Ravi Shah

Ravi Shah

Building in New York City. Before that, healthcare private equity at in Chicago, after the .

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Projects

Projects

03 things I’m building

  1. 7:42

    Saturday, September 27

    68° · Partly cloudy
    • 10:00Ops review
    • 1:30Lunch, Nolita
    • 7:00Dinner, West Village

    68° and dry · office

    Navy tee · Olive chino · White sneaker

    Swap shoesLess formalWear this

    Leave by 9:18

    12min

    R train to Prince St · on time

    • Keys
    • Wallet
    • AirPods
    Mirror software with sample data

    01 Hardware bring-up

    AI Mirror

    A discontinued $1,500 Lululemon Mirror, bought used for $150 and rebuilt as a bedroom mirror that helps me get dressed and out the door.

    Paid
    $150, originally $1,500
    Panel
    Samsung 40-inch LCD behind the glass
    Brain
    Raspberry Pi 5, one local service, SQLite
    Modes
    Day ahead, Get dressed, Head out, Sleep

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  2. MealsLive

    Spicy tofu Mexican bowl

    Lunch · 20 min · uses the rice and black beans you have

    Protein
    30g
    Carbs
    60g
    Fat
    18g
    SleepEight Sleep

    7h 48m

    Score 86 · last 7 nights

    ReadinessOura

    HRV above your baseline

    ActivityApple Health

    9,412 steps

    Two lifts, one run this week

    LabsSuperpower

    ApoB 72 mg/dL

    In range · retest in March

    Sample data · tap a card

    02 Meals live, data layers next

    Personal Health OS

    One place for what I eat, how I sleep, how I train and what my bloodwork says, starting with the question I ask most: what should I eat?

    Live
    WhatToEat at eat.ravishah.work
    Inputs
    Pantry, taste, goals, a daily check-in
    Next
    Oura, Eight Sleep, Apple Health, labs

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  3. astro 6.1.9 · three.js 0.186.1

    Live on Cloudflare Pages · built Sep 27, 2026

    10,465 lines of three.js · 24 files · no 3D files imported

    03 Live

    This website

    The map at the top is built from code: the Quad, the Loop and Broadway, modeled in three.js with no 3D files.

    World
    10,465 lines of three.js across 24 files
    Places
    Foellinger, 200 N LaSalle, Wrigley Field, 446 Broadway, the Williamsburg Bridge
    Flight
    LGA to ORD and back: pushback, taxi, takeoff and landing, about 42 seconds each way
    Hosting
    Static, on Cloudflare Pages from GitHub

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Stack

25 things I use

Software

Claude

Anthropic · General AI tool for thinking, drafting, and building.

Useful as a patient second brain when the task needs structure before speed.

Ghostty

Fast native terminal.

A terminal should feel quiet, immediate, and solid enough to disappear.

Granola

AI meeting notes and recall.

Good notes should preserve judgment and next steps without turning every meeting into admin.

Superhuman

Fast email client.

Email is better when it feels like command line work: quick, searchable, and out of the way.

Impeccable

Design critique workflow for frontend polish.

Useful when a page needs taste, hierarchy, and restraint checked before it ships.

WhatRuns

Browser extension for identifying website tech stacks.

A small curiosity tool for understanding how good products are actually built.

Wardrobe

Buck Mason

American basics and everyday clothing.

Easy pieces when the goal is to look put together without looking arranged.

Lululemon

Training and everyday performance clothing.

Works when a day moves between gym, errands, and desk without a full costume change.

Mack Weldon

Underlayers and daily basics.

The useful layer of the wardrobe: not the point, but missed immediately when wrong.

Marine Layer

Soft casual clothing.

Comfortable defaults for weekends, travel days, and anything that should not feel overbuilt.

Polo Ralph Lauren

Ralph Lauren · Classic polos and casual staples.

A familiar reference point when the outfit wants a little structure without becoming formal.

Vuori

Soft performance basics.

Clean enough to wear out, comfortable enough to forget about.

Desk, bedroom, health, kitchen and travel

Library

7 books · 7 movies · 7 shows

Books

Bryan Burrough and John Helyar · 1990

Barbarians at the Gate

Deal theater, incentives, ego, and capital structure told with enough texture to stay useful.

Charles T. Munger · 2005

Poor Charlie's Almanack

A compounding manual disguised as speeches and mental models.

Walter Isaacson · 2011

Steve Jobs

A useful, imperfect study of taste, intensity, product judgment, and the cost of bending reality.

David Deutsch · 2011

The Beginning of Infinity

Explanations, progress, and the strange optimism of taking ideas seriously.

Richard W. Hamming · 2020

The Art of Doing Science and Engineering

A clear push toward better questions, deeper work, and choosing problems that can compound.

Claire Hughes Johnson · 2023

Scaling People

A practical operating manual for hiring, feedback, meetings, and the systems that let teams keep pace.

Rick Rubin · 2023

The Creative Act

Less about art advice, more about keeping attention clean enough to notice what is alive.

Movies tap a ticket

TV change the channel

CH 02 The Wire David Simon · 2002

Institutions, incentives, language, and systems failure with almost no wasted motion.

Taste, status, reinvention, and the quiet violence of people selling stories to themselves.

A clean escalation study: choices, consequences, and the slow conversion of competence into damage.

Maybe the best show about building: ambition, taste, ego, timing, and the work between versions.

Capital, family systems, language games, and the comedy of people mistaking proximity for power.

Operations as emotion: standards, pressure, systems, taste, and the small rituals that hold it together.

A newer signal: strange premise, precise world-building, and the kind of show that rewards close watching.