About Ameya Agrawal
I grew up in Bhusawal — a small town in Maharashtra. I’m an engineer by training, a social entrepreneur by conviction, and a writer because some ideas need to be said out loud.
This blog is where I think in public about the things I care most about: ambition, AI, meaning, and the psychological cost of living in a world that is optimising faster than we can keep up with.
What I Do
I currently work in strategy at MIT World Peace University — one of India’s most forward-thinking institutions — at the intersection of education, leadership, and institutional impact.
Alongside that, I write. On this blog, on Substack, and occasionally in places like Forbes. I write about the mind, about machines, and about what it means to live meaningfully when both are changing faster than we have frameworks to understand.
A Few Things About Me
- Gold Medalist, MBA — IIM Kozhikode (2024)
- Author — A Leap Within, published at age 21 (National Record)
- Strategy — MIT World Peace University (MIT WPU GŌA)
- Founder — SkillSlate Foundation: 25,000+ people trained across 100+ organisations in 4 countries
- Former CEO — Mahatma Gandhi Seva Sangh (MGSS): disability rehabilitation across Maharashtra; 1,00,000+ lives impacted
- Two Presidential National Awards — Government of India
- Published in — Forbes, Business Standard, The Print
- Harvard Graduate School of Education — admitted; chose to stay in India
Why I Write
Most personal development content tells you to do more, achieve more, and optimise every corner of your life. I’ve lived inside high-achievement culture long enough to know what it does to people — brilliant, driven people who are doing everything right and still feel like something is missing.
So I ask a harder question: at what cost?
This blog exists to bring real psychological depth to conversations about ambition, growth, and what we owe ourselves. Not another checklist. Not a morning routine. Just honest thinking about what it means to grow in a way that is sustainable and genuinely human.
On AI
I’m an AI enthusiast — but a thoughtful one. The tools we’re building are extraordinary. They’re also doing something quietly profound to human agency, identity, and the way we derive meaning. I don’t think we’ve fully reckoned with that yet.
This blog is, in part, my attempt to reckon with it in public. For a longer, more exploratory version of that conversation, I write on Substack: Mind, Machine & Meaning.
Let’s Talk
If something here resonates — or if you want to push back on something I’ve written — I’d genuinely love to hear from you. Send me a message →