A Year of Mornings - Book Cover

Out now!

A Year of Mornings

A collection of fifty love poems that follows a young heart as it finds love, finds the strength to be in love and finally, finds the strength to let go.

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Sajal Choudhary

I am a platform engineer and a writer based in Finland.

I am the author of A Year of Mornings, a collection of poems for young adults.

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August 2026

I Saw the Future of AI in a Robot That Can Learn on the Spot by Will Knight

Generalist and some other robotics startups are investing heavily in a general robotic model trained by humans. The company builds special gloves resembling robot pincers that have cameras attached to them, which people then use to perform different chores. I saw a crate piled high with several hundred of these grippers destined for workers in Mexico and elsewhere.

Reading Dan Wang’s Breakneck. Waited a long time for this to be available.

It was a double rainbow kinda day. The pasta happened first though.

NL 118

Barcelona - No Plan

We are back from Barcelona! And I have some thoughts. The first thought I have is this - how do you write about (review?) a place? I have been to different places and I have tried to do this differently. Heck, for this…

Temperature Zero for Culture

The mode gets shown more, so it gets picked more, so the model grows more confident the mode is what people want, and the tails starve. Within a few dozen rounds, a catalogue that began almost perfectly even collapses onto one dominant option. But why does it collapse toward the mode rather than fan out across all that individual data?

I read about this article in Pluralistic’s blog. It felt timely, as just yesterday we were having the same discussion about how everything feels the same. About how all houses look the same from the inside, about how all AirBnBs are the same, about how all cars look the same and so on.