About
I'm Anish Wagle. I film the things I'm trying to get good at, and this is where the results are kept — books finished, chords learned, months lifted, districts crossed off. A count only moves after the video is out, so everything you see here has already happened.
Hi, I'm Anish
I live in Nepal and run Wagle Universal Solutions Pvt. Ltd., which is also the company that builds and hosts this site. Prayogsala isn't the company's work, though. It's the personal half: a camera, whatever I'm currently bad at, and a public record of getting less bad at it.
Prayogsala is the Nepali word for laboratory. It began as the name for one experiment and stuck, because that turned out to be the shape of all of it — try the thing where people can see, film it, write down what actually happened, keep the number.
The honest reason for keeping score is that I like watching the numbers move. The useful reason is that a number you have to publish is much harder to lie to yourself about.
Five benches, five different units
A book is a book whether or not I filmed it, and a month of training is a set of measurements whether or not anyone watched. So each section counts the thing that genuinely belongs to it, and each one has its own rule about what is allowed to count.
- 1book finished
Books
Finished books only. There is no currently-reading shelf, because a book I am halfway through says nothing about me yet.
- 2chords learned
Guitar
Every chord is drawn as a real fretboard and lit only once my hands can actually play it. Under them sits the course itself, module by module, in the order I am taking it.
- 1month logged
Workout
One entry a month, the same measurements every time. A month counts when it has been measured. Turning up is easy to remember generously; a tape measure is not.
- 0on the bench
Experiments
Long things made of small videos, none of which finish in a week. Each one gets a ladder, and a rung lights only once it has actually been reached, so the plan is visible without any of it being assumed.
- 0/77districts
Travel
All seventy-seven districts are drawn from the moment the map loads, the empty ones included. Nepal has seventy-seven districts whether or not I ever reach them, so an empty one promises nothing — which is why this is the section that can show you what hasn't happened yet.
How a post gets here
Same three steps every time, in this order.
It gets filmed
Everything here starts as a video on the channel. If I didn't film it, it doesn't appear — which is a slower rule than I would sometimes like, and the reason the counts are worth anything.
It gets written up
The post is the part the video can't do: the links, the exact numbers, the thing I got wrong, and a version you can read in a minute instead of watching for fifteen.
The count moves
Publishing is what fills in a district, lights a chord, or adds a book to the shelf. A draft changes nothing, so nothing here is ahead of itself.
Follow along
A short email whenever something new lands here. It goes out the same day the video does, and the unsubscribe link works.
Prayogsala is operated by Wagle Universal Solutions. The site runs on Next.js and Vercel with Supabase behind it, and the channel figures on the homepage are read live from YouTube rather than typed in by me.