About Me

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I'm Sushant. I work in strategy and analytics at Urban Company, and outside of that I build small systems, mentor students, and watch a lot of films.

I didn't plan this combination. I just kept following what felt interesting. Somewhere in college I got pulled into 180 Degrees Consulting, working with startups and social enterprises on real problems with real deadlines, and that's probably where "figure out the system behind the mess" became a habit instead of just a skill. It stuck around long enough to become the thing I do for a living now.

No-code tools started the same way, as tinkering. I'd build a dashboard or automate something small just to see if I could, and over time it turned into an actual way of thinking about problems: find the repeatable part, simplify it, let the system carry the weight so people don't have to.

Mentoring happened because someone once helped me when I didn't have much figured out. So I started doing the same, IIT-JEE aspirants first, then 150-odd college students through LinkedIn Launchpad, then workshops on AI and automation. Somewhere along the way it stopped feeling like giving back and started feeling like the part I look forward to most. Teaching things is how I find out what I actually understand.

Cinema and books happened the same way, quietly, without a plan. I watch films in their original language because dubbing kills the performance, and subtitles are a small price for that. My "watch list" is really a timeline of the scenes and lines that changed something in me.

Books slowed me down when I needed slowing down, business books to sharpen, fiction to soften, philosophy to stretch, biographies to anchor. Neither started as a "practice." They just stayed, the way good habits do when you're not looking.

If there's a pattern here, it's this: I like taking something messy, a system, a process, a feeling, and finding the shape underneath it. Sometimes that looks like a dashboard. Sometimes it looks like a blog post about a film that wrecked me for a week. Either way, I'm just trying to make things a little clearer, for myself first, and hopefully for whoever's reading this.