I am actually a DJ.
I have a confession. I am actually a DJ. And this is my story.
Thoughts, often unmarred by the burdens of proofreading
Tuesday night stray thoughts.
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.
The Contemporary Weavers.
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.
Rizz, money and technical brilliance.
A mildly amusing framework to predict success, or justify success.
The Prolificity Thesis
Death, taxes and my need to be pretentious on the internet.
It's fermentation season, bring out your glassware!
The art of taming micro-organisms for health and debauchery.
Permutations and Intersections.
It is indeed true that if you eat enough ghee every day, your customer acquisition cost reduces.
Year in review, part 1.
A retrospective, told in multiple parts.
An experiment.
Is physical writing the way forward for me?
My internet rules.
Or how to have a good time on the internet.
What is rewarding?
A venn diagram didn’t help.
The pursuit of physical crafts.
Despite my pudgy fingers.
Perspectives on value, and other pretentious early-career reflections.
A snapshot of my opinions, so I can laugh at them in 1 year.
My swelling debts and the elusive race condition, part six.
If programmers had a credit rating for their tech debt, they’d all be junk bonds.
Networking in distributed systems and humans, part five.
Coastal karnataka, and the curse of networking.
Ideas are worthless and semaphores are not, part four.
Mountains, semaphores and ideas.
My memoir, part three.
Toddy, tools and end sems.
My memoir, part one.
I will tell you what’s up.
The Art of Reading the News
You shouldn’t be reading the news. But if you really have to, this is how to do it.
The Cheddar Cheese
My loops are all messed up.
A Series of (mostly) Unfortunate Events.
I got vaccinated. Then I got covid. Then I got dengue.
The slump.
Going from consumer to producer to nothing.
Why I left Goodreads.
Quitting goodreads… to join my own platform.
In praise of writing.
Writing is the most undervalued tool we all have access to.
The 2021 Q1 book retrospective.
A tweet-sized review of all 15 books I read this quarter.
Udon Deal.
The story of my handmade noodles and a journey towards disgust.
The art of being Verbund.
A lesson from a company, that I would otherwise loathe.
My most popular side project.
A look back at what I like, and dislike about my most popular project being a terminal speed reader.
A programmer's life manifesto.
I always find cross functional principles amusing.
Barbelling my knowledge portfolio.
Exposing myself to extreme success. Or maybe not.
Letter Nine
The death of The Letter.
Letter Eight
The mathematics of social media mind control (and the antidote?). What Hebbs figured out in the 1950s, Zuckerberg is abusing today.
Letter Seven
Algebra of Udon Satisfaction, and a Bad Heuristic™.
Letter Six
A case for homeopathy, and the pain of tinnitus. I am not as obtuse as the title suggests.
Letter Five
Opaque Heuristics, Generative Art and going Interplanetary on Web3. Also, My grandparents would be proud of me.
Letter Four
Taleb, Failure, and the Notion Aesthetic 🤢
Letter Three
Five hundred minutes, and rabid development. January effect in full swing.
Letter Two
Pair programming, writing, and mental models. Sometimes, you are just worse than you think. Way worse.
Letter One
I won’t call a spade a spade.
My favourite reads in 2020.
I am that guy now.
Basically, a love letter to Bill.
My history with comics.
Spotify.
That joe rogan money was hella well spent by the Spots.
My disapointment with Emacs.
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.
How I lost my job, and other short stories.
Tales of layoffs, job search and redemption in the covid era.
Analysing Times Now and Republic TV twitter feeds.
Or how I scraped the web and did some amateur analysis.
Analysis of the r/India subeddit
Disclaimer: I am no expert. My methodologies might be completely wrong and the inferences wronger. But I try