---
title: Start guide
description: The 60-second scan.
section: meta
tags: [meta, start-here]
genre: reference
stability: developing
lastUpdated: 2026-04-18
url: https://fardiniqbal.com/docs/start-guide
---


## In one sentence [#in-one-sentence]

A map of what I'm building, training at, reading, and writing about.

## In one paragraph [#in-one-paragraph]

Software is one of several things I care about — alongside jiu-jitsu,
philosophy, writing, and the people in my life. This site documents all of
it: projects shipped, books in progress, ideas half-formed, training logs.
The work is here, but so is the rest.

## Domains [#domains]

* **[Craft](/docs/craft)** — Twelve deployed apps. Sixty-one thousand dollars
  of enterprise software replaced for a therapy agency. Development is a
  superpower, not an identity.
* **[Body](/docs/body)** — Jiu-jitsu as practice. Lifting as substrate. The
  domain where intention used to meet execution most cleanly — currently
  rebuilding.
* **[Mind](/docs/mind)** — What I'm reading and thinking about. Nietzsche,
  Plato, Big History. Breadth-first — connection over depth.
* **[Garden](/docs/garden)** — Writing, essays, half-finished ideas. The
  things I'm working out in public.

## Read next [#read-next]

* [About](/docs/about) — bio, experience, education.
* [Interview](/docs/mind/interview) — fifty unscripted questions and answers.
* [Install](/docs/install) — how to hire, collaborate, mentor, or advise.
* [Contact](/docs/vault/reference/contact) — email, GitHub, LinkedIn.