Ephemera

Noticing the little things

Tribes

We join them

Attending the Global AI Bootcamp in Helsinki

The value of diversity

The reason why I want to move my home on the world

A tale of four chat bots

We need to learn the technique in the beginning and then leave it behind

Don't think too much about the rules

Reading children’s books

They are so damn beautiful

What would you do without me?

Remarry (Bad jokes and me)

Just because you can do something does not mean you should

A writer's apocalypse approaches

Moving my home on the web

Everything you type in your iPhone could be used to train a digital you

Make more detailed notes

I want to share little ephemeral messages with my family

Like this picture of the skies I took while out on my walk

Organizing the things in our life

The value of knowing where things are

I voted for the first time in Finland

In the municipal + county elections of 2025

Elections in Finland

About the local elections

The three places where I noticed Apple Intelligence

Apple Intelligence comes to India (English)

Temu as a form of soft power

A realisation amidst assembling cheap stuff from Temu

Balancing new tech and its maintainance

All new technology needs to be tested out in the world

It does not matter how many times I do surya namaskar

I don’t need to count anymore

How would the web work in an increasingly AI-fied world

Boiling frogs and global warming

Duplicating everything

Stop re-doing everything

Be a hybrid

Have expertise in two or more things

A weird day

Something felt off

Re-designing my home screen and the way I use my phone

Focus modes + Shortcuts magic

The contexts in which I use my phone

Thinking about phone usage + productivity

Maybe we should not have connected

Mixing DS2, Mastodon and Fediverse

Ghost announces beginning of the public beta for the social web

Public beta for fediverse support is live now

Who are you?

You can’t make friendships happen

Good food takes time to prepare

Patience is a virtue

Providing customisation options to users is a great thing

Adventures in configuring tools to work better

Which iPad do I get in 2025?

About the state of the iPad lineup

Don’t call me a writer!

I hate the spotlight

Sit on the floor with your child and play

Spend time playing with your child

We are all addicted to our phones

And a few rules I have

How I use Obsidian

Notes on note-taking

About the Pareto principle

And the value of putting in the work

Warming up to LLMs

Using copilot to update my book page

Seeing it for the first time

Following Apple rumours

Spring already?

Walk a little

All work is creative

Things change when you become a parent

Life goes on

LLMs are being deployed in factories

How does that make you feel?

About Garbage

And how its our responsibility

Reading is better than watching movies

If it’s the same story

About reflections on writing

From people who have been doing this for many years

Savya-Sajal

Coalescing into my son

How the coffee breaks have changed

Answer: more time on phones

A year of mornings

Books by Sajal

About the marshmallow experiment

And the value of providing kids with a good environment growing up

Sync less, please?

About reading on NNW

Why work?

The myths of work

Some times we wait

For a thing to become what it must

The three types of code I write

slapdash, scrappy and production-grade

Some times

The last work left in this world

Train the models!

Should you pay for search?

Public services should be subsidised

Once upon a time, we almost lost everything

A story of a near victim of a cyber crime

Sleep well

Yoga helps you know your body

Designing a book

With a little bit of quirkiness

A week of AI news

Deepsek and the others

Why do I read more on the web

The phone, that’s the answer.

What a mess!

Living with a kid in a messy home

Embracing the light

Light mode / dark mode

I need to talk to more people, more often

And hear their stories

The two factors that allow services to be terrible

My WhatsApp story

The next four years are going to be a drag

Spent in dread

You can’t have one without the other

Actions and consequences

Parenting is full of contradictions

Sleep child, sleep!

The value of consistency

Discipline and repetition

I’ve become afraid of keeping thoughts in my head

The consequence of thinking while writing

How to complain

Or, how to make your boss's life easier

Meta will not do fact-checking anymore

Meta goes MAGA?

About glue work

Is glue work bad? Depends.

Would you enjoy killing more human NPCs?

Nvidia’s AI NPCs can become your allies

Sometimes all it takes is magic

Sometimes magic is working harder than imagined possible

I do not know what to do

Part #3 of what to do and how to post my damn links

I figured out what to do

How to write here

Rethinking what and how I write on this website

How to add a linkblog here and about how I categorise things

How to use habituation to your benefit

Recognise. Breaks in good. No breaks in bad.

Hard works trumps talent every time

Every damn time

Build a bridge to your corner of the web

Self host

When to write

When you're away from the keyboard

Two lessons on work

Show your work + Ask for help

Books I've read this year

16 - that's the number

Sitting and talking

a place to be less alone

Advanced civilisations could be indistinguishable from nature

A sustainable solution to the fermi paradox

How do I know if someone subscribed to me via RSS

Fans everywhere. Fans nowhere.

