A long day,
Comes to an end soon.
New day begins.
Sajal Choudhary
I am a platform engineer and a writer based in Finland.
I am also the author of A Year of Mornings, a collection of poems for young adults.
NordLetter
I send out a newsletter once a week about living in Finland + five interesting things I've found on the open web.
Lately
Everything, as it happens — from the garden, the stream, the shelf, and the Nordletter.
October 2026
Strategies for Reading Long Things
For reading books, primarily. It’s a good idea to complete one chapter each day. I have read a few chapters right now from the book Inside the Box. Of course…
Working Memory Is a Hindrance to Learning
When learning something, if the subject material is unfamiliar then it is more difficult to learn, because you need to keep it in memory. And human memory is…
Chunking
Chunking refers to breaking a large piece of information into smaller manageable chunks so that it is easier to remember or work with. Chunking requires…
Bounding the New With the Familiar
Read about it in Inside the Box, but of course I’ve known of this idea from before. Like, when I wrote somewhere that, unimaginable is usually imaginable,…
Watch Apple’s reveal video for the HomeView by Jay Peters
The HomeView is a 7-inch square display. It costs $299 and comes in two versions: one that mounts to a wall, and another that sits atop a small speaker base. It can be used to show smart home controls, pull up information with Siri AI, take video calls, and show footage from HomeKit Secure Video cameras. It’s also a Matter controller and a Thread Border Router.
I watched the video. It’s cute. Watching it made me imagine this on our cute little kitchen table. And then I thought where would I put the charging cable.
Watching: The AI Doc
Daniel Roher, Charlie Tyrell
Yellow leaves everywhere,
Beneath my feet getting trampled,
Fluttering on trees.
Like home-work
I put my pen away
Close the diary.
Aloo Paratha on the tawa and Emran Hashmi on the HomePod is just a perfect start to a Sunday!
That's everything — you've reached the very beginning.