Below I present a chronological summary, with related evidences of my whole life, starting from 1, and of other autobiographies I have written.
The original Short Autobiography, on about page, was getting too long, hence it has been moved to it's own article. Each age has it's own section, which contains multiple paragraphs. Unlike earlier where each age had only one paragraph.
There isn't anything much I can talk about.other than that I started education at just 1.5 by going to a childcare until admissions opened.
At the age of 2, I ran away from a school before taking admission into pre-nursery at another school. I was the fastest writer, most coherent speaker there, my teache there told me at age 14. Learned doing financial transactions and did from a nearby shopkeeper after school was over. Two negative things happened. One really negative which I would not share. Other than that I managed to survive a feral cat bite on face without any scar that happened when I was in crib. Few more negative things like 2008 financial crisis, and 26/11 terror attack made this year more negative.
At the age of 3, I had to do pre-nursery again in another school, which ate my "early bird advantage" and dragged me down to those who started at "normal age". Learned writing in English, Hindi, Punjabi, sorted in order of proficiency that time.
Collected stones a bit but later stopped in favor of plants. Survived brain trauma caused by accidental fall to head, and I had no role in it.
Discovered the basic concept of elasticity, magnetism through "playing" with magnets, bouncing balls, which I had bought myself, with my own money, rubber bands etc.
Started teaching myself English. I learned it through many sources including old newspapers(which I got for free from shopkeepers), books, writing, reading a dictionary, watching non-fiction television channels including History TV 18, Discovery, Animal Planet, Nat Geo etc.
Learned about technology including installing third party apps, Bluetooth, web browsing etc, through a Symbian device. Utilized various methods including overnight, bulk downloads and keeping device in open area. I had earlier estimated this event age to be bit earlier, due to wrong deduction regarding model of device, so I apologize for any confusion caused.
Started collecting coins, notes and got my first gold medal in overall academics, by scoring highest, which was also first possible gold medal as before that, there were no awards. Gave my first public speech, for which school had arranged a special helper to hold the mic, and even took a picture of me, gave it to me. Luckily, I was able to find that physical photo, which has a date, my name on it in my own handwriting, and digitalize it. Developed an eye, mouth(boastful talks) for stationery as well, but didn't collect much seriously. A girl from our class found it "cool", and gifted me a cheap stationery kit. I shared some snacks with her as a return of favor, and later we sat together for a while until I observed that sitting with opposite gender wasn't the "norm".
Almost amputated my finger while trying to open an electronic with a knife. I still have wound of this. Did my first shallow water swim.
At the age of 6, I got another gold medal, was forced to play a role into school annual function and continued coin collection. Favorite teacher of Y, who generally disliked me initially for no reason, started praising my oral, writing skills. She also praised my ability to "always being happy", compared it to Y.
I also started collecting APKs, after learning the process of backing, editing up them, which was very helpful to me due to low storage, and internet speeds. Compiled a list of J2ME resources in a notebook, which would in future at age of 16-17 motivate me to work on Awesome J2ME.
Discovered astrology, horoscope in a newspaper. Initially thought it a "Book for predicting future", due to credibility of newspapers, but rejected it due to lack of accuracy, impossibility of predicting future for such large amount of people with limited number of signs, and vague statements. Another reason was fearmongering by astrologers who said I will die prematurely if I did not wear gemstones. I did not yet I am alive and thriving.
Served as discipline manager for whole academic session.
I learned about firecraft including firepit, boiling, roasting plant material, pottery, blacksmithing(didn't practice due to improper equipment), realizing that dry leaves aren't really dry. Started long distance cycling(total 10Km + a day) to second home, despite being underweight(BMI < 13)
The Symbian device stopped working, and it was downgraded by an internet-less keypad phone, and one another really negative thing which I won't mention.
Started climbing trees and practicing jumping. It should be noted that I did not jump out of sake of it, but for a practical necessity, such as travel, retrieving ball, playing hide and seek etc. I employed proper techniques such as hanging to reduce distance. I also did not try rolling or back flip, despite an unsolicited advice of a self proclaimed expert, because I knew a roll technique he was teaching could break the neck, which is way worse than breaking limbs; my jumps weren't really that high which warranted a roll; possibility of pebbles on ground.
Convinced my parents to stop sending me to tuitions which led to increase in grades, freedom, decrease in costs. I haven't taken any tuition since then. Learned about ball in a hanging sock method and started exercising, batting training through it. Read magazines, mannuals, which were provided to my father from his job but I had found them myself, which greatly improved my knowledge of English, business.
A strict teacher, who didn't considered anyone as "favorite student", apperciated my habbit of keeping an ironed handkercheif with me, and me ironing it for sterlization purposes. My ability to do fill in blanks at "speed of cycle", without looking at blackboard. When I confessed to her that I was just noting down what I heard, she then apperciated me even more.
Volunteered at a local cult, in which one of my parent used to go. I never became a memeber. Neither formally nor spiritually, though I was considered as a "pure soul" by leader. Helped the local leader by creating posters, cooking, helping her with technology and nature television shows. Later two of which she was "secretly" fond of, but publicly shunned.
At the age of 9, I started focusing more on stationery, software side of technology, learned about modding Android applications to remove ads, in-app purchases. Wrote a mathematical table reference notebook. Won a mental maths quiz and an English poem recitation competition in school.