No pity for the bosses

Apps make everything legal

The net good or bad of AI

Balancing the perceived benefits against the harms

We don't own anything in this age of subscriptions

An accidents leads to a little peak behind the curtain

We can have a fun conversation with max four people

Shakespeare got it

Digital consumption does not let me do actual work

It affects my ability to focus and remember

The things we don't need

We should let those go, no?

Music can remind you of things

It can transport you, across time and space

Birthdays are funny

Another year around the sun! Yay!

Writing more vs less

Reducing vs habit

Notes on obsidian

Some things which do not work

Building furniture

A traditional Ikea holiday

Beating death

Living forever

Types of workers in an organisation

Or, evolution of the type of worker you are

Duo all the way

Learning (Playing?) on Duolingo

Why are there no small photo sharing apps

There is an opportunity here

Proprietary formats

A day spent copy pasting from Notes to Markdown

Love and Despair

Reading poems

Life everywhere

But not in the way you expect

Be positive

And not just in the abstract sense.

Trusting people to do the work they were hired to do

Curb micro-management

Where you do yoga matters

Or, the poisonous Delhi air sucks ass

Visiting the Ashokan Pillar in Vaishali

When to let go

Life withers away

Two places

Happy Diwali

Bimba

The art hut

how to blog

daily posts?

A tale of two airlines

Finnair good. SpiceJet shit.

Going home

To Delhi

The future of Kindle

More notes please!

Hopes and dreams for the fediverse

Interop everywhere

Look at the stars

Look at the sun

How to tell stories

Stories need to surprise

If you're stuck on something

Talk to someone

You're like a river

You flow

The problem with read-it-later apps

It feels like stripping character from the web

Keeping promises

Why walk the same path every day

Ignore the path

We don't want intelligence

We want slaves

Who will advocate for the future

Leave a better world than you found

The custodian for all human knowledge

AIs trained on the web make the web a worse place

Everything can teach us something

Help us grow

A world full of agents

Hey Siri fetch me a glass of water!

The stories we tell

Of a place and a time

Sing!

Go on!

Blue skies

Night skies

Professionals are consistent

They show up

Science fiction does not have to be dystopian in order to be interesting

More hope for the world

What is an iPhone

Answer - a computer

Linkin Park are back

The emptiness machine

Losing someone

It's hard

Everything in nature that is born, dies

Life is what happens in the middle

What are trails

But paths other have walked upon

The good people of Finland

About going to sell my phone and unexpected kindness

Hello from the puddle

Nature

The joy of reading

Books transport you

Notes from the new OS releases

iOS18 + MacOS15 + WatchOS11

Basics of typography

Good typography conveys emotion

Made you cry

That's the goal

Further thoughts on certifications and trainings

And marrying well

Original art

No art is original

Thoughts on iPhone day

2024 edition

Azure Admin Associate

I passed the AZ 104 on 3rd Sep

Missing home

Nord Letter #20 - What is home + Google is a monopolist

A day trip to Tampere

Nord Letter #19 - Tampere + foundations for a good life

Nature trails - Nuuksio and Pihlajasaari

Nord Letter #18 - Nature trails + Beating procrastination

How to handle dependencies in Bicep

Celebrating Annaprashan

Nord Letter #17 - Annaprashan + Global Crowdstrike outage

Colophon

What Now?

Nord Letter #16 - Better at Yoga + New phones

A case for being kinder to others

About Fundamental Attribution Error + Be kinder

Visit Porvoo

Nord Letter #15 - Day trip to Porvoo + a bit about fusion

We won!

Nord Letter #14 - World Cup win + lots of reading

Trek to Tallinn

Nord Letter #13 - Tallinn + bits around managing teams better

Yoga on Father's Day

Nord Letter #12 - Yoga celebration + WWDC announcements

Postcard from Oitta

Nord Letter #11 - Pristine waters at Oitta

A trip to IKEA

Nord Letter #10 - Visiting IKEA, a pilgrimage

Thoughts on AI

LLMs are AI models trained on the vast dataset of the internet. This allows them to predict, based on the earlier word, what is the most likeliest next word.

