My name is Rishit Vora. I’m a software engineer at a cloud-security company in Bengaluru, India. I've previously worked as a founding engineer at a YC startup, and then some more at various others.

Who are you, anyway? In the current slice of spacetime, I enjoy reading sci-fi and rational fiction, and I'm currently learning to play the keyboard. My idea of relaxation is playing Souls-like games (Elden Ring ftw) or immersing in a movie. I also have a particular fondness for starting things—learning subjects from scratch (enjoying this microeconomics course), diving into new projects (writing a puny auto-grad engine in pure python), picking up an instrument, or starting a blog. Although, persistence isn't second nature to me yet – but I’m working on it!

What is this sixeleven thing? The name is a playful combination of Gödel's incompleteness theorems—VI & XI. It captures my fascination with the inherent limitations of systems (& knowledge); and somewhat reflects the epistemic status of my ideas.

You can reach out at rishitv@proton.me. PGP may be broken, but here's my key (fingerprint: 7f9b018cddfeb9647910d0839187b651b1589b18):

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The website design & feel is molded by gwern.net, lesswrong.com, and quantamagazine.org. The serif font is Source Serif, sans is typefaced with Inter, and the monospace is a custom font built with Iosevka, customized on JetBrains Mono & ZedPlex Mono.

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