Due to group like sitting arrangements temporarily forced by teacher to the whole class, my rising stationery collection, some rumors started spreading about me. Another factor was that I had finally convinced my parents to stop forcing me to drink tea, in favor of plain cold milk. I had preached about benefits of drinking, not bathing, from it. I did not attribute my skin color to it, as I had same, obviously, even before it too. I and one of my male friend, who played a major role in milk bath rumor and was year later isolated from group, were made to sit with Z, future female trading partner and Y, who had a very similar behavior to me, and also remained favorite student of one teacher(age 6). Y helped by testifying, in boastful tone, post-trade, that the chocolate I was traded to get sharpeners is indeed imported, which) it was. I jokingly accepted the milk bathing rumor, and Y, also pale skinned, also testified, by saying that she also does and also sits in moonlight. I added that I stay in sunlight, they all have seen it. Some students, particularly female one, started actually bathing with milk, hoping for skin whitening benefits too, and then complaining it didn't work. Y also suggested me a self tested remedy for two conditions we both suffered from, but I didn't argue that it's ineffective.
Started volunteering by counting, curating donations at a temple, where my father held voluntary managerial position.
By the age of 10, I had shaped my interest in finance, technology, felids/nature, stationery collection. I had negative experience with all of them but that didn't stop me. Rather they had an opposite effect.
I started taking my stationery collection seriously. I also introduced this hobby, trading, written communication using obscure words, tabletop games, hidden pockets and bills to my classmates. I had collected 127 sharpeners, over 100 pens through both trading, purchasing and deterring thieves on the basis of A.
A teacher(A) considered me her "favorite student", gave me “Smart and Cool :smile:” on official report card. "Forced" me to eat my lunch in front, along of her, but despite her offers, I never consumed even a bit of her food, or used her analgesic spray, which she said was better than school's ointment, or went to first aid room for a minor injury. Also gave keys to her personal locker in staffroom, but I never used it for personal storage, only for chores. I was the only student who sat with opposite gender. A forced me to sit with one girl(X) for a week, who was not very intelligent and came from a lower socioeconomic class in efforts to teach her, though I didn't trade with her. Until I told her that it is "impacting my studies". My suspicion was validated a year later when B convicted her for stealing her expensive pen.
I also played the front role, of freedom fighter, in school annual function, again forcefully admitted, but had privilege of being only student excluded from makeup(skin whitening powder, lipstick), because I am already pale. A was only one forcing makeup to our class, no other teacher forced to their class. Of wearing my own jacket, even it meant creating discrepancies, because according to A and other teachers, it looked good.
Also scored 96/100 in environmental science, A1 in oral exams of all 3 languages, of mathematics, despite being forced to take Sanskrit, instead of Punjabi, till age 13, due to lack of choice by school. Started teaching myself basic theoretical electricity. I wrote my own note titled “How to Make Electric Formulas”.
Tested multiple paranormal rituals, as discussed by classmates. Wasn't surprised when they didn't work, but they still kept being afraid of it. Walked into a cremation ground, despite not informing home, it being far and unknown, taboo area with Group A, and was surprised by seeing children playing there.
At the age of 11, I gave up on stationery collection and also personally donated it to poor students, including poor non-school friends(Group A), who passed an oral test. Started writing small bat scripts using Exagear, Wine layer for Android. Replaced old, internet-less keypad phone, from age 7, with 3G, J2ME device, and continued self-learning.
Started playing Punjabi Kabbadi, cold bathes(all seasons), watching WWE and introduced these to classmates. United my school friend circle, made my friends stop using profanity, crying(once again), which was my own choice, not my job as a discipline manager.
Debunked the existence of paranormal beings, a popular topic of discussion among classmates, by writing a note employing philosophical, personal experiences and scientific arguments, including limitations of a mobile application, which is a counter to Z's beliefs.
Was forced to do another role, of a camel herder and coconut seller, but my two partners, who both happened to be my friends, considered the role of camel "inferior", falsely accused me of favoritism, hence they did not come on that day, started crying on next day. So I had to herd a random, costumesless students which prevented us from winning. While role giving teacher(B) did consider me favorite student a bit, forced me to eat lunch in front of her in staffroom. But it was false, because role was based on merit of me being underweight(hence easier to ride another student's back), being good with studies, ability to afford costumes, gender(herder role was exclusively for males with females having exclusive role of dancers), and others, which was same for another herder. Few months after the roleplay, B convicted X for stealing her expensive pen. She took advantage of very first day she was provided keys, as she knew it was one time. After which, I was given keys to her locker, whenever required, though she mostly managed herself as staffroom was nearby.
I Served as discipline manager, first bencher, time tracker for
whole session of class. Because teacher(C), didn't have a watch and
considered me her favorite student. Scored full on an test checked by her, and also participated in a quiz of her subject, which our team came second, despite me not focusing much on it. Also helped her in a profitable
business deal with my father. And similarly helped classmate, BD, in deal. She never forced me to eat lunch or
anything, unlike others, but she used to loudly, in front of whole
class, talk to me about a fast food which she believed that I
liked, and a few times about her experience trying a higher calorie
version it, which further fueled rumors about food and she herself
became a victim of it. Such as some attributed her alleged weight
gain to consuming it, but I didn't even notice and told them to Focus on blackboard, not on her stomach.
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At the age of 12, I began teaching myself basics of Linux, Programming and cybersecurity, and started using it for my day to day computing needs and for automating repetitive tasks. Started from Java, but switched to Python a month later. I used Termux because I didn't have a computer.
