What does it mean to live a satisfying life?

Kunal Gupta

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I experiment with life
and share what I find.

I write books, build things with AI, and try to figure out what it actually means to live well. Based in Lisbon.

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Kunal Gupta

The short version.

I started a tech company out of university and ran it for fifteen years. I've written four books. I moved to Lisbon on three days' notice. Somewhere in the middle of all that, the questions got more interesting than the answers.

Now I live here with my wife, writing every week, building things with AI, and still trying to figure out what a satisfying life actually looks like. I don't have it solved. But the experiments keep going.

Reflections

Two series. Two lenses. One ongoing inquiry.

Books

Each one started as a question that wouldn't leave me alone.

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Builder, seeker,
fellow traveler.

The inner and outer journeys happened at the same time. I was meditating in boardrooms while scaling across thirty countries. The questioning didn't start after I made it. It started during.

After fifteen years, I ran fifteen experiments on my own life. Sold my possessions. Moved to Portugal on three days' notice. Wrote four books across four genres.

Then I did what people who say they've changed always do. I rebuilt the same machine in a new city. Status, conquest, achievement. Emptiness the next morning. The relapse proved the inquiry was real.

Now I build with AI, write about what I'm finding, and give it away. The through-line is one question: what does it mean to live a satisfying life?

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