Hi, I’mGurtej Gill.
I write about what I’m learning, from how we work to what it takes to live a good life. Day to day, I lead AI Operations & Adoption at Canary Technologies.
Ideas I’m exploring.
Featured essay / May 2026
How to build an AI
that compounds.
The memory, skills, and tools that let an AI carry what it learns into the next conversation.
Read the essay
The most important habit I’ve ever built
Five years of tracking daily habits, and the one thing I learned from it.
Speed vs. clarity
What a decade in early-stage companies taught me about moving quickly.
Intentions 2015
A decade of setting intentions, and seeing where they lead.
02 / Who I am
A little more about me.
I’m a Palm Springs native with Punjabi roots, a decade into building early-stage technology companies and a community I love in San Francisco.
I’m happiest with the people I love, making music, or on a tennis court. I also love a poker table, a chessboard, and a good bottle of wine. Bringing people together is a big part of what I enjoy.
A meditation practice quietly shapes how I work and what I care about. I try to live intentionally, with a clear sense of what matters and room for that to change as life does.
Writing is how I think things through, and it keeps returning to the same question of how to live well. Most of my working life has been at early-stage companies, and the rest of that story is on LinkedIn .
An earlier project · 2019–2022
The Autonomous Vehicles Podcast
I hosted 30 conversations with founders and investors working on self-driving technology. We explored artificial intelligence, simulation, sensors, and the business of getting autonomous vehicles onto the road.
03 / The soundtrack
A few things
on repeat.
I love finding the right music for a moment. Here are a few playlists that I curate for myself and others.