Received silver medal from Science Olympiad Foundation. Got a candid photo of me, during writing in a notebook, taken by science teacher(D) and featured in front page of school magazine. Despite failing to attend district level science quiz, and leading to loss of our team, disappointing her. Got my seat fixed with my M as a "punishment",
Created a digital wallet and started earned ₹700 through referrals, micro tasks, quizzes and some real money mini gaming.
I was the only one in class who resisted forced Tdap vacconation by school. When Z heard my stance, she got emotional, requested to teacher, but unfortunately, she was forcefully vaccinated after teacher confirmed it from her mother. Avoided getting bitten by a rabid dog by kicking it and washing off saliva from trousers.
Laid foundation for outside school meetups by inviting M, and others to my birthday party in a resturant. Later on his birthday, M got salty with me for not accepting food, leaving early from his birthday party, which was at his home. Survived 3 ambushes. They were a physical aggressions by whole group against a single group member in an isolated place. I convinced them to stop it, after almost everyone was targetted atleast once, one new classmate left their circle but still stayed friendly with me, by saying that we should not fight among ourselves, and by not participating in ambush.
Even during a school trip to amusement park, S, the unfavorable Sanskrit teacher, continued his behavior. He sat with me and my friend(T), who also had cash in his socks but less than me, in the bus and checked my bag, confiscated my wallet with some cash. But I was able to outsmarten him by following ways: hid cash in socks; gave it to a female classmate(because I knew females won't be checked); and hid it into lunch. There I saw that students from different school than us were buying stuff, carrying backpacks. I was the only student of our class who had bought from the canteen, took camel ride, both which require money. For rollercoaster ride, I and T managed to bargain to let us both in with a slight higher price than single ticket, but still less than of two, because we both were underweight. While on rollercoaster, C saw me and waved hi, but I "forgot" to wave back to her. S also saw but maybe he didn't realize the ride was paid so didn't do anything. The rides weren't enjoyable, but freedom was, as it was our last school trip.
At the age of 13, I started making mods for GTA: SA mobile version. While I did not like video games, music back then either, but I liked tinerking. It had huge set of resources and it was possible to create mods without a computer.
I created my own group for computer, cybersecurity related discussions, that gained over 100 members, from all over the world.
Once again united friend circle, expanded it, and acted as a "intermediary" with other groups within class. Avoided falling(both physically and mentally), of multiple collids with two female classmates, one(W) who was favorite student of S, and also heavier than me. W and her friend would instruct each other to gently push each other towards me, and then later would blame the pusher, or call it an "accident". It had flirtatious undertones. Later my male friends requested me to push them towards female classmates. I only did once, gently pushed M towards W, not to other female classmates as they were not part of this. I later refused their requests, citing concerns about S, legal issues, and W would interpret it as something positive from my side. W later requested me to write homework in her diary. I denied by saying that I myself even don't write it in my own diary, and I also didn't want to validate her entitlement. W tried to blackmail me by saying that she would reveal a "secret" of mine that M had leaked to her, about a year ago. I replied that it's public knowledge anyways and what M knew was only partially true. Neither was it something to be embarrassed about. Though later another male friend actually did write it.
Started learning about East Asian culture, specifically Japanese, Chinese. Mostly traditions, religions, World War 2(which I already knew but from USA perspective), but not anime/manga, language, ghosts, which my classmates started again after this. Wrote a small reference book on it, which was often shared among my them, and surprisingly treated respectfully. Was surprised to see some similarities between them and my own personal values: discouraging profanity; rejecting kindness initially; similarities between meditation methods. Though despite all that, the motivations behind my actions were largely different, and more rational.
Improved my knowledge of Bash, as a language, regular expressions and other text processing utilities. Started learning about finance, stocks, cryptocurrency.
Scored 89/100 in science(bio, chem, phy), despite being forced
Sanskrit again with an unfavorable male teacher(S), who broke the
"streak of favoritism", by unfairly targeted me, physically beat
me. The score is also less than what D, had expected from a
favorite student. So she wrote on my report card,
[my name] is an active boy. He should use his capabilities to
perform better
. Became favorite student of another teacher(E).
While she didn't teach our class, but whenever she came, she would
make me sit solo, front of her, and encourage me to reduce my
screen time, finish my lunch, even if it's not recess. She also
liked my efficient way of completing exam, self learning(early
forms of SDL), and preached this to other students using my
example, even encouraging them to write during reading time, which
is not allowed but I still used to do.
At the age of 14, I bought my own phone, for online classes, after plenty of research, and debloated, customized it on first day. I started a YouTube channel. I closed it after I got strike on a video where I taught how to make and execute prank bat "viruses" on Android using Exagear and another strike for using copyrighted SFX in my botany video. Started doing in-game micro transactions with an opening balance of 1,500, for classmates though paused after bad debt with BD and created a FD. Resisted mugging from two 16 year old boys near the place I got cash deposited by blocking my way and an unsucessfull arm bar. After 10 minutes, I pushed SM, who is shorter than me and was also present when K had slapped me, down and ran away, leading to tear of my backpack's strap, anSSM stumbling again. He did not get any money and never dared to confront me again.
Became favorite student of another teacher(F), despite not
attending school and attending online classes only during time of
attendance, then leaving. She understood my self learning style,
goals, and didn't force me to attend online classes. She even
defended me during exam, at age 17, when a jealous student from (C-2A) said
something bad about me to her, and she replied, in front of whole
class, He is very intelligent(2x). He will score high if he is
does commitment.
, and further made fun of that student.
