As an engineer...
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‍✅ I like to build things that can last for years, decades, and hopefully centuries to come.

✅ I like modular design, so upgrades can be made without affecting smooth operation.
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✅ I love minimal, clean interfaces, whether in software or hardware. Products can be complex under the hood, but that complexity should never burden the user.

❌ I despise the modern trend of planned obsolescence, turning engineering into fashion.
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As a marketer...

‍✅ I’ve found that three things make all the difference: figuring out what the market really wants, finding the right words to explain why the product matters based on those insights, and repeating that message in many different creative ways.

❌ I despise marketing that makes promises it can't deliver.
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As an entrepreneur...

✅ I love finding businesses where I can create value and a win-win for everyone: me, vendors, and clients. Changes in market dynamics, preferences, or technology often create these opportunity gaps.


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Hey,
I am Ankur Tiwari.

I help SaaS businesses with organic growth at Thoughtlytics.
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👨💻 I enjoy crafting research-based growth marketing strategies, designing content strategies, writing well-researched content and coding in Python.

🎤 I am self-trained and experienced in speaking to the audience of hundreds of people.

🧑🏽💼 Previously, I've worked as a project manager in a large non-banking financial company, as an embedded systems engineer in a dev lab, and as the founder of BalconyOfJoy.

🎓 I am an Electronics Engineer and MBA (Finance).

🧠 I'm an INTJ.

🧘🏽 My wellness ritual include Kettlebells, Calisthenics, Mugdars, Vipassana, Hatha Yoga and basic boxing training.

♞ Sometimes, I play Chess on: Lichess & Chess.com.

🤝🏼 Connect with me on:
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🙏 Thank you for checking out my tiny No-Code project.
📚 Bookshelf
The ones that linger long after the final page...
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1. Shantaram
2. Fountainhead
3. Autobiography of a Yogi
4. The Richest Man in Babylon
5. Alchemist
6. Eleven Minutes
7.  


🎥 Cinema
The stories I could revisit forever...
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1. The Godfather
2. Avatar I
3. Along with the Gods: The Two Worlds
4. Nightcrawler
5. Lakshya
6. Swades
7. Adopt a Highway
8. Stealing Beauty
9. Last Chance Harvey
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In future

1. Learn: Judo, Wrestling, Knife Fight, Stick Fighting

Update: I learned boxing for a few months, just enough to enjoy bag work and survive sparring. The biggest lesson? Real strength is knowing when not to fight. Sometimes stepping back is its own kind of victory.

2. Live with animals: dogs, cats, cows, buffaloes, horses, mules, parrots, eagles, camels.
Chess Strategies

1. Open a new war front if you are feeling overwhelmed from an agressive opponent. Usually, aggressive opponents are bad with defense.
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2. Trade equal value pieces when you are surrounded. This reduces the attacking power of the aggressor.

3. If you have captured opponent's queen early in the game, trade equal value pieces to totally subdue their attacking power. Keeping your queen alive.

4. If a time comes where two of you are equal and you do not have a valuable move to play, then make a move to confuse the opponent and make them kill their time. (when you are playing time limited games)

5. Look out for the opportunities to create a misdirection.
A Pattern I’m Working On

I’ve noticed that I naturally think in systems.
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Before I make a move, I tend to zoom out, map the structure, and understand how the pieces connect.
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It helps me design strategies with depth, but it also means I sometimes try to solve the entire system before taking the next simple step.

I’m learning to balance both modes:
staying strategic, but acting faster and letting real feedback refine the system.

It shows up in my work: I move fast with experiments, but once I see a signal, I naturally zoom out and build the full strategy around it.

‍It shows up in my personal life: I like understanding how things fit together before I commit to a long-term direction.

Notes

Lessons learned along the way


17.Aug.2026

A time comes in every man's life
when you are torn between responsibilities
and cannot decide the way ahead.

Your journey has reached a point
where life has competing claims on you.
You cannot treat one as absolute,
overriding all the others.

That is the time to find your moral framework,
and fall back on it.

There are virtues, and there are hierarchies of duty,
a husband owes love and loyalty to his wife,
a son owes honor and support to his parents,
a brother owes care to his siblings,
a man owes something to his clients,
to the society, to his country, to this earth,
and to the universe.

Navigate that tension as best you can,
without giving up, without frustration,
without picking one and letting it consume every other duty.

If defeat comes in one area, face it with your best,
without losing yourself to it.
Take rest, and then get up the next day to navigate what remains.

Never let anything come between you and your conscience,
not even debt, not even gratitude.
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Remember, nothing excuses you from weighing what is right.
You don't get to outsource your conscience to a debt.

Let nothing become totalizing.
Instead, let the many competing forces exist, side by side.

- A
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