Navanit Arakeri Navanit Arakeri :: arakeri@stanfordalumni.org

Hi,

I live in Bangalore now, where I run a lifestyle business focussed on building solutions to help people get the most out of their smartphones. Previously I studied in Austin, Texas and Palo Alto, California before heading on to the Seattle area to work at Microsoft. As a Program Manager there, I was fortunate enough to work with a great team and two wonderful managers who helped me own the Kernel and Filesystem of Windows CE. I moved on in 2007 to go backpacking. My travels through South America, Africa, and SE Asia were exciting and wonderful. I take an ancestral approach to health - eschewing most carbs, and training very intensely for brief periods.

I'm pretty risk averse in my business activities which often means that most people find them quite mundane and uninteresting. I have also learnt that I prefer to not discuss my business and future plans because the following idea happens to apply to me:

"People who talk about their intentions are less likely to make them happen." [1] [2]

There are usually far more interesting things to discuss anyway.

Travel

Backpacking 2007: My Travel log (South America, Africa, and SE Asia. This used to be a blog, but a database corruption meant that I had to recover it in this ugly format. Sorry).