prachi agarwal

PM @Google. Mom to 👧! Passionate about tech, travel, wellness and spirituality.

[prachi agarwal @pagarwal5]

Every rising tide is an expression of Shakti's (energy) power, but it is held by the infinite stillness of Shiva (consciousness). In the rhythm of the beach, we see the pulse of the universe. 🐚

[prachi agarwal @pagarwal5]

“Hinduism" is a more recent colonial label for something much deeper. Sanatana Dharma, more aptly used to describe the philosophy of Hindus, isn't a religion—it’s a way of being: eternal, highly spiritual and not created by any human. It’s a pursuit of self-realization and a journey to truly know the Divine.

[prachi agarwal @pagarwal5]

Every choice we make, is a declaration of who we are.

[prachi agarwal @pagarwal5]

"If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun." ☀️- Dr.Kalam

[prachi agarwal @pagarwal5]

Divinity is to be experienced. One cannot be pushed to believe in it. Just as the senses turn light into "vision," the soul turns the infinite into a "presence”.

[prachi agarwal @pagarwal5]

Early mornings without a phone are one of the greatest hacks for mental health. No notifications, no noise—just total control. ☕️✨

[prachi agarwal @pagarwal5]

All the different religious paths lead to the same one god. Like a thousand different thirsty people searching for the same source of water..

[prachi agarwal @pagarwal5]

Gentle reminder to show up even if you don’t want to.

Choosing persistence today because my future self will thank me later. ✨

[prachi agarwal @pagarwal5]

Using apps for my kid made me realize: the biggest use case for AI agents isn't more SaaS—it’s bespoke software. I’m tired of paying $10/month for low-creativity games. I’m going to experiment my own version of charades this week.

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Very interested in what the coming era of highly bespoke software might look like.

Example from this morning - I've become a bit loosy goosy with my cardio recently so I decided to do a more srs, regimented experiment to try to lower my Resting Heart Rate from 50 -> 45, over experiment duration of 8 weeks. The primary way to do this is to aspire to a certain sum total minute goals in Zone 2 cardio and 1 HIIT/week.

1 hour later I vibe coded this super custom dashboard for this very specific experiment that shows me how I'm tracking. Claude had to reverse engineer the Woodway treadmill cloud API to pull raw data, process, filter, debug it and create a web UI frontend to track the experiment. It wasn't a fully smooth experience and I had to notice and ask to fix bugs e.g. it screwed up metric vs. imperial system units and it screwed up on the calendar matching up days to dates etc.

But I still feel like the overall direction is clear:
1) There will never be (and shouldn't be) a specific app on the app store for this kind of thing. I shouldn't have to look for, download and use some kind of a "Cardio experiment tracker", when this thing is ~300 lines of code that an LLM agent will give you in seconds. The idea of an "app store" of a long tail of discrete set of apps you choose from feels somehow wrong and outdated when LLM agents can improvise the app on the spot and just for you.
2) Second, the industry has to reconfigure into a set of services of sensors and actuators with agent native ergonomics. My Woodway treadmill is a sensor - it turns physical state into digital knowledge. It shouldn't maintain some human-readable frontend and my LLM agent shouldn't have to reverse engineer it, it should be an API/CLI easily usable by my agent. I'm a little bit disappointed (and my timelines are correspondingly slower) with how slowly this progression is happening in the industry overall. 99% of products/services still don't have an AI-native CLI yet. 99% of products/services maintain .html/.css docs like I won't immediately look for how to copy paste the whole thing to my agent to get something done. They give you a list of instructions on a webpage to open this or that url and click here or there to do a thing. In 2026. What am I a computer? You do it. Or have my agent do it.

So anyway today I am impressed that this random thing took 1 hour (it would have been ~10 hours 2 years ago). But what excites me more is thinking through how this really should have been 1 minute tops. What has to be in place so that it would be 1 minute? So that I could simply say "Hi can you help me track my cardio over the next 8 weeks", and after a very brief Q&A the app would be up. The AI would already have a lot personal context, it would gather the extra needed data, it would reference and search related skill libraries, and maintain all my little apps/automations.

TLDR the "app store" of a set of discrete apps that you choose from is an increasingly outdated concept all by itself. The future are services of AI-native sensors & actuators orchestrated via LLM glue into highly custom, ephemeral apps. It's just not here yet.

[prachi agarwal @pagarwal5]

Once drops of rain fall on the ocean, who is to say what’s the drop vs the ocean?

[prachi agarwal @pagarwal5]

The beauty of immense struggle is that you are forced to slow down and focus on what’s real.

[prachi agarwal @pagarwal5]

When the inward journey begins, the outward one loses its grip.
You become quieter. More deliberate. More aware.
If you feel lost, don’t mistake it for a crisis. You aren’t losing your way; the path itself is evolving. 🕉️

[prachi agarwal @pagarwal5]

Self-discipline is less important growing up because the system (parents, school) enforces it for us. Once we become adults, that structure vanishes. Self-discipline is a huge differentiator for success but it needs to feel natural. Forced discipline can lead to burnout.

[prachi agarwal @pagarwal5]

Diplomacy manages egos at work, resolves conflicts at home, and keeps the peace in social circles. Master it everywhere.

[prachi agarwal @pagarwal5]

The only real test of intelligence is if you get what you want out of life.

– Naval Ravikant

[prachi agarwal @pagarwal5]

Seldom does a film shift your perspective like 'Homebound' did. It woke me up to my own privilege and sparked a genuine desire to serve others. Highly recommend. #HOMEBOUND

[prachi agarwal @pagarwal5]

Be the best version of yourself. Let people see that god’s creative powers work through you.

[prachi agarwal @pagarwal5]

"Don't ask questions. Respect hierarchy. Girls can't do that."

Growing up in a conservative landscape, the script was clear. Breaking out of that mold took years of unlearning.

I still fall into old traps of compliance, but I remind myself daily: Empowerment is a choice.