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Arun Venkatesan
I'm a product designer, engineer, photographer, and writer. Currently, I'm the founding product designer at Miter. Formerly, I was co-founder and product designer at Carrot Fertility. I'm an alumnus of Columbia University and the South Park Commons. On weekends, I write this blog and newsletter, travel with my wife and kids, run and bike and take photographs.
Latest Posts
Spend enough time with Love Hultén's work and you start to feel like you're mapping an alternate world — one built from wood, electronics, and a very particular kind of whimsy.
Japan's power grid has a fracture running through it that no one has ever fully repaired. East and west run on different frequencies.
Dali in Yunnan may be the best place I've ever visited — better than the Mediterranean or Southeast Asia. Here's why almost no one in the Western world knows it exists.
Apple and Porsche both figured out the same secret that the cheapest product in the lineup can be the most exciting. It just takes a little intention.
I fell in love with a camera Leica discontinued. Four years later, it's still in my bag — and nothing has come close to replacing it.
My process of using AI to enhance my writing without giving up control.
Kunming was the best first impression of Yunnan with its mild weather, delicious food, and rich history.
A look at the without thought workshop catalogs by Naoto Fukasawa and how observation is so important to design.
Shanghai is my home base in China — and this time, I finally figured out why. A few days, a handful of places, and a tension I didn't expect to find running through all of them.
A pre-dawn run through Lijiang's old town, and the gear, principles, and philosophy behind how I train.
How I turned four years of incremental improvements into something focused and coherent.
After a week in Kanazawa, we returned to Tokyo, the city in Japan I know best.
How the actions of the ruling clan in Kanazawa centuries ago lead to it surviving WWII.
Why did a mid-sized city on the Sea of Japan become a place where contemporary culture flourishes alongside five centuries of tradition?
A Ferrari designer's train delivered us to a city where Pritzker Prize architecture coexists with centuries-old samurai districts. We had no idea what we were in for.