot.
The first delivery off the annotation pipeline: twenty AI-companion interviews across four user segments. What the schema got right, what it did not, where the operators caught things the design missed, and what the second batch will look like. A working post-mortem rather than a victory lap.
Read the piece →Annual letter to partners — 2026.
The first annual letter. Where the company stands at the end of its first operating year, what worked, what did not, and the commitments we are making to the people who came in early. Written in the long-form institutional register; meant to be read once a year and remembered.
Read the letter →When a piece is published, the link goes live. Until then, the placeholder is honest about what is and is not here.
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