What's Aman doing
My phone battery is at 69% right now. I just listened to Lucille by Dan Bern. I'm not working at anything on my laptop right now.
Things below were updated on
January 9, 2025
In no particular order, here are some things happening in my life right now:
I’ve been studying statistics in my free time. My evenings and weekends go mostly in that. Glasses are now absolutely necessary for me. I often forget them. If I see you on the street and don’t nod or smile in acknowledgement, know that it isn’t out of rudeness but because you’re a blob to me. I’ve been obsessed with Sherlock Holmes and Jeremy Brett this year. I’ve re-read the Doyle stories for the 3rd time now. I don’t know what fascinates me about them? This year, I decided to try and get back in touch with old friends from past lives. It’s a process but one I want to do well. I got lucky and found L and A from Montreal (which I left in 2012) and was pleasantly surprised to know that they still remembered me. If we’ve lost touch, I’d love to reconnect with you as well. Please send me an email.
What do I do these days?
Since 2023, I have been working as a full-time web and data visualization developer at Revisual Labs. I make charts, websites and other interactive web thingies on a daily basis.
Why?
It's fun, I like it. It marries my interests of making things go brrr and design. I've also been freelancing in similar areas since 2021.
Where you at?
I live in Bangalore. Got my own apartment this year! If you're in town, say hi :)
Highlights
2024
- Made Who is My Neta, a project that went mildly viral on Twitter and other places. For the first time, people were making reels about how and why they should use a website I made.
- Did a lot of film photography, and by a lot I mean I got through around 4 rolls. A lot of this happened when Rhea came to visit me in Bangalore (twice!) and I went to her city to surprise her for her birthday. Film has a lovely quality that I never knew I was missing. I love all those pictures.
- Worked a lot with Vivek at our standard table in IKEA. Ideated on many projects, finished some of them, left others for later. I also walked more than I ever have in Bangalore thanks to him. Your view of the city changes when you take time to roam within it and not just zip from the standard A to B places.
- Finished one year of work at Revisual Labs and also finally met my teammates face to face in Bangalore. I've known Gurman since 2021, and I only met her IRL in 2024, haha. Our team outing was incredibly fun and I attended my first design conference, DesignUp. Some work resonated with me, but a lot of it was just AI. Boo.
- Started interning with Manas at Defog, where I helped build a charting tool for their product. First time learning React and working on something real people use, and may depend on. It's a slow learning curve, since I mostly work with static websites.
- Funnily enough, I conducted a viva for data journalism graduates at St. Joseph's in Bangalore. It was a great experience and I think I've started to look at my own work more critically because of it.
- Created Diagram Chasing, a blog where I told myself I will try to do something that I haven't done before (with data or dev) every month.
- Made BLR Water Log, which made me get my picture in Deccan Herald.
- Won The Pudding Cup. A dream come true. The project was made in a maddening 7 days before the deadline, from start-to-finish.
- Travelled with my family to Hampi, which was beautiful. I never knew my brother would love cave paintings so much, and seeing his enthusiasm made me happy as well. My father finds out about the most offbeat places and makes these trips absolutely amazing. Never else would I have visited a stone necropolis from 3,000 years ago.
2023
- Graduated with Bachelor's of Design from Srishti. Yelahanka had been my home for four amazing years so it was hard to say goodbye. On the other hand, I had had enough of college. But home is home.
- Gurman hired me at Revisual Labs, an information design studio she had just started. It has been an exciting few months.
- Searched for apartments, got an apartment. On Twitter of all places. I'll be sharing it with a friend I've known for almost 18 years now.
- Stayed at my OG home with family for almost 6 months, a much needed break after college. Watched Seinfeld a lot. Seriously. We can quote specific breaths of air from each episode.
- Watched Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Ghum. Yeah, that was something. Needs its own bullet-point. Gawd.
- Hosted a farewell, wrote a thesis.
2022
- Interned with Reuters Graphics, which was a huge moment for me. I've been stalking data viz gods on the internet for so long and to be among them? Crazy.
- Got my first byline two days after I joined the team for a little chart I made. Watching a breaking news story develop was incredibly exciting. Over the next four months, I would work on various stories in different capacities; from analyzing Brazil election data to visualizing the floods in Pakistan.
- My friends and I hosted two major events in college (and may I add, despite college). It was a huge success. The same group would host the farewell next year.
- Got bored, started Times of Srishti and accidentally garnered a cult following (faculty included). It was anonymous while I ran it and so it was fun to see people react genuinely to something I had written.
- Went to Ooty with two of my best-friends R and S.