Taking advantage of Covid-19 lockdown, resumed daily, cricket and long distance cycling to second home. Continued despite accident with a car. Learned, somewhat, manual bike, car driving. Started growing my hair, unlike previous forced buzz cuts. Made villager friends there(Group B) near my second home. Visited lot of places on their "redi", a three-wheeled, pedaled, luggage cart, and my cycle, both of which they drived themselves and I sat. Helped one friend's elder sister, who had given me a weird nickname, in English homework, despite it being high school level, I didn't find it hard. A new drama erupted near my second home, but I managed to avoid it as well. K, a popular girl with army of simps and accompanied with a senior girl(SG), slapped me after I refused to accept her chocolate, shake hands with her. A year later, R from my private web chatroom, got angry at this and said, she will slap her back, but I managed to calm her down too. Read more in "Leadership Autobiography." Proposed the idea of collective restrooms to deal with poor sanitation among them. Laid first brick of it with my own hands. Though it did not become reality due to lack of cooperation, funds among villagers, and theft of the brick 4 days later.
Made a profit of around $13 in cryptocurrency, and another $105 in crypto demo account, but as I was a minor at that time, I was not able to withdraw it. So I started focusing more on programming, trading equities in demo account.
At the age of 15, I created three groups and my own Telegram Bot, introduced weekly non-fiction reading threads. One on Telegram for computer and cryptocurrency discussion that gained over 150 members and 50 more from collabration with a Russian group. Another one on my own private web chat platform, 9 members all female. Another one on Signal, for teaching my classmates.
Made my first pull request first pull request in open source project, and also did very first contributions, pull request number 9, 10 to Free Media Heck Yeah Project.
Resumed earning by facilitating in-game micro transactions for others. Started with an opening balance of 1,500 at age 14 and ended with closing balance of 16,000. Also finally received my 4,500 stuck for 5 months due to Paytm not being a traditional bank.
Started learning about internet privacy and security. After gaining enough knowledge about it, I began taking steps to protect myself including purging all my identities, groups, accounts(avg. 10+ a day), even those which were created using alias emails, Github to unrecoverable. Turned off JavaScript, LUKS full disk encryption, using a VPN 24X7, though I used it earlier too but not always on. Switching from Bitwarden to Keepass. Started writing Torcritique article, which I published, defended at 16.
Bought a used, dead, 32 bit, 1 Gb ram computer and solely repaired, upgraded, fine tuned it to purpose as daily driver. Initially installed Lubuntu but later switched to Debian Sid due to Snap and other bloatware. Tested 30 video games in it, deleted 28 within 30 minutes, 2 within 1 hour. Helped Russian group mentioned above to create mods for 1.
Scored 90/100 in grade 10 English(Advanced), despite standard mathematics instead of basic, hating fiction, exams checking by external teachers, changed exam pattern due to covid, and no tuitions. Made correct decision by choosing commerce stream over medical, engineering, despite no previous experience, pressure from parents, friends, and former teachers. Particularly from B, D, E who encouraged me to switch to medicine even during early days of commerce class. And another teacher, not mentioned here, who was more worried about my excessive screen time, my YouTube channel than my stream. Donated my old science textbook to D, but she still kept insisting that I choose medicine. My classmates(C-1) were surprised how I did not ever get covid, or die from it, despite not taking second or third dose of vaccine. But in the end, I had last laugh. [^6]
Age of 16 was true transitory period unlike 17, I set earlier.
I started relearning about nature, wilderness and urban survival, martial arts(Realized their ineffectiveness even before attending any classes), and preparedness. Identified local flora, fauna. English language(IPA, Grammar, style). Created a primitive compass using only one stick, two pebbles and astronomical knowledge. Did my first lacto-fermentation, of Solanum Nigrum. Wrote a note categorizing fluids on based of their relationship with heat and force based of previous experiments.
Organized my Every Day Carry(EDC), supplies in machine readable JSON format, standardizing dates, format of notes, journal, encrypted cloud backups using Rclone. Recovered from a huge data loss(The New Year Data Loss) caused by power outage during partitioning a LUKS encrypted partition. Switched from Debian Sid to Fedora due to instability. Rewrote all my scripts for it.
Learned about major Abrahamic religions, local cults, sociology, philosophy, evolutionary biology, mathematics(modified SDL approach). Preached about it to new classmates. Debunked casteism, inherent superiority through evolutionary biology, which I had already through other arguments. An ex classmate(EC from C-1) got radicalized after combining knowledge of evolutionary biology learned from me with far right propaganda. I blocked him, got him banned by a moderator friend within a hour. He never reached my Fanclub. Held discussion session among classmates of different religions, or lack thereof, with me speaking from all sides.
Resisted antibiotics, cosmetics, and fake treatments of a dermal issue in favor of a specialized holistic approach, and self-prescribed topical pharmaceuticals. Gained more scientific reasons to avoid cosmetic, which I always did. I have never used sunscreen, moisturizer, skin whitening powder or other cosemtics.
Self diagnosed myself with a mental condition and developed coping mechanisms. Along with overall learning about pharmaceuticals, I learned about negative effects, classes of psychoactive drugs. Which helped me in successfully resisting them from psychiatrist at age 17
Learned and implemented about nutrition, cooking, vocabulary of tastes and textures, and weight gain. Integrated previous knowledge of "nature", programming with it. Gained more reasons to avoid junk food, which I has been doing since years. Improved diet a lot through introducing lot of foods, juices(though later stopped), supplements, diet plans. Reduced consumption of of spices, onions and garlic. Later two were previously removed due to religious practices of my grandparent, but later reintroduced by them. I got garlic removed for rational reasons, but couldn't onions and spices.
