Business foundations
B.Com from Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi; MBA from JBIMS. A foundation for studying organisations, markets, people and decision-making.
FORMAL EDUCATION A WORK IN PROGRESS, BY DESIGN
Career,
not a cage.
What if a career were less like a ladder and more like a living ecosystem? This is a map of work done, questions pursued, and futures worth testing—not a prediction, not a pitch deck, and certainly not a final identity.
SAHIL TAYALRESEARCH × BUSINESS × CREATIONSCROLL TO EXPLORE ↓
01 / THE THESIS
“A person can have more than one serious interest without needing to turn every interest into a job.”
The organising question here is not “What should I become?” but “What can I contribute, learn, and sustain?” Careers are shaped by capabilities, constraints, relationships, health, luck, institutions, and choice. No single title captures all of that.
02 / THE RECEIPTSWhat exists
What exists
outside the imagination.
Selected experiences and artifacts. These are signals of work undertaken—not claims of universal expertise or future success.
Inside organisations
Experience across research, HR-related consulting and corporate environments, including EY. Useful exposure to how institutions operate—and how people experience them.
WORK EXPERIENCEIdentity–Action Gap
An independently developed framework asking why intentions and identities do not always translate into behaviour. A research direction to test, not an established scientific result.
RESEARCH IN PROGRESSDigital experiments
Essays, websites and interactive experiences built through human–AI collaboration. Evidence of iterative creative production; reach and lasting impact remain to be evaluated.
PUBLIC ARTIFACTSHouse of Venus
Explorations in fragrance, emotional expression, product design and small-scale customer work. Craft and experimentation before grand claims about scale.
EARLY-STAGE PRACTICEFamily business
Retail provides a grounded view of customers, operations, incentives and everyday economics—a different kind of classroom from the boardroom.
LIVED EXPERIENCE03 / THE INTERSECTIONSThe interesting work
The interesting work
happens between fields.
BEHAVIOUR × EVERYTHING
How do identity, motivation, friction, incentives and environment shape what people actually do? A question connecting research, work, products and everyday life.
04 / POSSIBLE FUTURESNot a forecast.
Not a forecast.
A possibility space.
Select a direction. Each path has an attraction, an evidence base and a hard question. They can overlap; none is guaranteed.
PATH 01 / AN OPEN HYPOTHESIS
The independent creator
Build a body of thoughtful work across writing, interactive media and public experiments.
WHAT SUPPORTS IT
A growing collection of published writing and digital artifacts.
WHAT REMAINS UNPROVEN
Whether the work finds sustained audiences and remains enjoyable over time.
No numerical odds are offered: meaningful probabilities would require evidence we do not have. Capacity during a productive period is not the same as sustainable output over years.
05 / A DIFFERENT SCORECARDSuccess is
Success is
more than status.
Good work matters. So do freedom, health, relationships, curiosity, financial resilience, and the ability to enjoy an ordinary Tuesday. No single metric should swallow the rest.
CRAFTCONTRIBUTIONAUTONOMYRELATIONSHIPSWELL-BEINGPLAY
06 / GO FURTHER
Follow the threads.
Selected doors into the wider body of work and the ideas that inform this page.
The Sahilverse home ↗Explore published projects ↗APA: Motivation ↗Capability approach ↗Self-determination theory ↗Human capital: research perspective ↗
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07 / AN OPEN ENDINGStill becoming.
Still becoming.
Still accountable to reality.
Curiosity opens doors. Evidence tells us which ones lead somewhere. A life can contain both ambition and contentment.