salman.io

👋🏽 Hi! I’m Salman Ansari

I live my life wearing different hats. These days, I toggle between my roles as a senior full-stack software engineer, author, illustrator, essayist, online course creator, and public speaker. I’ve also been a startup founder & CTO, DJ, and head instructor at a coding bootcamp.

📖 Book: Wandering Spirits

I wrote and illustrated a book of modern fables. Inspired by books like The Little Prince, it’s filled with tales that feed the soul, tug the heart and spark the mind. It’s available worldwide on Amazon and all major book retailers.

📝 Essays

• The Polymath Playbook — My most popular essay, in which I share my way of life—embracing my inner polymath, and exploring multiple pursuits rather than specializing in a single path.
• Listen to Yourself — Build self-awareness & discover your hidden truth.
• The Courage to be Disliked — How to stop worrying about what other people think.
• Friends over Followers — The true power of the internet is the friends you make along the way.

Visit my blog for more essays ->

• Writing Guide — Collection of lessons learned from years of writing online.
• Bookshelf — Selections of my favorite books of all time.

Visit my digital garden for more notes.

🦊 Newsletter

I write the Quick Brown Fox newsletter: A weekly newsletter with essays, comics and fables on creativity, self-awareness, and playful productivity. You can subscribe below, or browse the archives to view all the past editions.

This website is a digital garden for my writing—essays, notes, newsletters and more. Writing online has changed my life for the better in so many ways. It has opened new doors, helped me build self-awareness, and fostered new friendships. Most of all, it gives me a channel to discover and express my truest self. If you’re curious to explore the power of writing, be sure to check out my free writing guide.

If you have questions or just want to chat sometime, feel free to get in touch—I’d love to hear from you. Thanks for stopping by!