Convinced my father to open an equity trading account for me, and I started investing my savings into low expense-ratio ETfs and few individual stocks. In less than 6 months, I was able to make a profit of around 10%. Learned about XMR(Monero) algorithm, experimented with test net and mining.
Uploaded my first project, a password manager, my website, not this one, 26+ point critique of Tor, on Github, just 3 dsys after my exams were over, and 4 days before high school started. Created a Micro editor plugin to insert current dates in ISO 8601 format and various other Vim customizations. Learned about Matrix protocol, created an account to share, defended my Tor article, privacy setup. Until I got banned and labelled "paranoid". Then created a private group which gained 3 members and deleted it within 2 weeks.
Started learning C++, relearning about reverse engineering, electrical engineering through use of simulators. Most of my reverse engineering projects were done in Windows XP, DOS, some in Mac OS 9. As seen in the screenshot, I managed to bypass the key verification of MS Office 97 only by using Borland Turbo and Notepad in Windows XP. Other things I reverse engineered are old J2ME software, firmware for my Awesome J2ME project, Android apps for removing unnecessary bloatware, permissions.
Became favorite student again, of multiple teachers, despite completely new teachers, subjects, classmates(C-2). The new male classmates were slightly better than previous. They mostly minded their own business, though they still often invited me. Did not face any major thefts or fights, they kept it to themselves. I didn't try to unite them, though I still had , positive relationship with almost everyone. Was only one to be allowed to do just examples instead of questions in homework. Only one to not have economics, though it wasn't favoritism but loophole. Was only one allowed to bring phone in classroom(though I didn't much out of respect), and other school relationships, which I won't detail. Became favorite student of G, who didn't even teach our class, yet she still defended me from rumors, allegations, coming mostly from C-2A, C-2B. Even I was assigned a nickname inspired by G's real name by girls of G's class, but none of us cared.
A new classmate, V, would sit parallel to my bench(nearest way possible), even if it meant changing the place of another female classmate, without her consent. She would sit on my bench as soon I went outside, leave after I came. Going outside was necessary, even if it prevented me from having lunch, as in recess the classroom was fully occupied by females, was loud and it was odd being only male there. Though I didn't call her out, as her presence was helpful to me for deterring thieves, and some other positive factors. She stopped, after I switched my row after being invited by C-2A to their row, where I sat alone too, though members, even of C-2B, often came to temporarily sit with me. Though V still continued occasionally throwing paper balls, speaking against C-2A, defending me to teachers, but I never defended her, or anyone else.
Scored 95/100 in grade 11 Information Technology, which is highest score in whole session, across all sections. Served as monitor, technincal helper to students, teachers in computer lab, for whole session, despite often bynking class to leave for home. Served in English lab too, due to my constantly highest scores in pronunciation, listening and essay writing, reading exams
At Age of 17, I learned about lot of things, improved my knowledge of psychology, nutrition, politics, philosophy, evolutionary biology, web development.
Hardened my setup by creating an Iptables based killswitch script that automatically extracts, allows IPs, ports from Openvpn config, blocking rest, sandboxing, using Vim as only editor, local, online LLMs etc. Made many decisions including making list of over 120 universities, 15+ accomodations to avoid, what exams to take, what programming career to pursue, what projects to make, business/startup plans, experimented with different programming career, how should I handle legal matters after turning 18. Created a GEDCOM genealogy tree with 100+ nodes, deduced my ancestral village, which is now in Pakistan, dialect, and more.
Learned about various equity related strategies through paper trading, backtracking, refined mine one, sold ETFs for individual stocks. Opened a personal, minor bank account. Reached 16% profit. Shared these lessons with classmates leading to loss of a member of C-2C worth more -1,000, which C-2A congratulated me for "causing".
The environment of our class got bit better as 9 students, mostly C-2B, were expelled for failing on their second attempt of grade 11 exams, which marked the end of C-2B. Teachers remained the same, no new student joined. V stopped her clingy behavior, while some others became more overt. Despite the improvements, I didn't wish to waste my time there. I managed to convince my parents to not send me there regularly.
Successfully resisted against psychoactive "medicine", by debating psychiatrist, for chronic insomnia, help gain weight, and some other false diagnosed mental illnesses including paranoia, trauma, which was diagnosed on basis of challenges I faced, not on how I feel about them, in favor of a holistic approach, including improving my method of mindfulness meditation, of sun bathing, diet, which worked to a great extent. Later I tested 0.25mg of benzodepines, instead of 1g prescribed, twice out of desperation in strong insomina but later quit after two tests, after it validated my previous concerns.
Created a Matrix group(Fanclub) and related scripts, that gained over 200 members. Conducted an empirical study to objectively measure influence in Fanclub, which I had highest. Created an educational Reddit chatroom that gained 13 members, an associated Matrix group. My Reddit account gained 1,000+ Karma, despite mass downvotes. Processed, and shared highly optimized study material, scripts. Helped in technical, sensitive tasks involding legal documents related to upcoming exams.
I bought a custom built laptop, and customized it further. Released Awesome J2ME, which gained over 90 stars, over 5 contributors and passed all 33 checks in first pull request, got featured in multiple sources including Hackclub, Awesome Java(45K+ stars). Released NutritionCLI(INI), and DietCLI(JSON) a blazingly fast, cross-platform nutrition in C++ tracker that completes full run including calculating, printing in 001s not just parsing. Benchmark at Kaggle. Created debit-credit-deducer, a C++ program to deduce whether a transaction is debit or credit. Laid foundation for professional life at 18, by creating logo, username, resume, accounts.
