# Kartik Bihani

> A corner of the internet for my thoughts. A personal journal by Kartik Bihani — essays ("thoughts"), year-by-year life reflections and entries ("life"), and letters. Guiding idea: "Peace in the pursuit of Greatness."

Total content: 5 thoughts, 3 life entries, 2 letters, 1 reflections (~8,066 words).
Every page is statically rendered HTML and fully readable without JavaScript. Links to the canonical source pages are listed below.

## When to use this
- [Find and cite Kartik's writing](https://kartikbihani.com/api/content): Use GET without authentication to list published essays, letters, and life entries. For an individual thought, letter, or life entry, append /json to its canonical path for the full text; read yearly reflections at their HTML paths. Cite the author and canonical URL.
- [Understand Kartik's background](https://kartikbihani.com/about): Use this site for questions about his documented experiences, move to San Francisco, and personal reflections. Check each article's date; personal essays are not professional advice.
- [Integrate the public content API](https://kartikbihani.com/docs): Use the documented GET endpoints to retrieve published text or check content hashes for changes. No write or messaging actions are available. Cache successful responses and space requests by at least one second.
- [Read the homepage as Markdown](https://kartikbihani.com/): Send Accept: text/markdown to this same URL. HTML remains available with Accept: text/html. Negotiate using quality weights; unsupported representations return 406. Unknown pages return Markdown errors with HTTP 404 when requested.

## Thoughts
- [I Like Capitalism](https://kartikbihani.com/thoughts/i-like-capitalism): many people think capitalism is a system, something with rules and markets and a government behind it. I don't really see it that way. To me capitalis… [1939 words, March 17, 2026]
- [I Turned 21 Today](https://kartikbihani.com/thoughts/i-turned-21-today): I turned 21 today. Man, does it feel weird. Weird, but also insanely exciting for the future. The past few weeks have been so strange that I still don… [1094 words, June 8, 2026]
- [I'm a big fan of Jack of all trades, master of none.](https://kartikbihani.com/thoughts/jack-of-all-trades-master-of-none): I've always grown up hearing that you have to be good at one thing. You hear it everywhere. Podcasts, books, mentors. Pick one skill. Become great at… [612 words, February 26, 2026]
- [How I Think About Money](https://kartikbihani.com/thoughts/how-i-think-about-money): My relationship with money has always been a little different. Maybe some people will relate. As a kid, you don't really worry about money. You don't… [720 words, January 16, 2026]
- [Why Is Life Full of Surprises and Complete Unexpectedness?](https://kartikbihani.com/thoughts/life-full-of-surprises): Just writing this while waiting for my flight to start boarding. I'm going to Dubai for Nas Daily's summer residency for a month, but that's not what… [189 words, June 30, 2025]

## Life
- [Life in 2026](https://kartikbihani.com/life/2026): Yearly experiences from 2026.
- [Life in 2025](https://kartikbihani.com/life/2025): Yearly experiences from 2025.
- [i flew private for the first time](https://kartikbihani.com/life/2026/i-flew-private-for-the-first-time): I have always seen private jets as a symbol of insane luxury. It definitely is that, but for me it has always been a little more interesting than just… [949 words, June 5, 2026]
- [I just finished college](https://kartikbihani.com/life/2026/i-finished-college): I just finished college today. May 15, 2026. I'm 20. The strange part is that I don't really know how it feels. People keep asking me the same questio… [709 words, May 15, 2026]
- [I just moved to SF](https://kartikbihani.com/life/2026/i-just-moved-to-sf): I moved to San Francisco. For a second, it feels weird to say, but at the same time, it feels like, yeah, it was always gonna happen. The way things w… [1132 words, August 21, 2026]

## Letters
- [A Letter to Begin](https://kartikbihani.com/letters/first-letter): Dear future self, I'm writing this at the start of something new. I don't know what this year will bring, but I wanted to capture this moment—the unce… [58 words, January 1, 2025]
- [On Patience](https://kartikbihani.com/letters/on-patience): Dear future self, Today I'm learning that patience isn't passive. It's an active choice to trust the process, even when progress feels invisible. Some… [48 words, January 15, 2025]

## About
- [Home](https://kartikbihani.com/): Hi! my name is kartik. This is a place for my thoughts, written down. i'm building this so i don't forget who i was, what i cared about, and what i th…
- [Privacy Policy](https://kartikbihani.com/privacy-policy): How this site handles data.
- [About Kartik Bihani](https://kartikbihani.com/about): Background and context for this personal journal.
- [Contact Kartik Bihani](https://kartikbihani.com/contact): Public contact channels and how to report corrections.

## Developer resources
- [Kartik Bihani API documentation](https://kartikbihani.com/docs): Authentication, endpoints, example requests, and error resolution.
- [Kartik Bihani OpenAPI specification](https://kartikbihani.com/openapi.json): OpenAPI 3.1 operation IDs, typed parameters, and response schemas.

## Machine-readable discovery
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- [Content API (JSON)](https://kartikbihani.com/api/content)