Nitthin's Musings

Insurance for Engineers, Part 1

Why a $7T industry has no efficiency conversation

May 23 • Nitthin Chandran Nair

The missing routing layer for satellite IoT

Every satellite constellation is a walled garden. Industrial IoT needs a Twilio.

May 22 • Nitthin Chandran Nair

March 2026

IUMI just published the case against its own architecture

Marine insurance's global trade body spent 39 pages documenting why claims-based models are losing. They didn't frame it that way. I will.

Mar 18 • Nitthin Chandran Nair

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Insurance doesn’t have a trust problem. It has a bandwidth problem.

Why risk transfer keeps failing, and what information theory says about fixing it.

Mar 17 • Nitthin Chandran Nair

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"Here be dragons", the flags I'm planting and more.

Operating principles from a decade of building, breaking, and rebuilding in India. This is intended to be a living manifesto. Version 1.0. It will…

Mar 1 • Nitthin Chandran Nair

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February 2026

The symmetry beneath it all

Part 7 of "The Inference Universe": Why the laws of physics look like inference, and what's actually real

Feb 25 • Nitthin Chandran Nair

The Bandwidth of Reality

Part 6 of "The Inference Universe": Why some channels are wide, some narrow, and what happens when we widen them

Feb 24 • Nitthin Chandran Nair

The Future of Inference

Part 5 of "The Inference Universe": What happens when we build inference machines that outrun us?

Feb 13 • Nitthin Chandran Nair

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The Inferring Self

Part 4 of "The Inference Universe" : You are not a thing that thinks. You are the "thinking" itself, the computation running on meat, for a little…

Feb 12 • Nitthin Chandran Nair

Markets as Inference Engines

Part 3 of "The Inference Universe" : Prices are posteriors, arbitrage is error correction, and money is the universe's most successful protocol

Feb 2 • Nitthin Chandran Nair

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January 2026

The Social Inference Machine

Part 2 of “The Inference Universe”. Why cultures are compression algorithms, revolutions are phase transitions, and we are each other’s priors

Jan 14 • Nitthin Chandran Nair

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The Physics of Inference

How atoms gossip, stars listen, and reality computes itself.

Jan 9 • Nitthin Chandran Nair

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