u/Curious_Observator

I'm a researcher based in Hyderabad, and I've been sitting on this idea for a while. Wanted to put it out here and get genuine feedback before I actually do it.

The idea is simple — bring one working expert into a café with 25-30 curious people and have a completely open, unscripted conversation for about 90 minutes. No slides, no lecture, no agenda. Just questions — the ones you were always too embarrassed to ask in a classroom or never had access to someone who could answer properly.

The first session would be astrophysics. Subsequent ones, I'm thinking cognitive science, behavioural economics, maybe linguistics. Experts would be active researchers, not retired professors doing a favour.

Weekends, somewhere in the Jubilee Hills/Madhapur belt. (open to other suggestions)

Called it Na.iti — from the Sanskrit Neti Neti, the idea that you arrive at truth by eliminating what it isn't. Felt right for a format built entirely around questions.

Honest question — would you actually show up to something like this? And what would keep you from showing up?

I am an astrophysics post-grad and have been doing quant research for ~1year ish. I have done a paper and have a couple of strats, one is a market-neutral pairs trading strat. I have experience with backtesting, Monte-Carlo simulations, Bayesian Analysis, and Model Fitting.

The HRs approach is kind of a black hole, they themselves call and talk and setup a meeting and bounce future calls, I dont get why would you call in the first place if you were not interested.

Please let me know if I should be doing anything better.