I’m Vatsal, a philosopher and entrepreneur.

Mission

• To ground ethics in a naturalistic foundation.
• To understand what knowledge is, and build tools that make it accessible to everyone.

Projects

• Nasada A productivity suite for the AI era.
• Universal Open Textbook Initiative World’s largest repository of free, multilingual textbooks.
• Vatsal’s Podcast Philosophical conversations with people from different fields.
• Vatsal’s Newsletter Essays on human knowledge, moral philosophy, and AI.

Books

I’m working on a trilogy on the foundations of morality and the nature of knowledge.

• Freedom and Morality An outline of the system, in under 60 pages.
• Book 2 (In Progress) A poetic, intimate exploration of the same ideas.
• Book 3 (Planned) The full technical exposition, for professional philosophers.

Favorites

• Novel: The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky
• Film: Mirror by Tarkovsky
• People: Buddha, Newton