Stories and ideas about the systems that shape us.

Fiction, essays and conversations about memory, technology, power, organisations and human choice.

I write across two worlds: fiction that places people inside difficult choices, and essays drawn from technology, banking, transformation and the institutions that quietly influence modern life.

Recent writing

Selected writing on technology, human behaviour and the systems that shape everyday choices.


Stories shaped by a life spent observing systems.

TE Aravind is an Indian author based in Singapore. More than two decades across banking, data, finance, tax and transformation have given him a close view of how systems, incentives and technology influence people and organisations.

His fiction explores the same questions through memory, identity, ambition, relationships and power. His blogs and essays bring those questions back into the real world of AI, transformation, banking and decision-making.

The professional world explains how systems are built. Fiction asks what those systems do to people.

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