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About Ascendance.

Updated 2026-05-30

Ascendance is a one-person publication built on a simple idea: the things worth having, a stronger body, a clearer mind, a better-read portfolio, only compound when you keep climbing. Progress is slow, rarely linear, and worth it anyway. The name is the whole editorial stance in one word.

This site spans seven niches because the person writing it is genuinely interested in seven things, and pretending otherwise would be its own kind of dishonesty. The connective tissue is a method, not a topic: read carefully, report effect sizes rather than vibes, stay curious, hold conclusions loosely.

The author

A dual-degree generalist — a bachelor's in business and a master's in computer applications — who also works as an ACE-Certified Health Coach. That combination explains the site: the business training shows up in how content and metrics are treated, the computer-applications background in why everything here is hand-built, and the coaching certification in the rigor behind the health writing and tools.

ACE-Certified Health Coach B.B.A. — Business M.C.A. — Computer Applications

The seven niches

Climb them as a single ascent from the home page, or jump straight in:

Niche	What lives there
▲ Health	Research-paper reviews and coaching commentary, grounded in an ACE framework.
◆ Books	Marginalia proper — what the reading left behind.
◇ Philosophy	The absurd, the finite, and the practical business of living with both.
◈ Data & Metrics	Reading numbers honestly. Effect sizes, baselines, and what dashboards hide.
● Phones	The pocket object as tool, habit, and philosophical commitment.
■ Content	Notes on making things, and the half-life of what you publish.
₹ Markets	Mental models from markets. Capital, consolidation, competitive dynamics, with India in view.

Editorial stance

Be aggressive about updating beliefs from data. Be conservative about acting on a single study. Treat the absurd as a starting condition, not a problem to be solved.

Health posts cite primary sources and report effect sizes, not just p-values. Conflicts of interest get flagged where they can be found. None of this is medical advice — when something written here contradicts your physician, your physician wins.

How it's built

Hand-written HTML, one CSS file, and vanilla JavaScript on the front end; a small PHP and MySQL backend behind it. No heavyweight framework, no build step. The ascent index on the home page is plain HTML; the motion is hand-written CSS and JavaScript; the calculators run entirely in your browser. Posts are written and edited through a private admin panel and served from the database. You can read every line.