HiI'm Anvi — a  learner.

Learning in private.Building in private.Becoming, in public.

A CS & AI/ML student. This isn't a blog or a personal brand — it's a private portfolio of self-reflection. The real work happens quietly; only what's honest and real ever makes it here.

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Anvi Sharma

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Transformers & attention

Kolkata, India
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Why the Real Work Stays Private

The wonderful things happen where no one is watching — the public only meets the result.

Everyone tells you to share your process. I don't buy it. The work that changes you happens in private; the public only cares about — and only ever sees — the result.

March 15, 2025Read article

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What Books Actually Taught Me About Reading Books

For most of my early reading life, I finished books and immediately forgot them. Then I figured out why.

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The System I Built for Deep Work as a Student

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What It's Like to Study AI/ML at 18

People hear 'AI' and they picture magic. What they don't picture is debugging matrix dimensions at midnight while questioning all your life choices.

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Jun 24, 2026
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Why some people seem to get exponentially better at things over time while others plateau. What's the actual mechanism? Is it the quality of feedback loops? Identity? I don't have an answer yet.

Reading

Deep Work by Cal Newport, The Pragmatic Programmer (slowly), and rereading The Courage to Be Disliked for the third time.

Building

This platform. And a small side project experimenting with AI-assisted note-taking that I'll write about when it's less broken.

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18-year-old CS & AI/ML student. I do the deep work in private and let the results speak for themselves — no noise, just outcomes.

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Words that stayed

Lines I keep returning to

The first draft of anything is sh*t.

— Ernest Hemingway

Permission to begin badly. The most freeing sentence I've encountered as someone who writes.

The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.

— Marcus Aurelius

I return to this every time I'm frustrated. The obstacle isn't interrupting the path — it is the path.

You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.

— James Clear, Atomic Habits

This reframed ambition for me. The question is never 'what do I want?' but 'what systems am I willing to build and maintain?'