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Hi I’m Sajal, a writer, poet & walker.
I graduated from Delhi Technological University (DCE) in 2014.
I joined TCS as a Systems Engineer after graduation. I manage a team now. And the breadth of technologies I work on has also ballooned a bit. 😄
I moved to Finland in April, 2021.
I have lived in Helsinki, walked around the Toolo lake.
Then moved to Espoo, and continue living in Matinkyla. Walking around Matinkyla beach.
I have written at different places (couple of Wordpress sites) from around 2012. I have folded all of those stories, poems and essays under this site now.
What am I doing now?
See my now page.
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The Code
In your dreams!
Stolen mint
The Morality Factor
Daneel’s issue was with the scientific slowdown, the decline in the development of newer technologies or that’s how he illustrates his point. I on the other hand have my issues with the morality of the society, the civilization in large.
Photography Challenge: Day One
New Life: Ties, and cufflinks!
Something new!
Coming Home!
At work!
Observations!
On Possessions
The hopeful human condition
Letters to an imaginary girlfriend : Two
Why persistence matters
Does setting a goal really help you?
Life, Death & Priorities
A day of firsts
Why I feel like an impostor at times
Things that I think about
A couple of rasagullas
Black box thinking: The surprising truth about success - Matthew Syed
This book talks about failures, how we treat them citing examples from industries ranging from aviation, healthcare, coding, cycling teams.
Setup password less ssh
Linux Add path to $path
Kubernetes certificate expiry fix
Terraform use custom providers
Kubernets certificate expiry fix
Velero install
ESXi hosts showing out of sync with distributed switch
UCSM firmware upgrade
I miss walking
Nord Letter #2 - Walking
Spring is here
Nord Letter #4 - Communal spaces @Iso Omena library
Hyvä Vappu
Nord Letter #6 - Vappu + Costs of consumerism
Oodi for all
Nord Letter #9 - Oodi + Toolo + Copilot PCs
A trip to IKEA
Nord Letter #10 - Visiting IKEA, a pilgrimage
Postcard from Oitta
Nord Letter #11 - Pristine waters at Oitta
VMware find out when vmotion happened
Yoga on Father's Day
Nord Letter #12 - Yoga celebration + WWDC announcements
Trek to Tallinn
Nord Letter #13 - Tallinn + bits around managing teams better
We won!
Nord Letter #14 - World Cup win + lots of reading
Visit Porvoo
Nord Letter #15 - Day trip to Porvoo + a bit about fusion
What Now?
Nord Letter #16 - Better at Yoga + New phones
Celebrating Annaprashan
Nord Letter #17 - Annaprashan + Global Crowdstrike outage
Nature trails - Nuuksio and Pihlajasaari
Nord Letter #18 - Nature trails + Beating procrastination
A day trip to Tampere
Nord Letter #19 - Tampere + foundations for a good life
Missing home
Nord Letter #20 - What is home + Google is a monopolist
India Day
India Day + Reading the Egg
Ready or Not
Pixel Peeping + What is a photo
Glowtime
iPhone month is here + trees can heal you
Certified and it feels so good
Azure goals + Apple's DMA compliance
Notes from the new OS releases
iOS18 + MacOS15 + WatchOS11
Spectacular Solar Punk
iPhone reviews + reading becky chambers
The good people of Finland
About going to sell my phone and unexpected kindness
Losing someone
It's hard
Our place in the world
Linkin Park are back + what is our place in this world
What is an iPhone
Answer - a computer
Sing!
Go on!
Where are we going
More iPhone (camera) reviews + AI future
A head full of dreams
Writing every day + AI + Metaverse
Why walk the same path every day
Ignore the path
Of shinobis and reading
Visiting Restaurant Shinobi + Reading on devices and the web
Living with bindis
Going back home
Trip to India
Untitled
Diwali + Tips + New Macs
The human condition
Curing cancer + e-Vitara + President of the USA
Visiting the Ashokan Pillar in Vaishali
Good business
Buying old furniture from failed startups + POSSE
Where is home
The expat's dilemma + Social Web + Net News Wire
Where you do yoga matters
Or, the poisonous Delhi air sucks ass
Helsinki Christmas Market
Two fun videos + two business concepts + something about rats
Before and after
Sinitarra + who owns your words + Intel drama
Writing more vs less
Reducing vs habit
Becky Chambers - A closed and Common Orbit
The families we make
2 hopeful things + electric cars might last longer + the age of average + one more thing about AI
We can have a fun conversation with max four people
Shakespeare got it
Feels like Christmas
Delhi Rasoi + decaying internet + bad Spotify + solar probe
Sitting and talking
a place to be less alone
Becky Chambers - Record of a Spaceborn Few
The third book in the wayfarer series
Writing and publishing
Playing TT at Vox + Car makers merging + paper passports might die
Rethinking what and how I write on this website
How to add a linkblog here and about how I categorise things
A happy new year
Most things are still the same + AI roundups + good things that happened in 2024
Ice, Ice, baby!
Snow falls + Dark energy may not exist + why is American diet bad + kids can't use computers
Sakraat redux
Second year of celebrating Makar Sankranti in Finland + 2 things about social apps
You can’t have one without the other
Actions and consequences
What a mess!
Living with a kid in a messy home
Celebrating the Republic
Republic Day at the embassy + OpenAI announces Operator + Trumps first few orders + some life lessons
Why do I read more on the web
The phone, that’s the answer.
Good food, good life
Finland's PR changes + VPNs + Why are so many people wearing glasses now + a succinct take on AI
Once upon a time, we almost lost everything
A story of a near victim of a cyber crime
Preparedness Day
Fighting flu + smaller AI models + timeline apps
About the marshmallow experiment
And the value of providing kids with a good environment growing up
Books by Sajal
These are just poems
Week of love
Celebrating our second anniversary by having a date night at Classic Pizza
About Garbage
And how its our responsibility
About reflections on writing
From people who have been doing this for many years
Writing meet-ups
Shutup and write + 2 opposite views on where the society is going + save your attention
how does a city form
Kindle bad + AI poet + chip designer + good bye Finland
what matters to you
A year of mornings available everywhere now + EV for the masses + new Apple stuff
Good food takes time to prepare
Patience is a virtue
Holi redux
Playing Holi + Death Stranding 2 + black hole universe + some bad news in AI land
The contexts in which I use my phone
Thinking about phone usage + productivity
Re-designing my home screen and the way I use my phone
Focus modes + Shortcuts magic
The things we make
Apple rumours + Learn some AI python
Boiling frogs and global warming
My own writing Meetup
Happening on 6th April + smart homes suck as do smart TVs
Temu as a form of soft power
A realisation amidst assembling cheap stuff from Temu
Election time
Election stories + Apple AI is not a bust, AI is a bust + some things to change on your phone
I voted for the first time in Finland
In the municipal + county elections of 2025
Organizing the things in our life
The value of knowing where things are
I want to share little ephemeral messages with my family
Like this picture of the skies I took while out on my walk
Moving my home on the web
What would you do?
Teenagers + AI can be a partner + Meta doing Meta things + Love Death and Robots!
Reading children’s books
They are so damn beautiful