Co-founder & COO, MedGrid

AaronShrestha

The Architect

  1. Travel my path, Nepal to Miami
  2. Pick one piece at every stop
  3. Leave with a structure that’s yours

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The Architect

I am fascinated by the architecture of reality.

Not just the physical structures we build, but the invisible ones: the systems governing businesses, societies, human behavior, relationships, technology, and the way we perceive ourselves.

I want to understand how things work beneath the surface. Why do certain systems succeed while others fail? What makes people think, behave, and connect the way they do? Which limitations are fundamental, and which exist simply because nobody has questioned them?

My approach is to observe, deconstruct, understand, and rebuild. Entrepreneurship is one expression of that philosophy. So are creativity, technology, psychology, and the pursuit of knowledge.

I don’t believe curiosity should have boundaries, or that an individual should be confined to a single discipline or identity. I am interested in the intersection of things.

I want to build businesses, explore ideas, challenge conventional thinking, create experiences, and continuously expand my understanding of what is possible.

But perhaps the most important structure I will ever work on is myself. Because before attempting to reshape the world, I believe in understanding the mind through which I experience it.

Trajectory

13Countries
and counting

“I want to know everything, and know how to do everything.”

  1. T-01

    Nepal

    Where it started.

  2. T-02

    Chicago

    Moved here at eight. Grew up, went to school.

  3. T-03

    Illinois

    University of Illinois System.

  4. T-04

    Spain

    Taught English after college.

  5. T-05

    Miami

    Co-founded MedGrid.

Note —I am not here simply to follow the blueprint. I want to understand who designed it, why it exists, and what happens when we dare to create a different one.
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Operating philosophy

  1. P-01

    Observe

    Understand the world before attempting to change it.

  2. P-02

    Deconstruct

    Break complicated systems into their fundamental components.

  3. P-03

    Question

    Challenge assumptions, including your own.

  4. P-04

    Reimagine

    See possibilities beyond existing structures.

  5. P-05

    Construct

    Turn ideas into something tangible.

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The Blueprint

An evolving collection of thoughts, discoveries, frameworks, experiments and philosophies — a record of how my thinking changes over time.

B-01In draft

The Architecture of Human Behavior

The hidden structures that decide what we do — and why.

B-02In draft

The Psychology of Identity

Who we believe we are, and how that belief is built.

B-03Forthcoming

Systems Thinking and Entrepreneurship

Businesses as systems: inputs, loops, leverage, failure points.

B-04Forthcoming

Perception and Reality

Where the world ends and the lens we see it through begins.

B-05Forthcoming

Technology and Human Potential

What our tools are turning us into.

B-06Forthcoming

The Art of Reinvention

Tearing down a structure you built — and designing the next one.

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Constructions