The degree that taught me to think in systems

In short: I studied a BBA in Transportation Management at NRTI, now Gati Shakti Vishwavidyalaya. It led me to a Station Master job at Indian Railways, and the systems thinking it taught me is what I use as a Product Manager at PhysicsWallah today.

Choosing an unusual degree

I picked a BBA in Transportation Management at NRTI, the National Rail and Transportation Institute, which later became Gati Shakti Vishwavidyalaya (GSV).

Learning how big systems move

Transportation is the study of networks under pressure: how people and goods move at scale, where things break, and how operations, money and policy pull against each other. Without realising it, I was learning the vocabulary of product.

Building on the side

I couldn't just sit in class. In those years I started ReaderSpace, my first startup, and joined MathonGo as an early Product & Growth member.

Where the road went

The degree took me exactly where it promised: a job as Station Master on Indian Railways' Dedicated Freight Corridor. Later I turned down an IIM MBA offer and a Mesa School PGP offer to keep building, and became a Product Manager at PhysicsWallah.

What stayed with me

Every product is a transport network for something: attention, answers, trust. GSV taught me to look at the whole network before touching any single part.

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