Oodi for all

Nord Letter #9 - Oodi + Toolo + Copilot PCs

Cherries all around

Nord Letter #8 - Folklore'24 + Roihuvuori Cherry Park + AI

Life happens + iPads galore

Nord Letter #7 - Meeting people + Food + iPads

Hyvä Vappu

Nord Letter #6 - Vappu + Costs of consumerism

Federating again

Nord Letter #5 - Ghost Activitypub + Information Flow

Spring is here

Nord Letter #4 - Communal spaces @Iso Omena library

Now

Home

Year One

Nord Letter #3 - I love you Prerna

I miss walking

Nord Letter #2 - Walking

Celebrating Sakraat in Finland

Nord Letter #1 - Celebrating Sakraat + What is art

#82 in an year of mornings

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Things that I think about

Why I feel like an impostor at times

Fiction takes time

Birth, death and everything in between

Where we love

What is a blog?

A day of firsts

Here's how I plan to beat my laziness

Life, Death & Priorities

Why places matter in a story

How I felt when my Jawbone broke

Who am I to you?

Let's talk!

Thoughts on self-hosting

What does it take to be a writer?

Post a day!

Are you tired of everything?

Are you afraid of dying?

Why standing still is scary

How it feels to finally finish that first draft

I hold you

It's funny!

Some numbers

Does setting a goal really help you?

What to say to someone who's feeling down

What if life were a game?

Why do you fight?

Why persistence matters

What is love?

Why happiness never seems to last

Why you should spend a little less time working

On writing : the numbers

Everything withers away

On s*x

On the competitive aspect of things

Letters to an imaginary girlfriend : Two

My muse

On emotions

On Killing

New year, new rules!

The second one

Fifty plus one

The hopeful human condition

On Honesty, Part-II

Letters to an imaginary girlfriend : One

On Honesty

On Possessions

On Tolerance

I'm back... again!

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The idea of being a writer

Progress

Intelligence

Why I decided to set a shipping date for my book

The Google or Windows dilemma

Let's sail!

Satisfaction

In search of 'Routine'

Children, and truth

All the motivation you need!

The therapeutic act of writing

The whorish aspect of things

The Human Connection

Something about nothing!

The journal

Michael Christie: Reading and exercise

Observations!

Incomplete

Anonymous

Life!

At work!

Do you remember?

Was

Coming Home!

Decisions decisions!

Something new!

Communication protocol

Who are you?

Universality

New Life: Ties, and cufflinks!

How important is grammar to a writer?

Writing about not writing

How democratic is our democracy?

FSoL: Happy!

Surprises, and good stories

Moving On

Moving On

FSoL: That's how we celebrate jobs!

We are all inspired!

The benefits of living with T1D

Five Seconds of Life: 1. The trip

What makes me happy?

I lost me

Why should I read?

Flow

Good Days, Bad Days

Why planning is important, but irrelevant

Poems

Dealing with the World Cup

Who'll fight my wars?

Why I do not write long stuff here!

Success/Failure

Title Matters. Really?

Calculations

Do what you want to!

Whatever you do, make sure that you are not doing what your father, mother or society wishes you to do because you don’t want to end up where you don’t want to be

Day TwentyFour: Sport

Day TwentyThree: Parallel

Day TwentyTwo: Parallel

Day TwentyOne: Sentinels of the Border

Day Twenty: Fog

Day Nineteen: People

Day Eighteen: Metro

Day Seventeen: Tarmac

Day Sixteen: In Death

Day Fifteen: Voice

Day Fourteen: The Hungry Man/Dog

Day Thirteen: Fall

Day Twelve: The Lord in the mountains

Day Eleven: Washed

Day Ten: Faces

Day Nine: Reflections

Day Eight: Martyrdom

Day Seven: Questions

Day Six: Green

Day Five: The Girl with the Bazooka

Day Four: The Transporter

Day Three: Spiderman

30-day Challenge

Day Two: The Lone Patch

Photography Challenge: Day One

Photographic memory

My first memories of being captured, on a photo film that is, consist of me being rushed to the terrace, followed by a change of clothes and a brief touch up, which is followed by introduction of two more kids almost the same age and then one of my brothers clicking the picture.

Writers are

Writers are magicians; and inventors of time machines, and a lot of other stuff too.

Happy New Year?

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.

No Pressure, Really!

The Perfect* Road Trip

Why I need to blog

A little something called Inertia

Phoneography challange: My Neighbourhood

Stolen mint

Daily Post: 1984 (Of Emptiness and Vastness)

Mistakes we make!

Nobody woke me up, I'm up any ways!

Wake me up, when November ends!

In your dreams!

The Gita, Religion and Dharma

What is the difference between Education & Knowledge?

How would you like your fiction served?

it's Teacher's Day!!

The Living Sounds

Zombie Land

Sorry!!

The Eye

The Ranchos and the Silencers

J&K- Territorial Problem or Causality Dilemma?

Control?

What is Justice?

Why do I like Shruti Hassan?