Field Notes

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B. Talvinder

Stop Funding Federated Learning in Indian Healthcare

Federated learning pilots ignore the actual infrastructure problems in Indian healthcare—most tier-2 hospitals can’t maintain patient records, let alone train models locally.

Mar 5, 2026

Distress Detection Is a Switching Cost, Not a Safety Feature

Agentic Systems

Product Strategy

Consumer AI

Consumer AI platforms accumulate intimate emotional context that creates unprecedented lock-in — and unprecedented risk.

Mar 4, 2026

Why Indian SaaS Companies Will Win the Agent Reliability War

Agentic Systems

Indian SaaS

Production AI

Indian SaaS companies have a structural advantage in agent deployment: twenty years of building reliability layers for unreliable conditions.

Mar 4, 2026

Side B — Poetry, philosophy, and the thinking that doesn’t fit anywhere else. The record isn’t complete without it.

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Field Notes

Stop Funding Federated Learning in Indian Healthcare

Distress Detection Is a Switching Cost, Not a Safety Feature

Why Indian SaaS Companies Will Win the Agent Reliability War

Rant Without a Rhyme

Why I Started Coding

Being Ephemeral, Being Scary, and Dealing With It

Tushky: From a Mumbai Apartment to 500 Startups

Nail Your Vulnerability

Roots of Happiness