Switched to wet shaving with a double edged razor, instead of cartridge. Recognized my hair type as naturally wavy(2B), porosity, and other characteristics. As well on oils, water quality, proteins. Gained reasons to the resist the forced hair straightening procedures, commercial hair products which I always did resist. Despite the trend, I didn't practice the "No Poo" movement. Because both it's name and practice is disgusting. The negative impact of shampoo is minimal and reversible and I have been using it in moderation anyways, without conditioner
Learned, experimented about gases, mostly smoke, fragrances, VOC, air pollution. Particularly in context of incense, personal fragrances, stubble burnings. Started lacto fermenting nuts, legumes for increasing bioavailability, but later stopped after learning about habitats of pathogens, seasonal changes, and broader change in view about bioavailability, though I never faced any consequences.
Scored 94/100 in grade 12 Information Technology exam, and 82 in economics exam, despite not having economics subject in grade 11 and having 6 mandatory subjects instead of 5, preparing for unrelated subjects(Mathematics, English, CS, Aptitude, Science) for entrance exams, and not attending any tuitions, barely going to school. Recived ceritificate of apperciation from a technology university.
At the age of 18, I started my professional life as "HstSethi". Achieved legal freedom. Created this website, online accounts, projects, three memoirs, resume, LaTex resume template, No Frills dotfiles, scripts and associated manifesto. Reviewed multiple e-commerce stores, made my own Amazon account and converted repeated purchases section list to Amazon List, for easier purchases.
Created an educational, tech group, on the first day of college. Reported errors in study material. Created another unofficial group, even before start of previous college, which gained 11 members.
Continued improving knowledge of psychology, politics, nutrition. Learned about different types of textiles, introduced other fabrics. Debunked the overvalued status of cotton through it's own shortcomings: lack of moisture wicking properties, loss of insulation properties when in moist environments. Started sleeping on floor till winters, instead of memory foam, which helped in insomina too. Diagnosed myself with total, multisensory aphantasia, I'm only good in one, but that advantage is completely useless for me. And other conditions, which I won't share. The only reason I'm sharing this one a year layer, because it can explain much of my behavior. Continued genealogical research, but this time a very different and difficult goal. Stillmanaged to deduce a lot, digitalize evidence.
Started focusing on specific set of skills including AI engineering, technical writing and finance. Volunteered at Models Limited Public Beta at Github, and at Geeks For Geeks as a technical writer, though I left after a while. I also reached over 125 stars, 20+ pull requests on Github, over 1,000 followers on LinkedIn, completed Hacktoberfest 2024 with 6 pull requests accepted, including 4 in top 5 highest starred projects.
Gave CUET-UG for 4 subjects, and scored 180 in English. Scored 865/~9000 rank in IPU CET BCA 2024 without any kind of reservations(minimum 85% reservation was there) or formal education, while competing against those who had both, but I could not attend due to financial issues. None of the subjects I studied in high school were evaluated in both of the exams. Switched two different universities, living accommodations(PGs). Survived numerous harrasments there including interrogation by group of school boys who insisted that I come to their school, and a woman who called me "uneducated" after I refuse to talk to her in English, or in general. Before enrolling myself into an open university, due to low fees and high freedom and living in my second home. Despite not studying at all, focusing on stock market, poor conditions, and totally different subjects from high school, I was the first one in folllowing cases:to complete all of my first semester exams; announce the results are declared; discrepancies in them; help students in it. I completed all 5 exams, which were of 150 minutes, with M: 24.2, SD: 2.4 and SGPA of 7.6. I could score higher if I had cheated in exams, like many others, but I do not care enough to do so. See descriptive statistics, all evidences in this gist.
Applied my knowledge to single-handedly renovate(20+ improvements) my own second home survive winters and multiple intruders there, including an sexual molestation by a "hijra", which I survived through jumping through moving tuk tuk, assertiveness, lying, learning from previous, personal experiences of survival, and recording evidence, which I will release in March. Later raised voice regarding the neglect of Hijra in LGBT communities, despite me being a straight man who had adopted the persona of a "femboy". Dut which word "Hijra" was unbanned. Tested and negatively reviewed two pepper sprays in real life conditions(no protective equipment, both close and long range etc). Developed and implemented comprehensive, underweight friendly, equipment-free exercise, posture plan.
Reached 25% in equity. Doubled my capital within a month of
writing my financial autobiography. Became Self Made,
Equity Lakhpati, 100,000+ at market value, within 3 months
of writing, in Worst Bear Run in 29 years
, as
Reuters reports. bear market, 4 days before first semester
exams, which I was the first one to complete too.
Digitalized The Foolish Dictionary into various machine readable formats. Proposed the idea of converting old academic works to modern mathematical notation. Released PearTok, a full stack P2P token transfer app in Go, JavaScript. Released InMobPrefix, dataset charts, AI models of prefixes of mobile numbers, that got featured in Awesome OSINT(20K+ stars). Created a dataset of compounds of solanum nigrum and related species. Released specification, scripts for authoring structured, machine readable lists in Markdown. Open sourced my IOT, real time financial info device startup plan. Pinpointed the cause of Zero Division error in Vosk ASR and sent a patch for it, which other two issues could not. for 3 years. Answered a special, using private link sent to me, survey on AI programming technologies by University Of Tilburg, Netherlands.
Uploaded 5 wild, including 4 toxic, plants specimens, and got awarded with "Research Grade" label on of three toxic ones. Coauthored an AI ethics article. Reported 4+ errors in major journalism platforms on various topics including nuclear energy, zoology and grammatical errors.
After my first semester exams were over, I decided to go small business owners, not for financial reasons. One of my father's connection, a stock broker, overtly rejected me on first meet for reason not in my control and criticized my choice of stocks, broker, recommended me to use his employer's brokerage service. Later on the same day, the other of my father's connection indirectly showed disinterest in first meet while trying to appear enthusiastic and lecturing us for 3 hours straight. I didn't go to any of them again. I then alone went to that shopkeeper who had explicitly invited me, about a year ago. He was soft spoken, but and we both agreed that his business would be unrelated to my pursuits, so he referred me to his friend's family business. The next day I went there alone.
Immediately after the amusement around my stock portfolio and AI projects was over, I was micromanaged, not allowed idle time at the business. I was assigned a cleaning, organizing task for 30 minutes. I kept repeating cleaning to look busy, because it was already clean. Then slowly moved to diagnosing an error in boss's computer, packing boxes, driving cycle to bring a 3KG item, a personal chore of boss. An electrical work in which though wires weren't connected to connection, but it involved carrying, climbing and then carrying back ladder to basement. Despite boss's wife(BW) saying I won't be able to do it, I successfully did it twice while she held the ladder. Sorting, loading heavy(20kg each) yet fragile boxes loading into truck, transporting them through stairs, a task exclusive to males, and made pen in my pocket leak. A woman coworker advised me to tie my laces, walk slowly, but she just 2 minutes later, ended up tripping herself by stumping with a heavy box on floor, and accepting my slight help to pickup fallen stuff.
Two Punjabi women customers asked me lot of personal questions. Inluding why I was doing this "slavery" despite being underweight, young, being Punjabi, and having knowledge of technology, finance. Though they didn't even buy the product I was assigned to sell because they found it expensive, I wasn't allowed to offer discounts. Another male customer reacted similarly on hearing my last name, which he assumed was a higher social status. I came back within 3 hours with an excuse, the only reason I delayed a bit due to some friendly coworkers and I always wanted to do blue collar work. There is no way I would have continued it as it's unpaid slavery, and commutation cost alone is 12,000 per month. In evening, I got an apology call from BW, requesting me to come back. And another from the shopkeeper who had refferd me, but the transportation costs are enough reason to avoid.
That was just a start. I strongly believe in self directed[^2], lifelong learning. I am continuously learning new things, learning from my previous mistakes. I do not solely focus on technology and finance. I also do have knowledge of various other topics including philosophy[^6], psychology, nature(preparedness, wilderness, first aid, botany, felids), biology(evolutionary, nutrition), business, culture(genealogy, language, history, religion).
Things I dislike[^4] are: Fiction(art, video games, music, movies, "true" crime, comedy, documentaries, novels, self-help, ...). Consumerism(foodism[^5], pet culture, modern education system, modern web, emoji, email notifications, news, psychoactive substances, ...). Irrational behaviour(anti-intellectualism, profanity, arguing on the internet or with fools, inherent or group based inferiority or superiority...)
I never focused much on academics, consider them waste of time. Yet, I was able to score high, even in those subjects which I had no formal education of, gain medals, win quizzes, become favorite student of multiple teachers, many teachers had high expectations from me, had positive experience with majority of them. I was always the first one to complete exams, never failed in any exam, never took drop years. All without going to tuitions, not having any reservations(didn't even apply for like mental health and family structure), and having achievements in other areas. There were some rumors, nicknames(30+), that my classmates spread, not just about me, but about teachers too. Alongside with jumping up on me in groups a few times. That my connections with teacher helped in that, but they couldn't explain how I scored on exams checked by external teachers. Or a top bookworm said that I intentionally did not write correct answers. Or I cheated in exams, but the nearby students were themselves dependent on me. W shouted that it was due to feral cat bite. Or that I bathe with milk. But as always, I did not care.
Despite facing so much physical and mental trauma, I have not experienced any major setbacks. I haven't even ever cried since age 8. Zero bones, heart broken, no burns, dog bites, loss of consciousness, hospital admits, no suicide attempts, major food poisonings, all limbs, finger intact. Though I would still like to warn readers to be cautious. Maintain your distance from unknown plants, animals, surroundings and humans.
While none of the teachers taught me important skills which I have now, it would be wrong to say that teachers favoritism didn't help me. So I want to acknowledge it here. Correct my previous mistake where I had completely omitted it. What is considered as favoritism is subjective. What were there motivations is also impossible to know, but I can assure you it's not what media often portrays. I only mention those here who explicitly, and publicly admitted their favoritism. One such prime example is A, from age 10, remark on my report card. One teacher from age 15, who was worried about my screen time isn't assigned initial by me, because she never outright admitted it. Regarding evidence, providing such evidence, beyond what's provided, would be impossible: mobile phones weren't allowed in school; providing that would be dox the teachers.
Even after reading my autobiographies, many people have asked me how did I succeed. It's difficult to answer, as success is subjective, but achievements are objective. Success is just making right decisions early on, while avoiding wrong decisions or not getting too late. It's about being free from external influences and deviating from the norm. Some level of sleep deprivation, social isolation is necessary for it. While luck does not exist, randomness does a play a minor role too by introducing the oppurtunities at most. My learning method, SDL, did help in it too.
Evidence images are not displayed inline due to lack of space and to speed up loading. Those linked in autobiographies are not linked here. You can jump to account of specific age by appending "#age-n" to the URL. Where {n: 1 - 18}. Or you can use POSIX SH get-random-auto-bio-account script, which I personally use. It “Returns HTML of random account from short-autobiography and renders it.”
