I'm starting a newsletter for nerds.

A short newsletter exploring industries and academic fields less talked about.

Yes, another newsletter. Weren’t there enough of these out there?

Well… I thought, nope. This newsletter is special and different. You’ll get to learn about…

Boooriiiing! Stop Keshav. Just Stop. Tell them the truth. The why?

Truly, this newsletter is for me.

Four years ago, I cracked the entrance exam for the Indian Institutes of Technology but couldn’t join IIT KGP due to financial issues. At that moment, I wanted to learn about a lot of things and earn money. And like everyone, I started a YouTube channel.

13th July 2018, I published my first video and in the next two years, I did publish some 20 videos on and off but I was achieving none, neither the learning nor the earning. Somewhere at the start of the pandemic, I started looking at content writing, and thankfully I started making progress on the earning side of things.

And now, I want to focus on learning. My desire for learning can be summed up by this tweet

skooks @skooookum

every day i wake up and im like i need to read the classics i need to learn AI i need to understand geopolitics i need to read on animal psychology i need to know trains i need to know i need to learn Mandarin i need to know cryptography i need to understand Hegel i need to

To tackle this dilemma of “everything at once”, I came up with the idea for this newsletter.

Now, what’s in it for you as a reader?

Looking for resources on learning, what frustrated me was that every major publication and every YouTube channel is talking about only the “cool things”. Tell me if I’m wrong but we all have seen hundreds of videos, read dozens of articles, and listened to hours of podcasts about space, quantum physics, evolution, metaverse, self-proving philosophies, etc.

They forget about things that really make the world. The unsexy parts of the machine. Food production, mining, fabrics, waste management, and much more. I wanted to address that. Maybe you feel the same, or your younger sibling or your nerd friend.

What’s going to be in the newsletter?

For the last week or so I was thinking of doing this again on YouTube but last night, a newsletter felt like a sustainable way of doing this. I’m figuring out the exact structure I’m gonna follow, but I wanted to check a few boxes for this newsletter.

• quick to read

• unsexy fields of science (or academics)

• focus on future relevancy

• no “thought leadership” content

and that’s what you can expect from the first newsletter this Friday. I’ll see you there then—if you subscribe.