The Long Form
Writings
Essays by @1st_bapatist · Published when the idea outgrows a blog post
Bapatism Writings is the long-form essay collection of the site. It is where Sharad Bapat goes beyond the doctrine and writes in full about Bapatism, founder life, AI, unstructured data, and the logic underneath the joke.
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Issue No. 1 · Theology & Commerce
Why I Founded a Religion Before a Company (and Which One Is Going Better)
An honest accounting of two ventures: one requiring a domain name and a pun, the other requiring twenty years of enterprise suffering. Both are ongoing. One has better margins.
Issue No. 2 · Data & Doctrine · Coming Eventually
The Misc Folder as Original Sin: A Theological and Technical Analysis
Every organisation has a folder called Misc. Nobody created it. Nobody owns it. It contains everything important. This is not a storage problem. It is a civilisational one.
Issue No. 3 · Career · Coming Eventually
One Month at Accenture: A Memoir
February 2010. Pune. One month. Listed faithfully on the CV to this day. A complete account of what happened and why it is still there.
Issue No. 4 · Theology · Coming Eventually
The Atheist’s Guide to Running a Religion: Lessons from Year One of Bapatism
What I learned from founding a religion I do not believe in, written by someone who believes very strongly in the power of a good pun and a well-registered domain.