Yash Bhardwaj is a senior software engineer in Bangalore — building Kafka-driven integrations at Equinix, and shipping AI-augmented side projects with Claude and MCP.https://yshbhrdwj.com/https://yshbhrdwj.com/blog/health-at-human-speed/https://yshbhrdwj.com/blog/health-at-human-speed/Yaar, I've uninstalled Cult.fit three times. So have you. So has half your WhatsApp group. Slowly is the app I started building for that person — and the design choices that came from refusing to ship one more streak.Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThealthproductslowlydesignsystems-thinkinghttps://yshbhrdwj.com/blog/four-pillars/https://yshbhrdwj.com/blog/four-pillars/I used to set goals in one area of life and watch the others quietly collapse. Mummy stopped asking when I'd come home. My gym streak died. My SIPs sat un-incremented for two years. So I sat down and mapped out four pillars I refuse to let rot — and gave each one its own plan.Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTlife-designhealthsystems-thinkingpersonal-growthhttps://yshbhrdwj.com/blog/greatness-is-a-stack-of-small-things/https://yshbhrdwj.com/blog/greatness-is-a-stack-of-small-things/I spent six months trying to become a different person through pure willpower. It worked roughly never. Then I switched the unit of analysis — from goals to identity — and the same small actions started compounding. Notes from the trenches.Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThealthidentityhabitspersonal-developmenthttps://yshbhrdwj.com/blog/software-engineer-trading-system/https://yshbhrdwj.com/blog/software-engineer-trading-system/Every Telegram tipper promises you the holy grail setup for ₹300/month. The honest secret is that strategy is the smallest part of trading. As a software engineer learning the markets, I realized the real work was specifying the contract around the trade — and that changed everything.Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTsoftwaresystems-thinkingengineeringtradinghttps://yshbhrdwj.com/blog/stop-trying-to-control-yourself/https://yshbhrdwj.com/blog/stop-trying-to-control-yourself/For a long time, my problem with trading wasn't strategy — it was that I couldn't stop. Bas ek aur trade, and then bas ek aur. One line in a journal flipped the entire frame for me, and it turned out to be about a lot more than markets.Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTtradingpsychologydisciplinedecision-making