Himanshu Kalra

Writing

• 4 July 2026

  Deeply personalised learning

  If I am reading business advice, it is tailored to my unique goals and situation. If I am learning with someone else, there is a scoreboard. Spaced repetition and active recall built into…

• 20 May 2026

  Learn and teach

  Learn about users. Teach what you've learned to the builders and decision-makers. What makes a researcher effective at this? Here's a take: 1/ Teach only some of what you learn - and do it…

• 15 May 2026

  It's just an AI wrapper

  Nobody looks at a drill and says "it's just a motor." Nobody calls a fan "just a motor with blades." But that's exactly what those things are. It's just that someone put the effort to…

• 13 May 2026

  AI changes the question

  AI changes the question. When an analyst dismisses an alert because the AI flagged it low-priority, did they evaluate it independently or accept the recommendation? Defer too readily and…

• 22 April 2026

  A reckoning with complexity

  Do you take the flight to close the deal, knowing your company has a net-zero pledge? The carbon is real. So is the relationship that won't form over a Zoom call. Do you recommend the…

• 20 November 2025

  Facilitating insights, not delivering them

  The thing is: Researchers aren't the decision makers. We learn from users and carry that information to the people who make decisions. But traditional delivery often fails. Research repos…

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Built

• German Worksheets

  A1 and A2 worksheets, a 30-lesson grammar course, and repair sheets that rebuild whatever I got wrong. Built because I am learning German and the material I could find drilled vocabulary instead of grammar.

  2026   german · web · in use daily

• Artdrop

  You meet a painting, write a note, and it goes to a stranger. No accounts, no feed, no way to know who read it.

  2026   web · strangers

• Instapsalm

  A field guide to presence: 76 one-minute reflections across 8 paths, built to browse, search, and bookmark rather than binge.

  2026   web · reflection

• Research De-identifier

  Drop in an interview transcript and it finds the names, emails and places and swaps them for pseudonyms that stay consistent, so the transcript is still readable afterwards. Everything happens in the browser. I built it because the alternative was pasting people's words into someone else's server.

  2026   research · web · nothing leaves the page

• Clicked Through

  I went looking for why technical people click past security warnings and found that mostly they can't obey them — the warning asks for something the situation cannot give. The corpus, the sampling log and every screening decision are published alongside it.

  2026   research · netnography

• Field Kit

  An Android launcher that bundles the three inner-work games below into one offline app.

  2026   android · capacitor

• The Nine Embraces

  An ego-development field journal shaped as a game. Nine stages, each one something to practise rather than achieve.

  2026   game · inner work

• Lucid Creator

  The same engine pointed at work and money instead of character.

  2026   game · career

• Two Skies

  A weather report for two people. My partner and I each log an inner forecast; the app only shows the pair.

  2026   web · couples

Three more exist but are not on the web yet — Outlast, a catalogue of objects built to last; Job Radar, which watches 31 companies for German UXR postings; and a departure board for Bangalore buses

Now

• Learning German, somewhere between A2 and B2.
• Reading about how transit systems fail in cities that never had a timetable.
• Building a departure board for Bangalore buses.
• Trying to move to Germany by 2027.

Elsewhere