All female teachers, who are relevant to the story, are assigned initials from A-Z in order they appear. For female classmates, it's from Z-A. Rest are random.
While this autobiography may give a picture that my life is a bed of roses, it's far far from truth. I have faced, and still face, many challenges, criticisms, rumors, insults, lot of social pressure, people calling me priviliged but I have not mentioned them here, even though they could amplify my success, and raise donations. I have not used them to get reservations or support from the government. Because: I don't see any merit in crying or swiping the victim card; I don't wish to traumatize people; it is hard to explain objectively; this site is SFW; what people say doesn't affect me; my challenges are also a reason behind my success. While I do mention some important ones, I stress on how I overcame them.
As this autobiography is a result of connecting, fact-checking thousands of sources. I have used my own memory, a lot of sources, and shared many as "proofs" whenever feasible. I just don't recall, I also note down how much variables of episodic memory I could recall and find insights in them. My other sources are asking others, my old handwritten written material, other memories* my notes, journal, todo list, school awards, topics of books, screenshots, chat logs, recordings, bookmarks*, bank history, browser history, OSINTing myself, digital forensics, weather, config and data files, legal documents etc.
*: Important source
For example, a method I used recently. I was recalling a specific song that was being played during an event. I knew that during that time, the song was newly released and was playing everywhere. I searched on YouTube and checked the release date of song. I used that, along with other clues like weather, to deduce the exact date of the event. While I don't listen to music intentionally, I was often forced to do so due to environment. I use similar method with book topics, software release, other events etc.
But few of sources have been lost with time. Some evidences were never recorded. One such source was a magazine which my school published, on which I was featured on multiple times. Some of my digital sources were lost after I realized the importance of internet privacy at age and intentionally purged majority of data to be unrecoverable of 15. And "The New Year Data Loss" at 16.
Still think my autobiography is fake? Well you can challenge me and win rewards. 100 rupees for proving any of my claim false(Did not happen at all), 150 rupees for proving the opposite of what is claimed, ie net loss instead of net profit. Public apology and your name will be permanently listed here. This only applies to this article, not to any other opinion, idea expressed by me.
All claims must contain the following metadata: year, evidence, how you obtained the evidence, why you think it's false.
Failure to adhere to any of the requirement will permanently disqualify you. You can make unlimited claims, hence earn unlimited money, but getting your two claims proved wrong will also permanently disqualify you.
For more information regarding my finance journey, checkout my free financial autobiography From Coins To 25% In Equity At 18: My Financial Autobiography. In it I share, how a coin, stationery collection hobby paved my way as an equity trader, making 25% profit in equity, doubling my capital and then finally becoming self made, equity Lakhpati at the age of 18, on his own.
For more information regarding my online leadership, privacy journey and groups I have created, check out my free memoir 5 Lessons From Founding Tech Groups + Memoir AKA "Leadership Autobiography".
For more information regarding how I do my computing, what softwares do I use, what I do not and why not, scripts, dotfiles and manifesto, check out my No Frills Dotfiles project.
Felids do not just refer to domestic cats. Felids refer to any genera within felidae family. I used this word, instead of "cat", because many people were confused. I do not just admire domestic cats, I am more intereseted in studying all genera within felidae family, including Felis, Acinonyx, Panthera, and their respective species, from a biological perspective, in their natural habitat. This is one of the many reasons I do not have pets. My another reason is that I don't have access to meat.
Self Directed Learning(SDL) means not following any fixed roadmap, syllabus, instructions of someone. It is inherently open ended, curiosity, skepticism driven and subjective. It can not be taught, as building blocks of it like curiosity, critical thinking abilities, IQ are innate. For example, Wikipedia rabbit hole, exploring an unknown environment, my approach of SDL where I do not read much books, watch courses, follow a roadmap, or practice isolated or repeated set of exercises. Instead, I first mediate on the topic. Then I seek relevant literature, especially review articles.
Epistemological skepticism, naturism, asceticism(as a means to end, not the end in itself), pragmatism, individual and objective achievements, existentialism, political philosophy, truth, aesthics as spectrum. Truth, aesthetics both exist on a spectrum, because our senses are not perfect. They are neither exclusively objective or subjective, they are both. It depends on the context and claim which is being made. My knowledge of philosophical terms comes from a need to express my own ideas in a concise and well accepted manner. I do not read philosophical works. I highly prefer, and I'm genetically predisposed, at real life problem solving, analytical work.
I consider the idea of absolutely hating a thing to be anti-intellectualism. It is very rare to hate all aspects of a thing. I have tried or studied about everything I dislike. Even for the things I dislike, there are few things in them which I admire. Additionally, the above list is a list of things I dislike, not what I want government to ban, or people to start disliking too.
While I dislike onion, garlic, ketchup, spices, and condiments, I don't consider myself a "picky eater", but a rational eater. I eat food only to fulfill my nutritional needs, even if it's not considered tasty.
But in the end, I had last laugh, as majority of them had enrolled into commerce or humanities course despite wasting so much time, money on tuitions, taking drop years. This isn’t just an anecdotal observation. More than 34,000 of them dropped out between 2019-2022, as Hindustan Times report. Such students also have high suicide rates, 13,089 alone in 2021 as per Times of India report. Another report by Ministry of Education itself details on mental impact of such peer pressure. 75% of students with bachelors in engineering pursue MBA, a completely unrelated management program, as Republic World reports.
