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I'm Ronit. These are the values I put into everything I build — and the goal all of it points at.

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File · What I Believe

Sustainable
innovation
is what I truly value.

MyGoal.txt
Same words as the front pageOn purposeHeld to it daily

I believe in building — better hardware, smarter systems, tools that solve real inefficiencies — but that comes with responsibility: innovation shouldn't come at the environment's expense.

I believe in a circular economy — reusing and repairing what we already have, because what one person throws away is often exactly what someone else needs. It is our duty not to waste water, electricity, food, and materials.

— Ronit Sharma · written 2026

Folder · Receipts

Talk is cheap.
Here's what I've done.

Receipts
6 items1,545 lbs rescued0 lbs in Trash2024–26
e-waste.loaddiverted from landfill
1,545lbs
Collected across five towns with my nonprofit — every pound hand-sorted and triaged on folding tables. None of it went to a landfill.
devices.reclaimedwiped · tested · rehomed
442devices
Donated electronics wiped and tested at our e-waste drives. The working ones go back out to people who need them; the rest become repair stock.
bench.repairsscreens · batteries · ports
120+fixed
Phones and laptops fixed at my bench. Every repair is one less replacement that has to be manufactured.
48v-dc.patentpatent-pending
48Vpending
My patent-pending filing goes after the wall-adapter problem: dozens of lossy AC-to-DC conversions in every home, replaced with one efficient DC backbone.
openh2o.methodwater-quality testing
Openpublished
A testing methodology I wrote up and published openly, so anyone can replicate it for free — no lab, no license, no paywall.
workshops.liveTech Awareness Association
5towns
Workshops for seniors and repair clubs for students — tech literacy and repair skills, taught in person, session after session.
System Rule · Cannot Be Overridden

If you commit,
you give

Every. Time.

I believe strongly that if you commit to something, you put in your full effort, all the time — especially when other people are involved. A team, a nonprofit, a customer: the moment someone depends on your work, half-effort stops being a personal choice and starts being a broken promise.

Of everything on this page, this is the most important one. It's the value underneath all the others.
There is no Cancel button.
Why this page looks like 1984

Apple & Steve Jobs
showed me it's possible.

About This Influence
The Macintosh 512K Apple Computer · 1984 · the machine this page dresses like
The lesson
Technology is for people — the Mac invited everyone in, not just engineers.
The standard
"Insanely great" — which is just another name for my 100% rule.
The proof
A founder's values, built into a company, can outlive the founder.
The reminder
It started with two people in a garage — being young isn't a blocker.

Steve Jobs is the biggest influence on how I think about all of this. Not because of the money — because he proved the exact thing I'm betting my plans on: that a company can be a set of values operating at scale. Apple was built to make technology that ordinary people could actually use, and it kept doing that after he was gone, because the belief was baked into the company itself and not just the man.

That's why this page is dressed as a Macintosh. It isn't nostalgia — it's a blueprint. Build something insanely great, put your values inside the machine, and it keeps working without you.

"Stay hungry. Stay foolish."
Steve Jobs, Stanford commencement, 2005 — taped above my bench
Roadmap · The Long Game
One person is limited.
I want to help people and the environment at a large scale — and no matter how much e-waste I sort with my own hands, one person's hands only reach so far.
An employee is limited too.
If I work for someone else's company, how much I can help is capped by that company's priorities, not mine. The mission would answer to someone else.

So I'm going to
start a company.

NextChapter.plan
Drafted 2026Status: preparing

A company that embodies everything on this page: sustainable innovation, technology that helps people and the environment, and — this part matters — one that benefits people and the planet through what it does every day, not through checks I write when I'm old with a pile of money. The impact is the product, not the retirement plan.

I want to build my own beliefs into the company itself, so that it keeps carrying out the mission for as long as it exists — hopefully longer than me. If the values live in the structure, the mission doesn't depend on any one person. Including me.

  • Sustainable innovation, by default
  • Technology for people + planet
  • Impact through the work itself, starting day one
  • Built to outlast its founder
Folder · Training / 7 items

Right now, I'm loading
everything I can learn.

So that when it's time, I can find the idea that changes the world — and actually build it. Every item in this folder is training for the next chapter:

Training
7 itemsAll feeding the same goal
AI.book
Working through Welch Labs' illustrated AI book — real intuition for how the models work, not just how to use them.
48VDC.house
My patent-pending direct-current home power design — inventing, filing, and defending an idea end to end.
Code+CAD
Java for FRC, web for this site, Onshape for everything with edges. The making-things toolkit.
FRC.467
Real engineering under real deadlines — design, build, program, compete, repeat.
WPI.research
University lab research starting this fall — learning how rigorous work actually gets done.
AP.courses
The fundamentals, taken seriously — math and science deep enough to build on.
TAA.lead
My nonprofit is already a small version of the goal — helping people and the environment today, and teaching me to lead an organization built to grow exponentially. The dress rehearsal for the next chapter. Run at 100%.
Application · Seed.fund

Why I trade:
not for the money itself.

Seed.fund

Researching companies taught me something bigger than any single trade: companies do well when they have capital and resources. Ideas alone don't scale — funded ideas do.

So my stock research runs alongside everything else I'm learning, with one purpose: build the capital to jump-start my company myself, before I ever have to reach for outside funding. The less the mission owes to other people's money at the start, the more of it stays mine to protect.

Last file on the disk

Everything I do
points at the
same goal.

The nonprofit, the patent, the robots, the research, the trading, the AP homework — none of it is separate. It all leads to the same purpose: starting a company for sustainable innovation, building something that advances technology while helping people and the environment in the process. Those are the values I put into everything — at 100%, every time.

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