Of the people who have opinions on my spending habits, many would claim that I am a cheapskate. There is great irony here, because I actually quite enjoy spending money. I look for pristine opportunities to spend money. When I spend money well, I feel quite satisfied.
I often hear my wife exclaim, “Oh, how wonderful would it be to run my own little bookstore once I retire!” I frown. A small, local business.
I have a confession. I am actually a DJ. And this is my story.
My wife and I have decided to write more. Or rather, I have been encouraging her to write more, and make it a group activity. I succesfully convinced her to set a 20 min timer, and keep writing till the timer goes off. She is still writing, the 20 minute timer went off a while back. I think my scheme succeeded. I also wrote a few stray thoughts of my own to accompany her in this writing exercise. The following are the thoughts, unedited.
Last night, I got a pick-up order of Dan Dan noodles, and some Mapo Fish with Crispy Tofu from my favorite Sichuanese place. Wa Jeal, on the Upper East is really good. My wife and I cozied up on the sofa (or the couch, as the yanks say) to set up for movie night. Tonight, we were watching Alpha Go.
A mildly amusing framework to predict success, or justify success.
Death, taxes and my need to be pretentious on the internet.
The art of taming micro-organisms for health and debauchery.
It is indeed true that if you eat enough ghee every day, your customer acquisition cost reduces.
A retrospective, told in multiple parts.
Is physical writing the way forward for me?
Or how to have a good time on the internet.
A venn diagram didn’t help.
Despite my pudgy fingers.
A snapshot of my opinions, so I can laugh at them in 1 year.
If programmers had a credit rating for their tech debt, they’d all be junk bonds.
Coastal karnataka, and the curse of networking.
Mountains, semaphores and ideas.
Toddy, tools and end sems.
I will tell you what’s up.
You shouldn’t be reading the news. But if you really have to, this is how to do it.
My loops are all messed up.
I got vaccinated. Then I got covid. Then I got dengue.
Going from consumer to producer to nothing.
Quitting goodreads… to join my own platform.
Writing is the most undervalued tool we all have access to.
A tweet-sized review of all 15 books I read this quarter.
The story of my handmade noodles and a journey towards disgust.
A lesson from a company, that I would otherwise loathe.
A look back at what I like, and dislike about my most popular project being a terminal speed reader.
I always find cross functional principles amusing.
Exposing myself to extreme success. Or maybe not.
The death of The Letter.
The mathematics of social media mind control (and the antidote?). What Hebbs figured out in the 1950s, Zuckerberg is abusing today.
Algebra of Udon Satisfaction, and a Bad Heuristic™.
A case for homeopathy, and the pain of tinnitus. I am not as obtuse as the title suggests.
Opaque Heuristics, Generative Art and going Interplanetary on Web3. Also, My grandparents would be proud of me.
Taleb, Failure, and the Notion Aesthetic 🤢
Five hundred minutes, and rabid development. January effect in full swing.
Pair programming, writing, and mental models. Sometimes, you are just worse than you think. Way worse.
I won’t call a spade a spade.
I am that guy now.
My history with comics.
That joe rogan money was hella well spent by the Spots.
I have been trying to use emacs for a while now. I really like the idea of the editor being something of an extendable IDE. Despite my eagerness to give it a shot, I have significantly been disappointed so far.
Disclaimer: I am no expert. My methodologies might be completely wrong and the inferences wronger. But I try